Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 1999
Public bill · Government · Presented
Reforms the Central and Regional Fisheries Boards, giving them clearer duties, stronger financial oversight and greater attention to sustainability, while requiring balanced representation and allowing ministerial direction. It establishes a National Salmon Commission and a tagging scheme for wild salmon and sea trout, updates fisheries co-operatives and marine administration, waives certain An Bord Iascaigh Mhara interest, and changes Carlingford’s fisheries boundary.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1980 in relation to the composition and functions of the Central Fisheries Board and Regional Fisheries Boards, to make certain changes to their procedures, to provide for the establishment of their committees, to provide for the transfer of assets between the Boards, to provide for the establishment of a National Salmon Commission to advise the Minister on matters relating to the National Salmon Resource, to provide for a scheme for the tagging of wild salmon and sea trout, to amend the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991 to provide for the appointment of management committees of Fisheries Co-Operative Societies and for related purposes, to make consequential amendments to the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959, to amend the Marine Institute Act, 1991, to waive the payment of accrued interest on certain waived advances of An Bord Iascaigh Mhara, and to provide for related matters
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- Minister for Marine and Natural Resources Primary
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- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Order for Report Stage. Dáil
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Report and Final Stages. Dáil
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Second Stage. Seanad
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Committee Stage. Seanad
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages. Seanad
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Motion for Earlier Signature. Seanad
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Committee Stage. SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Message from Select Committee. Dáil
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Order for Second Stage. Dáil
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Second Stage. Dáil
- Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1999: Referral to Select Committee. Dáil