Decree No. 12-A/80 regulating Fishing activity in the Angolan Exclusive Fishing Zone.

This Decree establishes that the People's Republic of Angola shall exercise sovereign rights over exploring, conserving, managing and exploiting the natural, biological marine resources. These sovereign rights cover areas of the high seas adjacent to the national territory, up to a distance of 200 nautical miles. This is measured from the legally established baselines, as well as the sedentary species of the continental shelf.
1. In the areas defined in the preceding article, it shall be unlawful for foreign vessels to fish, prepare to fish, commit acts prejudicial to fishing or damage or destroy fishing gear legally installed in the sea.
2. For the purposes of this Decree, vessels anchoring, mooring, stopping or hovering in a fishing area, (except for reasons of force majeure), or showing signs of having recently used their fishing gear, shall be deemed to be preparing to fish.
3. For the purposes of this Decree, churning up the waters, employing any other processes to frighten fish, or resorting to any manoeuvre or method likely to prejudice fishing shall be deemed to constitute acts prejudicial to fishing.
The Minister of Fisheries shall be responsible for determining which foreign vessels are authorized to fish in the areas defined in article 1 by means of the granting of fishing licences. The requirements to be satisfied for obtaining such licence are specified in the text.
The shipowner, captain, master or skipper of a foreign vessel which is fishing, or preparing to fish in the areas defined in article 1 without due authorization or which is fishing or preparing to fish in an area, for a species or by a fishing method for which it has no authorization, or which is engaged in acts prejudicial to fishing, shall forfeit to the State all the catch on board, as well as its fishing tackle. It shall also be liable to a fine of Kz 6.000,000 plus an additional Kz 50,000 per ton gross weight.
The amount of the fine shall be doubled: (a) when the violation takes place within the territorial seas of the People's Republic of Angola; (b) in the case of recurrent violations.