date:Sep 06, 2012
The new Offshore Fisheries Decree expected to be gazetted later this year is slated to address gaps in the current Fisheries Act and Marine Spaces Act.
The decree is expected to be gazetted later this year while two other decrees, the Aquaculture and Inshore decrees are also in the process of being formulated, reports FijiTimes.
Speaking at a SeaWeb Sea series lecture, fisheries officer Alitia Bainivalu said the Fisheries Act had last been reviewed in 1985 and needed to be modernised.
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