This plan provides for the use, conservation and enhancement of the community’s fisheries resources by managing the east coast trawl fishery in a way to apply and balance the principles of ecologically sustainable development and promote ecologically sustainable development. The east coast trawl fishery is fishing for trade or commerce by the use of trawl nets in the tidal waters east of longitude 142º31.89' east (the east coast trawl fishery waters). The plan consists of 7 Chapters divided into 198 sections. Chapter 2 provides for particular regulated waters declarations. Chapter 3 contains general provisions on licences and fishery symbols, it covers also the use of bycatch reduction devices and of turtle excluder devices. Chapter 4 is dedicated to specific licence conditions for each of the types of licences under the Fisheries Act 1994. Chapter 5 contains additional conditions to which a commercial fishing boat licence is subject. Chapter 6 covers prescribed offences and criteria for suspending licences. Chapter 7 contains repeal and transitional provisions. The plan is completed by four schedules: particular regulated waters; effort unit conversion factor for boats; waters where scallops may be processed on boats; and extended definition for areas.
أستراليا · 2010-12-09