Section 23: Power of the Government to limit or restrict the number of fishing, vessels in public water body

The Government may, by notification in the. Gazette, limit or restrict or prohibit either temporarily or permanently the number and size of fishing vessels, fixed gear, free net and any other devices in use in any public water body.

24. Power of the Government to restrict the entrance of special varieties of fish.-—The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, restrict, prohibit or regulate the entrance of any local or other extraordinary species of fishes having life or fish seeds which is suspected as likely to cause any damage to the existing fishery wealth or to cause any epidemic disease to the existing species of fishes or harmful to the environment.