Wildlife Act 1953

Protection of wildlife - Management planning

14F: Population management plans

You could also call this:

"Plans to help manage and protect animal populations"

The Minister can approve a plan to manage the population of certain species, like threatened species or marine wildlife. This plan might include information about the species, like its biology and how it interacts with fisheries. It could also look at how human activities, like fishing, affect the species and estimate how many of the species can be harmed before it affects the whole population, as outlined in section 14G.

You might see the plan include recommendations to reduce the harm caused by fishing and suggestions for collecting information about fishing-related deaths. The plan considers the impact of fishing on the species, not just in New Zealand waters, but also in other areas where the species is found.

When setting limits on fishing-related harm, the plan takes into account the total harm caused to the species, both in New Zealand waters and elsewhere, to make a fair decision, and it also considers section 14H when setting these limits in specific areas.

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14E: Conservation management plans, or

"Plans to protect and care for special wildlife areas"

14G: Determining maximum allowable level of fishing-related mortality, or

"Setting safe fishing limits to protect marine animals"

Part 1Protection of wildlife
Management planning

14FPopulation management plans

The Minister may from time to time approve a population management plan in respect of 1 or more species, being threatened species or other species of marine wildlife, containing all or any of the following matters in respect of each species:
an assessment of the biology and status of the species:
an assessment of any known fisheries interaction with the species:
an assessment of the degree of risk caused by fishing-related mortality and other human-induced sources of mortality to the species, whether within New Zealand fisheries waters or elsewhere within the range of the species:
an estimate of the range of human-induced mortality for the species which would allow the criteria specified in section 14G to be met:
an estimate of the range of fishing-related mortality for the species which would allow the criteria specified in section 14G to be met:
the maximum allowable level of fishing-related mortality for the species, in New Zealand fisheries waters, which would allow the criteria specified in section 14G to be met:
subject to section 14H, if a level has been set under paragraph (f), the maximum allowable level of fishing-related mortality for the species, in specified areas within New Zealand fisheries waters:
recommendations to the Minister of Fisheries on measures to mitigate the fishing-related mortality of the species:
recommendations to the Minister of Fisheries on the standard of information to be collected on fishing-related mortality.

In the case of any marine wildlife ranging outside New Zealand fisheries waters, the maximum allowable level of fishing-related mortality set under paragraph (f) or paragraph (g) of subsection (1) shall be based on a fair and equitable consideration of the proportion that the estimated fishing-related mortality of that species within those waters is to the total estimated fishing-related mortality of that species in all waters (including waters outside New Zealand fisheries waters).

Notes

Section 14F: inserted, on 1 October 1996, by section 316(1) of the Fisheries Act 1996 (1996 No 88).