Marine Products (Fisheries) (Amendment) Rules 1976

S.I. No. 48 of 1976 THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES ACT (Ch. 25) THE MARINE PRODUCTS (FISHERIES) (AMENDMENT) RULES, 1976 In exercise of the powers conferred upon the Minister by section 5 of The Agriculture and Fisheries Act and all other powers thereunto enabling, the following Rules are hereby made 1. These Rules may be cited as The Marine Products (Fisheries) (Amendment) Rules, 1976 and shall be read and construed as one with The Marine Products (Fisheries) Rules, (hereinafter referred to as the principal Rules). 2. The principal Rules are amended by inserting immediately after rule 10, the following as new rule l0A "Taking etc. or ee11-bearin11 crawrish prohi!Jited. 22 March, 1976. lOA.-(1) No person shall fish for, take, capture, destroy or kill any egg-bearing crawfish. (2) Any person having egg-bearing crawfish in any trap or other device used for the purpose of crawfish trapping shall immediately return them to the water alive and unharmed. (3) No person shall cllp or otherwise remove the eggs from an egg-bearing crawfish. (4) No person shall have in his possession, sell, expose or offer for sale any egg-bearing crawfish or any crawflsh from which eggs have been clipped or otherwise removed.". ANTHONY ROBERTS Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Local Government Citation and construction. S.I. Vol. I p. S75. lnse.-ts. new r\:le lOA in principal Rules.