Government Fisheries (Protection) Ordinance, 1959 (E.P. Ordinance No. XXIV of 1959).

The Ordinance aims at preventing unauthorized fishing in fisheries belonging to, or managed and controlled by the Government.
The Ordinance is divided into 10 sections: 1) Short title, extent and commencement; 2) Definitions; 3) Declaration of a fishery to be a khas managed fishery; 4) Bar to unauthorized fishing in khas managed fisheries; 5) Carrying of valid licence of fishing and production of the same; 6) Bar to unauthorized fishing in other fisheries; 7) Authorization by Government to question illegal fishing; 8) Exemption; 9) Penal clauses; 10) Rule making power.