Sea Fisheries (Fishing) Regulations, 1972 (L.N. No. 99 of 1971).

No vessels (except canoes) shall fish within the first two nautical miles of the waters of the Nigerian Continental Shelf (reg. 1). Regulation 2 prescribes minimum mesh size of codend used by trawlers fishing for fish in inshore waters or shrimps in approved areas for shrimp. No shrimp trawling is permitted in the inshore water of the Lagos-west fishing grounds. Regulation 4 provides for the prohibition of dumping of edible and marketable sea products by shrimp trawlers and the export of such products. "Inshore waters" is defined as "that part of the Continental Shelf with depth not more than 50 metres (27 fathoms)".