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MDV-1987-R-105998
Breadcrumb
Title_of_text
General Fisheries Regulations.
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Maldives
Subjects (Classification)
Fishers
Adopted on (Date of text)
1987
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
These Regulations provide selected rules relative to marine fisheries in The Maldives. No Maldivian vessel shall fish beyond Maldivian waters except after obtaining approval from the Ministry. Any party desiring to fish, process or export fish products shall obtain the approval of the Ministry prior to the commencement of such business. The Regulations impose certain restrictions on reef fishing. They also place restrictions on the use of gear, ban the fishing for sharks for a ten-year period and prohibit the catching, fishing, collecting or killing within the Exclusive Economic Zone of dolphins, whales, female lobsters carrying eggs and certain species of clams, sharks and turtles and regulate the use of Fish Aggregating Devices.
Basic Text region
Basic text(s)
1987 (MDV-1987-L-85777)
Fisheries Act of Maldives, 1987 (Act No. 5/87).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line
Author
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, FAOLEX
URL
http://www.fao.org/faolex/
File
MDV105998.pdf (PDF of Unofficial English Translation)