(Principal fisheries management Acts currently in force are shown in bold)
New Zealand
Fisheries Act 1983, as amended from time to time,
principally by:Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1986
Maori Fisheries Act 1989
Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1990
Fisheries (Amendment) Act No. 1991
Treaty of Waitangi (Fisheries Claims) Settlement Act 1992
Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1992Fisheries Act 1996
Australia
Commonwealth
Fisheries Act 1952 (repealed)
Fisheries Management Act 1991
Fisheries Administration Act 1991 also:Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973
Coastal Powers (State Powers) Act 1980
Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980
New South Wales
Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935
Fisheries Management Act 1994
Northern Territory
Fisheries Act (1988)
Queensland
Fisheries Act 1976 (repealed)
Fishing Industry Organisation and Marketing Act 1982 (repealed)
Fisheries Act 1994
South Australia
Fisheries Act 1982
Tasmania
Fisheries Act 1959 (repealed)
Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995
Victoria
Fisheries Act 1968 (repealed)
Fisheries Act 1995
Western Australia
Fisheries Act 1905
Fish Resources Management Act 1994
Iceland
Act Regarding the Management of Fisheries 1990
USA
Submerged Lands Act 1953
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act 1980
as amended by the Sustainable Fisheries Act 1996
Canada
Resources Transfer Act of 1930
Fisheries Act of 1985
Manitoba
Fisheries Act of 1987
Sea Fisheries Act 1988 (repealed)
Marine Living Resources Act 1998
Namibia
Sea Fisheries Act 1992
Marine Resources Act, 2001