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Fisheries Act 1996

Sustainability measures

11A: Fisheries plans

You could also call this:

"Rules to Help Manage Fishing in New Zealand"

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The Minister can approve, change or cancel a fisheries plan. You can think of a fisheries plan as a set of rules to help manage fishing in New Zealand. A fisheries plan can cover one or more types of fish, fishing years, or areas. The Minister can include things like objectives and strategies in a fisheries plan. These objectives and strategies are designed to support the purpose and principles of the Fisheries Act. They can also include sustainability measures, which are set out in sections like sections 11, 13, 14, and 15. A fisheries plan can have performance criteria to measure how well the objectives and strategies are working. It can also include conservation services, fisheries services, and contingency strategies. The Minister can consider proposals under Part 9 when looking at a fisheries plan.

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Part 3Sustainability measures

11AFisheries plans

  1. The Minister may from time to time approve, amend, or revoke a fisheries plan.

  2. A fisheries plan approved under subsection (1) may relate to 1 or more stocks, fishing years, or areas, or any combination of those things.

  3. Without limiting anything in subsection (2), a fisheries plan may include—

  4. fisheries management objectives to support the purpose and principles of the Act:
    1. strategies to achieve fisheries management objectives, which may include—
      1. sustainability measures set or varied under any of sections 11, 13, 14, and 15:
        1. rules to manage the interaction between different fisheries sectors:
        2. performance criteria to measure the achievement of the objectives and strategies:
          1. conservation services or fisheries services:
            1. contingency strategies to deal with foreseeable variations in circumstances.

              1. Nothing in this section prevents the Minister from considering a proposal under Part 9.

              Notes
              • Section 11A: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).