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Annex 2:
LIST OF LEGISLATION

(Principal fisheries management Acts currently in force are shown in bold)

New Zealand

Fisheries Act 1983, as amended from time to time,
principally by:

Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1986
Maori Fisheries Act 1989
Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1990
Fisheries (Amendment) Act No. 1991
Treaty of Waitangi (Fisheries Claims) Settlement Act 1992
Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1992

Fisheries Act 1996

Australia

Commonwealth

Fisheries Act 1952 (repealed)
Fisheries Management Act 1991
Fisheries Administration Act 1991 also:

Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973
Coastal Powers (State Powers) Act 1980
Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980

New South Wales

Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935
Fisheries Management Act 1994

Northern Territory

Fisheries Act (1988)

Queensland

Fisheries Act 1976 (repealed)
Fishing Industry Organisation and Marketing Act 1982 (repealed)
Fisheries Act 1994

South Australia

Fisheries Act 1982

Tasmania

Fisheries Act 1959 (repealed)
Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995

Victoria

Fisheries Act 1968 (repealed)
Fisheries Act 1995

Western Australia

Fisheries Act 1905
Fish Resources Management Act 1994

Iceland

Act Regarding the Management of Fisheries 1990

USA

Submerged Lands Act 1953
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act 1980
as amended by the Sustainable Fisheries Act 1996

Canada

Resources Transfer Act of 1930
Fisheries Act of 1985

Manitoba

Fisheries Act of 1987
Sea Fisheries Act 1988 (repealed)
Marine Living Resources Act 1998

Namibia

Sea Fisheries Act 1992
Marine Resources Act, 2001


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