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to promote and regulate aquaculture in riverine waters and in particular, provide for the leasing and licensing of lakes, swamps, mining pools and other pools, land and other areas for the cultivation of fish, prescribe standards for the construction and operation of aquaculture establishments including the size and depth of ponds, measures for the prevention of fish diseases and controls over any particular species of fish which may be produced by cultivation;

to regulate or prohibit any method of fishing in riverine waters or the use or possession of certain types of traps or nets, and to prescribe minimum mesh sizes for fishing nets;

to prescribe the minimum weights and sizes of fish which may be caught in riverine waters for the purpose of sale, processing, consumption or sport, or to prohibit fishing for any prescribed species of fish;

to designate persons, by name or office, to be licensing officers and to prescribe the powers to be exercised by such officers and by any officer authorised by the Director in writing in that behalf with respect to inland fisheries;

for the purpose of the conservation of fish in riverine waters, to regulate and control the construction of any slides, dams or other obstruction, or the removal of sand or gravel or other alteration to the natural environment or habitat of fish; and

to designate, prescribe, promote, provide or regulate any other matter for the proper conservation, development, management and regulation of inland fisheries.

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