This Plan concerns the management of fishery relating to the species of crustacean of the genus Scylla known as mud crabs. The objects of this Plan are: (a) to manage the fishery resource, in accordance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development, to ensure the promotion of appropriate protection of: (i) the resource and its habitats; and (ii) by-product species and by-catch species; and (b) to maintain a stewardship of the fishery resource that promotes fairness, equity and access to the resource by all stakeholder groups, including: (i) indigenous people; and (ii) commercial operators; and (iii) amateur fishers; and (iv) others with an interest in the fishery resource of the Territory; and(c)to promote the optimum utilisation of the resource to the benefit of the community by a flexible approach to the management of the fishery resource and its habitats.
Australia · 2006-05-01