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This Act amends existing fishing legislation by: (a) restricting fishing of certain fishing boats registered under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 or the Mercantile Marine Act, 1955; (b) empowering the Minister to make regulations requiring sea-fishing boats to comply with certain conditions under the Fisheries Acts; (c) empowering the Minister, under the Fisheries Acts to prescribe or adopt, by Order, the measures of conservation of fish stocks and measures of rational exploitation of fisheries
An Act to make further provision as regards sea-fishing and for that purpose to amend and extend the Fisheries acts, 1959 to 1980, and to make certain provisions regarding registration under the Mercantile Marine Act, 1955, and entry in the fishing boat r