Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1999 (No. 35 of 1999).
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Abstract
This Act concerns various matters regarding fisheries conservation and management bodies and other matters regarding the protection of fish and in particular salmon. The National Salmon Commission shall be to assist and advise the Minister in relation to the conservation, management, protection and development of the national salmon resource and, in particular, to make recommendations to the Minister on any scheme in relation to the management, development and conservation of stocks of wild salmon or sea trout and in particular the tagging of such fish, and on the setting of a national total allowable catch and quotas for the taking of salmon, in consultation with the boards and the Marine Institute and such other bodies as the Minister directs.
The Minister may, after consultation with the National Salmon Commission, make regulations to provide for a scheme for the management, development and conservation of stocks of wild salmon and sea trout and in particular to provide for the gathering of information by the tagging of such fish.
The Minister may, after consultation with the National Salmon Commission, make regulations to provide for a scheme for the management, development and conservation of stocks of wild salmon and sea trout and in particular to provide for the gathering of information by the tagging of such fish.
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An Act to amend the Fisheries Act, 1980, in relation to the composition and functions of the Central Fisheries Board and Regional Fisheries Boards, to make certain changes to their procedures, to provide for the establishment of their committees, to provide for the transfer of assets between the boards, to provide for the establishment of a National Salmon Commission to advise the minister on matters relating to the national salmon resource, to provide for a scheme for the tagging of wild salmon and sea trout, to amend the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991, to provide for the appointment of management committees of fisheries cooperative societies and for related purposes, to make consequential amendments to the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959, to amend the Marine Institute Act, 1991, to waive the payment of accrued interest on certain waived advances of An Bord Iascaigh Mhara, and to provide for related matters.
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