(1) The Director of Fisheries or any other officer authorized by him, not below the rank of an Assistant Director of Fisheries, shall be the officer to manage and preserve the protected fish sanctuaiy.
(2) A Fisheries Preservation Scheme shall be prepared by a Technical Committee appointed by the Government for the purpose and the Government shall notify the same.
(3) The Technical Committee appointed under sub-section (2) shall consist of the following members and the functioning of the Technical Committee shall be such as may be prescribed,—
1. Director of Fisheries;
2. one biologist;
3. one environment scientist;
4. one social scientist;
5. one expert in management;
6. one hydrologist;
7. one representative of the State Bio-Diversity Board;
8. Executive Director, Agency for Development of Aquaculture (ADAK).
The Director of Fisheries shall be the Chairman of the Technical Committee and the Executive Director, ADAK shall be the Convener.
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(4) The Fisheries Preservation Scheme prepared under sub-section (2) may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
(i) over and above the protection of the bio-diversity of living beings including different species of fish, the protection procedure of separately directed local fish species which are facing racial extinction and their ecosystem;
(ii) the harmonisation among the protection of livelihood of fishermen and the fish sanctuary;
(iii) to prescribe the bearing capacity of fish in water body adjacent to the protected fish sanctuary and to fix the number of fishing vessels and nets to be used in accordance with it;
(iv) as to any other matter to be provided for in the scheme or as to the matters required or needed for the implementation of the scheme.
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