Sea Fisheries Act, 1992 🇳🇬

Nigeria

Sea Fisheries Act, 1992

Commenced on 30 November 1992
[This is the version of this document from 30 November 1992.]
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An Act to provide for the control, regulation and protection of sea fisheries in the territorial waters of Nigeria.

1. Licensing of motor fishing boats

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, no person shall operate or navigate any motor fishing boat for the purpose of fishing or a reefer vessel for the purpose of discharging frozen fish within the territorial waters of Nigeria or its exclusive economic zone, unless that boat or reefer vessel has been duly registered and licensed.

(2)Any person operating or navigating or causing to be operated or navigated a motor fishing boat or a reefer vessel in contravention of subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and on conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for five years or to a fine of $250.…

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