Act on Preservation and Control of Living Marine Resources (Act No. 77 of 1996).

The purpose of this Act is to preserve and control the living marine resources in Japan's exclusive economic zone, in coordination with the measures taken under the Fishery Act (Act No. 267 of 1949) and the Marine Resources Protection Act (No. 313 of 1951), as well as to ensure the appropriate implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for thereby contributing to the development of fisheries and the stable supply of aquatic products, by establishing a plan for the preservation and control of living marine resources in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone and by taking the required measures to control the fish catch and the fishing effort. The text consists of 252 articles.
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries shall establish a basic plan on the preservation and control of living marine resources for preserving and controlling living marine resources in the exclusive economic zone, etc. The Basic Plan shall prescribe the following matters: (i) Basic policy concerning the preservation and control of living marine resources; (ii) Matters concerning the trends in each of the specified living marine resources; (iii) Matters concerning the total allowable catch of each Class I specified living marine resources; (iv) Matters concerning the quantities of the total allowable catch under the preceding item for each category of fisheries from among designated fisheries as provided in paragraph (1) of Article 52 of the Fishery Act, fisheries requiring an action such as permission from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries pursuant to Ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries based on the provisions of article 65 of the same Act, or Article 4 of Aquatic Resource Protection Act, and fisheries as provided in any other Ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.