Fisheries Act, 2002 (as amended) 🇬🇭

Ghana Repealed: 2025-08-14

Amendments

2014-12-12Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 2014

Repeal Notice

This legislation was repealed on 2025-08-14 by Fisheries and Aquaculture Act, 2025

Republic of Ghana

The six hundred and twenty-fifth

Act

of the parliament of the republic of ghana

entitled

Fisheries Act, 2002 (as amended)

Published by Government Gazette on 17 May 2002
Assented to on 16 January 2002
Commenced on 17 May 2002

[Amended by Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 2014 (Act 880 of 2014) on 12 December 2014]
[Repealed on 14 August 2025 by Fisheries and Aquaculture Act, 2025 (Act 1146 of 2025)]

AN ACT to consolidate with amendments the law on fisheries, to provide for the regulation and management of fisheries, for the development of the fishing industry and the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources and for related matters.

Part I – The Establishment of the Commission

1. Establishment of the Fisheries Commission

(1)There is established by this Act a Fisheries Commission.

(2)The Commission is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

(3)The Commission may, for the performance of its functions, acquire and hold mo…

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