FISHERIES CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 66:05
FISHERIES CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
ADMINISTRATION

    3.    Director of Fisheries and fisheries protection officers

    4.    Honorary fisheries officers

    5.    Fisheries Advisory Board

    6.    Functions of the Board

PART III
LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

    7.    Purposes of this Part

    8.    Fisheries management agreement

    9.    Minister may make rules

PART IV
REGISTRATION OF LOCAL REGISTRABLE FISHING VESSELS

    10.    Registration of registrable local fishing vessels

    11.    Control of fishing by registrable local fishing vessels

PART V
FOREIGN FISHING VESSELS

    12.    Fishing by foreign fishing vessels prohibited without a licence

    13.    Notification of fish on board by foreign fishing vessels entering fishing waters

PART VI
FISHING LICENCES, CONDITIONS AND OTHERS CONTROLS

    14.    Prohibition of commercial fishing without a licence

    15.    Grant of fishing licences and conditions relating thereto

    16.    Illegal holding of fish

    17.    Stowage of gear

    18.    Transhipment and export of fish

PART VII
SPECIAL, ARRANGEMENTS

    19.    Fisheries research permits, etc.

PART VIII
AQUACULTURE

    20.    Establishment and operation of aquaculture establishment

    21.    Aquaculture permits

PART IX
FISHERIES FUND

    22.    Establishment of Fisheries Fund

    23.    Fund to vest in Minister

    24.    Advances to the Fund

    25.    Objects of the Fund

    26.    Application of the Fund

    27.    Books and other records of account, audit and reports of the Fund

    28.    Holdings of the Fund

    29.    Financial year

PART X
ENFORCEMENT

    30.    General powers of fisheries protection officers relating to fishing vessels

    31.    Powers of inspection

    32.    Powers of search, seizure, demolition and arrest

    33.    Warrant to enter a dwelling place

    34.    Fisheries protection officer to give receipt

    35.    Control of weirs

    36.    Powers of fisheries protection officers and convention fisheries officers to enforce conventions

    37.    Indemnity

    38.    Security for release of fishing vessel

    39.    Disposal of seized fish and other perishables

    40.    Persons arrested, etc., to be brought before Court

PART XI
PROHIBITIONS AND OFFENCES

    41.    Prohibition of transfer, etc., of fish

    42.    Prohibited fishing methods

    43.    Pollution, etc., of rivers, streams, lakes or other parts of the fishing waters

    44.    Obstruction, etc., of fisheries protection officers

    45.    Offences, penalties and proceedings

PART XII
COURT PROCEEDINGS, ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS AND PENALTIES

    46.    Jurisdiction of magistrates courts

    47.    Convention offences

    48.    Liability of members of companies, etc.

    49.    Forfeiture of licence, permit or registration

    50.    Administrative penalties

    51.    Detention or forfeiture of fishing vessel on failure to pay fine

PART XIII
INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION IN FISHERIES

    52.    Fisheries access agreements

    53.    Cross-border management

    54.    Regional fora

    55.    Implementation of agreements

PART XIV
MISCELLANEOUS

    56.    Applications, fees and charges

    57.    Suspension or cancellation of registrations, licences or permits

    58.    Appeals against suspension, cancellation or variation of registrations, licences or permits

    59.    Fishing districts and district fees

    60.    Statistical information

    61.    Regulations

    62.    Repeal and Savings

    63.    Transitional

25 of 1997
G.N. 77/1997

    An Act to make provision for the regulation, conservation and management of the fisheries of Malawi and for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “aquaculture establishment” means any area, enclosure, impoundment, premise or structure set up or used on or in land or water for the cultivation of freshwater fish and includes any cage or raft or other structure used for the cultivation of fish;

    “Board” means the Fisheries Advisory Board established under section 5;

    “commercial fisherman” means—

    (a)    in the case of an individual, a person who is engaged or intends to engage in fishing for sale throughout the year or a specified season or part of a season each year and who relies on his fishing activities for part of his income; or

    (b)    in the case of a corporate body or association of persons, one that has an appreciable investment in the fishing industry or intends to make one;

    “commercial fishing” means, taking fish for sale;

    “convention” includes a treaty, agreement or other arrangement;

    “convention area” means, in relation to any bilateral or multilateral convention, the area to which the convention relates;

    “convention fisheries officer” means a person appointed by the government of another country to enforce, or having power under the laws of another country to enforce, a convention that provides for the safeguarding or conduct of fishing operations or operations ancillary thereto to which Malawi is a party;

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