Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute Act, 2016 (No. 11 of 2016).

This Act continues the Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI) as a body corporate and provides with respect to its functions, powers, administration, etc. The Act also establishes the Fisheries Research Development Fund. There shall be Fisheries and Aquaculture Research centres to be controlled and managed by the Institute. The centres are specified in the First Schedule to this Act. Research on Fisheries and Aquaculture carried out by the Institute shall focus on various areas including, among other things: fish farming and processing technologies, aquatic invasive alien and endangered species, climate variability and climate change economics, resistance and resilience of aquatic organisms, critical habitats, and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.