The regulations for registration and management of inland aquaculture shall be prescribed by the municipal/county/city competent authority.
The municipal/county/city competent authority may plan and set up an aquaculture production area in which the environment is appropriate for developing aquaculture or presently fish farms concentrated. The regulations for the establishment and management shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.
Any aquatic organisms that involved in genetic breeding and transference shall run prior field tests and safety assessments before promotion and utilization. The regulations on the field test and breeding management of genetic bred and transferred aquatic organisms shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.

In the event that the Republic of China has signed fisheries agreement (or arrangement) for the overlapping exclusive economic zones with any neighboring country, any fishing vessel and fisheries employee of that country operating in the area within the agreement (or arrangement), shall comply with the requirements of that agreement (or arrangement).
The requirements of the agreement (or arrangement) as referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall be promulgated by the central competent authority and published in the government gazette.

Starting from 1 January 2009 till this Act amended on 22 January 2015 becomes effective, during which the foreign crew members were hired by fishery operators without obtaining national health insurance cards, such foreign crew members are exempted from Article 9 of the National Health Insurance Act.

The central competent authority shall prescribe the enforcement rules of this Act.

This Act shall enter into force on the date of promulgation. For Article 7-1, Article 39, Article 40, Article 40-1, Article 40-2, Article 63-1, Article 63-2 and Article 68 amended on 5 July 2016, they shall enter into force six months after the promulgation.