Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 (Act No. 18 of 1998)Chapter 3 : Management of Marine Living ResourcesPart 4 : General Local Matters24. Reduction of rights |
The Minister may in respect of any fishery, determine, after consultation with the Forum, that the portions of the total allowable catch, the total applied effort, or a combination thereof, allocated in any year to small-scale, local commercial and foreign fishing, and rights granted in respect thereof, shall be reduced.
[Section 24 substituted by section 6 of Act No. 5 of 2014]