Sub-Decree No. 25 (RGC) on management of fishing communities.

This Sub-Decree determines rules and procedures for establishing and managing fishing communities across the Kingdom of Cambodia.
The Sub-Decree consists of 10 Chapters divided into 33 articles: General provisions (1); Establishment of fishing communities (2); Roles, duties and rights of fishing communities (3); Commission of fishing communities (4); Responsible institution (5); Agreement on fishing community sites (6); Management plan of fishing community sites (7); Financial resources (8); Penal provisions (9); and Final provisions (10).
The aims of this Sub-Decree shall include: to manage non-salt water fishing boundaries, family scale fishing sites, reserved fishing sites, flooded areas during the flood season, flood forests and inundated forests, and coastal fishing areas; to manage fishery resources; to make people aware of and clearly recognize the interest and importance of fishery resources through direct participation, management, use and protection of fishery resources; and to promote living conditions of Cambodian people to be able to contribute to the reduction of poverty.
Community fishing sites shall be State public property. Any Cambodian citizen may establish a fishing community and participate in the management, conservation, development and utilization of sustainable fishery resources. Fisheries Administration and local authorities shall cooperate to establish these fishing communities which shall possess their own statutes, internal regulations, management plan and map of community fishing sites in accordance with the provisions of this Sub-Decree.