Adopted at the 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and promulgated by Order No. 34 of the President of the People's Republic of China on January 20, 1986;amended for the first time according to the 'Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the Amendment of the Fishery Law of the People's Republic of China' at the Eighteenth Session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on October 31, 2000;amended for the second time according to the 'Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the Amendment of the Fishery Law of the People's Republic of China' at the Eleventh Session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress on August 28, 2004