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The Act, then known as An Act for the regulation of Fishing and the protection of Fisheries was passed into law on May 22, 1868, in the 1st Canadian Parliament. [2] The Act replaced An Act to amend Chapter 62 of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, and to provide for the better regulation of Fishing and protection of Fisheries passed by the Province of Canada. [2]
The Baroon Pocket Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Obi Obi Creek, in North Maleny, Sunshine Coast Region, in South East Queensland, Australia. The main purpose of the dam is for potable water supply. [2] [3] The impounded reservoir is called Lake Baroon. [4]
In 1765, the Chinese Qing dynasty government required all fishing boat operators to obtain a fishing license under the aojia system that regulated coastal populations. The Dan boat people of Guangdong had to acquire a fishing license as early as 1729. The wooden license issued by the government was to be displayed on the bow or stern of a boat.
[2]: 218 The first countries to adopt individual fishing quotas were the Netherlands, Iceland and Canada in the late 1970s, and the most recent is the United States Scallop General Category IFQ Program in 2010. [3] The first country to adopt individual transferable quotas as a national policy was New Zealand in 1986. [4]
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The Coolmunda Dam is an earth–fill embankment dam with a gated spillway across the Macintyre Brook, a tributary of the Dumaresq River, that is located on Darling Downs in Coolmunda, Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. The main purposes of the dam are for irrigation and potable water supply. [1] [3] The impounded reservoir is called the ...
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The dam creates a reservoir, Lake Clarendon, with a storage capacity of 24,276 megalitres (5.340 × 10 9 imp gal; 6.413 × 10 9 US gal) and a maximum surface area of 339 hectares (840 acres). The dam is managed by SEQ Water. Completed in 1992, by mid-2006 the dam was empty due to drought conditions in Australia. [4]