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Fisheries Act 1996

Purpose and principles

9: Environmental principles

You could also call this:

"Protecting the environment when making fishing decisions"

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When you are making decisions about fisheries under this Act, you must think about the environment. You need to consider how your decisions will affect species that depend on fisheries, and make sure they can survive in the long term. You also need to think about keeping the variety of life in the water healthy, and protecting important habitats for fish.

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Part 2Purpose and principles

9Environmental principles

  1. All persons exercising or performing functions, duties, or powers under this Act, in relation to the utilisation of fisheries resources or ensuring sustainability, shall take into account the following environmental principles:

  2. associated or dependent species should be maintained above a level that ensures their long-term viability:
    1. biological diversity of the aquatic environment should be maintained:
      1. habitat of particular significance for fisheries management should be protected.