Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 (Act No. 18 of 1998)

Chapter 3 : Management of Marine Living Resources

(1)	If an emergency occurs that endangers or may endanger stocks of fish or aquatic life, or any species or class of fish or aquatic life in any fishery or part of a fishery, the Minister may —

(a)	suspend all or any of the fishing in that fishery or any specified part of it;

(b)	restrict the number of fishing vessels fishing in that fishery; or

(c)	restrict the mass of fish which may be taken from that fishery.

(2)	The particulars of any measures taken in terms of this section shall be made known by notice in the Gazette and in any other appropriate manner.