This Act amends the Fair Fishing Act in Section 3 by providing an exemption on the recent extension the prohibition to use non-traditional fishing methods by any commercial and non-commercial fishermen to all waters of the Commonwealth. The exemption concerns non-commercial (subsistence) fishing in the waters surrounding the First Senatorial District with the use of throw nets (talaya), or the use of the following types of nets provided the net mesh size are no smaller than two inches: drag nets (chenchulun lagua), surround nets (chenchulun umesugon) or trap nets (chenchulun managam).
Northern Mariana Islands (USA) · 2010-08-24