# Fisheries Act 1981, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

An Act to establish a Sea Fish Industry Authority with the duty of promoting the efficiency of the sea fish industry in the United Kingdom; to provide financial assistance for that industry; to amend the law relating to the regulation of sea fishing; to make new provision in relation to fish farming; to amend the enactments relating to whales and the importation of live fish; to extend sections 6 and 7 of the Freshwater and Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1976 to the part of the River Tweed outside Scotland; to repeal section 5(3) of the Fishery Board (Scotland) Act 1882; and to enable the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland to incur expenditure on fishery protection in waters adjacent to Northern Ireland.
[2nd July 1981]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/29/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-1981/introduction
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