Fisheries act uganda pdf

Schedule Currency Point.

CHAPTER 197
FISH ACT.

Commencement: 1 April, 1951.

An Act to make provision for the control of fishing, the conservation of fish, the purchase, sale, marketing and processing of fish, and matters connected therewith.

(1) This Act shall not apply to—

(b) any vessel belonging to or being used by or on behalf of the Government so long as the vessel is on fisheries duty and is being used in the course of that duty;

(2) The Minister may, by statutory order, declare that all or any specific provisions of this Act relating to licences and the need therefor shall not apply to any area or waters of Uganda.

(3) The Minister may, in his or her discretion, exempt any person or persons from all or any of the provisions of this Act either generally or in respect of any particular area or waters.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

(a) "aircraft" includes an airship or any other description of aircraft;

(b) "angling" means fishing for pleasure with a single rod, reel or line where any fish caught are not intended for sale or barter;

(c) "appliance" means any snare, noose, harpoon, spear, contrivance or device not otherwise defined hereunder for the purpose of capturing, killing, injuring, snaring or trapping fish;

(d) "aquarium" means a tank containing water for the housing and study of fish;

(e) "authorised licensing officer" means any officer authorised in writing by the chief fisheries officer to issue licences under this Act;

(f) "authorised officer" includes a fisheries officer, a chief magistrate, a magistrate of any grade, a police officer of or above the rank of corporal or any employee of the fisheries department authorised in writing in that behalf by the chief fisheries officer;

(g) "basket" means any papyrus, reed, wicker, wire fibre, man-made fibre, or plastic basket trap employed in the capture of fish;

(h) "chief fisheries officer" means the officer for the time being in charge of the fisheries department;

(ha) "currency point" means the value of a currency point specified in Schedule 1;

(i) "dam" means any accumulation or expanse of water which has been created by artificial means by the Government, or the administration of a district, for the use of the local population;

(j) "dried fish" means any form of dehydrated fish, and includes sun-dried, salted and smoked fish;

(k) "engine" means any internal combustion engine driven by petrol and oil mixture, petrol, diesel, or paraffin oil and includes stationary, marine, inboard or outboard engine;

(l) "fish" means any vertebrate fish alive or dead and any part thereof, and includes the young and eggs;

(m) "fisheries officer" includes chief fisheries officer, senior fisheries officer, fisheries development officer, assistant fisheries officer and an honorary fisheries officer;

(n) "fish pond" means any accumulation or expanse of water which is erected by artificial means for the express purpose of fish culture, fish farming or fish breeding;

(o) "fish product" means any derivative of any fish other than dried fish, and includes frozen or chilled fish;

(p) "gill net" or "set net" means a net which is hung in the water and fixed in position or floating into which fish swim and become entangled;

(q) "hand line" means a fishing line not fixed in position but worked by hand without a rod;

(r) "immature", in relation to a species of fish, means that it is of a length less than such as may from time to time be notified by the chief fisheries officer by statutory instrument, either generally or in respect of any specified area;

(s) "interior overall length" means the length measured from the interior topside of the stempost to the interior topside of the transom or sternpost of a vessel;

(t) "land" includes land covered with water;

(u) "licence" means a licence issued under Part III of this Act;

(v) "long line" means a fishing line to which numbers of hooks, baited or otherwise, are attached at intervals and which is hung in water in a fixed position;

(w) "marketing" means sale to the public;

(x) "mesh" means the opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net and is measured when wet and stretched, the measurement referred to being the sum of two sides of the mesh;

(y) "net" means a net that may be used to fish;

(z) "private waters" means any accumulation or expanse of water created by artificial or natural means the rights in the waters of which are not reserved in the Government;

(aa) "processing" means curing by smoking, drying, salting or other method, whether similar to the foregoing or not, so as to preserve fish;

(bb) "prohibited method" means any method other than the use of a net in relation to the catching of fish which may be prescribed as such;

(cc) "prohibited net" means any net the mesh of which is of less dimension than that prescribed in relation to any fish or to any waters of Uganda or to both such fish and such waters or any net which may be prescribed as a prohibited net;

(dd) "prohibited place" means any prescribed place in the waters of Uganda in which it is an offence to take, kill or injure any fish;

(ee) "sale" and "sell" include ex

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