Table of Contents 

# Act on Promotion of Inland Waters Fishery (Tentative translation) 

Chapter I General Provisions (Articles 1 to 8) 

Chapter II Basic Policy (Articles 9 and 10) 

Chapter III Measures for Promotion of Inland Waters Fishery 

(Act No. 103 of June 27, 2014) 

Section 1 Investigation of Habitat Status of Inland Waters Resources (Article 11) 

Section 2 Measures for Recovery of Inland Waters Resources (Articles 12 to 14) 

Section 3 Measures for Revitalization of Fishing Ground Environment in Inland Waters (Articles 15 to 19) 

Section 4 Measures for Sound Development of Inland Waters Fishery (Articles 20 to 25) 

Section 5 Permission for Designated Aquaculture and Notification of Notified Aquaculture (Articles 26 to 34) 

Chapter IV Council (Article 35) 

Chapter V Penal Provisions (Articles 36 to 40) 

Supplementary Provisions 

## Chapter I General Provisions 

(Purpose) 

Article 1 The purpose of this Act is to comprehensively promote measures for the promotion of inland waters fishery by establishing basic principles and clarifying responsibilities of the national and local governments with regard to the promotion of inland waters fishery, as well as establishing basic matters for measures for the promotion of inland waters fishery, and thereby to develop fishery productivity in inland waters, and also to contribute to stabilizing and improving the lives of the citizenry as well as to conserving the natural environment. 

(Basic Principles) 

Article 2 In view of the fact that inland waters fishery has the function of supplying aquatic products and multiple functions, and that it plays an important role in stabilizing and improving the lives of the citizenry as well as in conserving the natural environment, measures for the promotion of inland 

