Requests Full Compliance in 2026
The Acting Director General of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority, NaFAA J. Cyrus Saygbe Sr, has announced that only Fishermen in compliance in 2025 will be eligible to fishing during the 2026 fishing season.
“If you as a fisherman does not have the 2025 fishing receipt, you will not be allowed to register in 2026,” a NaFAA press release quotes Mr. Saygbe.
Addressing a huge crowd of fishermen and fishmongers in Harper City, Maryland County Tuesday December 16,2026, Mr. Saygbe stated that the government of Liberia through the fisheries Authority will permit fishermen who have made payments in 2025 to fish in 2025.
“Fishermen who pay in 2025 will be allowed to register for 2926 fishing season because they show their receipts.
Those will not pay their fishing license fees in 2025 will not be in the position to display their receipts. So now is the time for them to settle their records with the government of Liberia through NaFAA”.
At, the same time, Mr. Announced that the reduction in the fishing license fees previously by president Joseph Boakai is intended to afford fishermen the opportunity to comply in the payment of their fishing license fees without the government running after them.
“Now is the time for you the fishermen across the nine Coastal counties to pay your fees because president Joseph Boakai has announced a drastic reduction”.
Moreover, Mr. Saygbe informed the Fishermen and Fishmongers that NaFAA will ensure that their payments in 2026 will not go into the hands of ordinary Staff of the fisheries Authority rather only designate Staff who will be issued ‘green letter of authorization.
“Those that will be collecting fishing license fees from across the coastal communities are those you will see with green letters with my signature”
In a related development, the NaFAA Acting Director General disclosed that the fisheries Authority Tuesday officially Secured the land deeds to the proposal Regional office which will be constructed with support from the World Bank under the Liberia Sustainable Management of Fisheries project managed by the Liberian Fisheries Authority, NaFAA.
He disclosed that the construction of the Regional office will take place early 2026.
NaFAA’s South Eastern delegation early Tuesday visited the Regional fisheries office site at which time, Mr. Saygbe assured that the funds for the construction of offices, including a Fisheries Monitoring Center among others will come from the World Bank.