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The Mercantile Marine Act, 1955 is amended with respect to matters relating to persons qualified to own registered sea fishing ships. The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 is amended so as to give the Minister for the Marine the power to make regulations for carrying into effect and enforcing the entry of fishing boats in the fishing boat register, and any convention with a foreign country relative to the registry, lettering and numbering of fishing. Also the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 is ame
An Act to make further provision for sea and freshwater fishing and for that purpose to amend and extend the Fisheries Acts, 1959 to 1991, and for registering and licensing fishing vessels, and for related matters.