Because of the lack of shrimp-specific legislation and the reliance on laws and regulation of various sectors to deal with shrimp cultivation, regulation of shrimp farming suffers from fragmentation. For example, the National Fisheries Policy 1998 includes a policy for the coastal shrimp and aquaculture, but still there has been confusion about the legal and institutional position of shrimp. In some cases, it produced inconsistency in those laws and regulations. For instance, according to the National Environment Policy, 1995, the salinity in land cannot be increased, whereas, the Shrimp Mohal Management Policy declares suitable land for shrimp cultivation as shrimp mohal, thereby challenging the policy to not increase salinity in land. Moreover, many laws and regulations focus on social and environmental issues but there is a serious lack in enforcement of these laws