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    "id": 555182,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Muzee",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2225,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kazungu Muzee",
        "slug": "daniel-kazungu-muzee"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I just had to get a chance to speak to this very important Bill, because, as you know, we border the Indian Ocean and fishing is a very big activity in my constituency, apart from tourism and farming. I look at this as a very important Bill, which I support. A lot of good points have been presented here; they were crucial. Our focus - I am glad that we will have a board here which will do that - should be empowering the fishermen either individually or as groups, so that they can be doing a good job of fishing. A lot of the complaints you hear are that you have people who are fishermen, and who want to do a good job, but because of lack of facilities, they are made to fish just around the shallow areas, which means they cannot get as much fish as they could. That is very important. We need to find a way, and the board will have a very tough job, to ensure that our fishermen are empowered through accessing facilities, so that they can acquire state-of-the-art equipment to do proper fishing and abandon the old way of fishing. That is really crucial. Also equally important, as I think this Bill is very comprehensive, is the fact that there is a focus on data information. Let us face it, today, fishing is not the way it was done a couple of centuries ago. We need to be very clear on our numbers, quantities and market, so that real time data becomes very important whenever it is needed. I am glad that my colleague from Kwanza spoke on the issue of vessels from other countries getting into our international waters, doing a lot of fishing and depleting our capacity. This has to stop. We know we have friendly nations which do large-scale fishing in our waters, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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