Inland Fisheries Bill 2009

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Inland Fisheries Bill 2009 would create a single national body, Inland Fisheries Ireland, replacing the Central Fisheries Board and seven regional boards. It would give the new body responsibility for protecting, managing and improving inland fisheries and sea angling, while absorbing the functions of the National Salmon Commission and eight fisheries co-operatives. The Bill would also carry over existing licences, contracts, staff and fishing rights, update the legal framework, strengthen accountability through plans, reports and audits, and raise outdated fines, including introducing or updating on-the-spot penalties for minor offences.

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Bill entitled an Act to establish a body to be known as, in the English language, Inland Fisheries Ireland or, in the Irish language, Iascach Intíre Éireann and to define its functions, to dissolve the Central Fisheries Board and Regional Fisheries Boards, to provide for other matters connected with the foregoing and to amend and extend the Fisheries Acts 1959 to 2007

Last updated 20 November 2019