Summary and Background Part 6: Management of Inshore Fisheries Other powers and duties of IFC authorities Section 178: Annual report
477.This section requires every IFC authority, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the end of each financial year, to publish a report on its activities in that year. Subsections (2) and (3) enable the Secretary of State to impose requirements on IFC authorities relating to the form, contents and distribution of the report.