📑 Law No. 94/01 of 20 January 1994 to lay down forestry, wildlife and fisheries regulations in Cameroon, Part 1, Chapter 1, Section 4

" Fishery or fishing, within the context of this law, means the act of capturing or of harvesting any fishery resources or any activity that may lead to the harvesting or capturing of fishery resources, including the proper management and use of the aquatic environment, with a view to protecting the animal species therein by the total or partial control of their life cycle."

⌚ Date Published: 1994-01-20
⚖️ Instrument Type: Law
Country: 🇨🇲 Cameroon
🌍 Continent : Africa
📜Instrument: Law No. 94/01 of 20 January 1994 to lay down forestry, wildlife and fisheries regulations in Cameroon
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DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE



🔑 Control
Control

➡ Refers to the various restrictions (measures) that managers can impose to regulate fishing.


🔑 FIS
FIS

➡ Refers to the joint France-Cote d´Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.


🔑 Fish
Fish

➡ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.


🔑 Fish
Fish

➡ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.


🔑 Fishery
Fishery

➡  any activity related to the culture, management, harvest, processing or marketing of aquatic animals (finfish, shellfish, molluscs, crustaceans, etc.) or plants (seaweeds, alga, etc.).


🔑 Fishery resource
Fishery resource

➡ Any harvestable natural or cultured living resource (fish, crustaceans, molluscs and algae) from marine, estuarine and fresh water environments, living in the water or on the seabed (sedentary organisms).


🔑 Fishing
Fishing

➡ Sector or activity of harvesting fish from the wild.