President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued a Provisional Measure that tightens the rules for granting the fishing ban insurance to fishermen, including the requirement for biometric registration of beneficiaries. Furthermore, fishermen will not be able to be receiving another continuous social security or welfare benefit - except for death pension, accident aid, and income transfers. "Only professional fishermen who prove domicile in a municipality covered or bordering the area defined in the act that established the fishing ban period, in accordance with the procedures and criteria established in a resolution of the Deliberative Council of the Workers' Support Fund (Codefat), will be entitled to the benefit," says the text published in the . The government will also require fishermen to provide copies of the fiscal documents of fish sales to the acquiring company, consumer, or consignee of the production, which must include the record of the operation carried out and the value of ...