Overview of sustainable fisheries

Sustainable fisheries was Act 16 u.s.c. 1801 in 1996 to provide legal protection for fish, who was rare passing overfishing, or were already scarce overfishing. The law is also known as the "change of the conservation of fisheries Magnuson and Management Act, 1996" or "Magnuson-Stevens Act." Sustainable fisheries law sets the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) responsible for the implementation of new legislation. IntroductionSections 101 and 102 introduce sustainable fisheries. Section 101 briefly describes the purpose of the Act is to protect overexploited stocks. "" "" The terms defined in section 102 keys used in the law, such as "" essential fish habitat "," individual fishing quotas, "" overexploited"and"overfishing.""International IssuesSections 103 and 104 of sustainable fisheries, to amend the Magnuson fishery conservation and management measures, a certain number of questions around the migratory fish and the international treaties to clarify for fishing. See the topics in these sections are fishing in the Atlantic and Pacific International; Water fishing in the Bering Sea, together with the Russian Federation. and the rules for determining time on the approval of the international Fischereigrenzen Congress treaties.Regional Fisheries of management CouncilsSections 106 112 create a series of regional councils of fisheries, designed, to promote more localized control of fisheries. These sections define national standards, delegate the regulatory powers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and file describing the authority of the Member States for managing the State fisheries.Penalties and EnforcementSections 113 to 115 of sustainable fisheries acts change list banned in the Magnuson fishery conservation and (d) e management gehöother regulations to prohibit of certain types of equipment used in the lobster fishery. These sections also civil and criminal penalties for persons who violate bans against the law and give you the necessity of cooperation between the Federal Government and the local fisheries, the sustainable 116 to 406 Fisheries Act prohibitions.ResearchSections inside ensure research necessary to implement the law. These sections specify the agencies responsible for research and the type of research carried out in each of the specific fishing zones number including the Atlantic and Pacific and the Bering Sea.