This is a rather comprehensive new act on marine fisheries which replaces all other legal instruments inconsistent with it. It is divided into 13 chapters. Chapter 1, Title and Definitions, is mainly devoted to the definition of the scope and the extent of the Act. Chapter 2, Applications for Licence, distinguishes between licence for inshore fishery, for offshore fishery, for collecting marine products for sale, for commercial fishing, for sport fishing and for fishing under the Myanmar Foreign Investment Law or under joint venture. Chapter 3 deals with payment of duties and fines and chapter 4 with registration of fishing vessels carrying out offshore fishing and of fishermen. Fishing grounds shall be determined along with the rules set down in chapter 5, Determination of Fishing Ground, which states that preferences shall be given to citizens in the fishing grounds located between the baselines and the coast, as declared in the territorial sea and Maritime Zones Law.