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World Status, Exploitation and Trade - WIDECAST

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MAURITIUS AND DEPENDENCIESuncertain. Newspaper reports indicated that a farm was investigated, <strong>and</strong>was planned to start in 1983. It is not known whether further turtle stockwas ever obtained but, so far as is known, no farm is in existence atpresent.LEGISLATIONFisheries Act, No. 5, 1980.Establishes fishery controls over all territorial waters, <strong>and</strong> requiresspecial authorisation for the capture of turtles.Government Notice No. 18, Fourth Schedule, Toxic Fish, 1983.Forbids the sale or offering for consumption of the meat ofE. imbricata . [It is not certain whether this applies to St Br<strong>and</strong>on,Agalega <strong>and</strong> Rodrigues].344

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