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(1) The Minister may from time to time approve a population management plan in respect of one or more species, being threatened species or other species of marine mammal, containing all or any of the following matters in respect of each species:
(a) An assessment of the biology and status of the species:
(b) An assessment of any known fisheries interaction with the species:
(c) 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:
(d) An estimate of the range of human-induced mortality for the species which would allow the criteria specified in section 3F of this Act to be met:
(e) An estimate of the range of fishing-related mortality for the species which would allow the criteria specified in section 3F of this Act to be met:
(f) The maximum allowable level of fishing-related mortality for the species, in New Zealand fisheries waters, which would allow the criteria specified in section 3F of this Act to be met:
(g) Subject to section 3G of this Act, if a level has been set under paragraph (f) of this subsection, the maximum allowable level of fishing-related mortality for the species, in specified areas within New Zealand fisheries waters:
(h) Recommendations to the Minister of Fisheries on measures to mitigate the fishing-related mortality of the species:
(i) Recommendations to the Minister of Fisheries on the standard of information to be collected on fishing-related mortality.
(2) In the case of any marine mammals ranging outside New Zealand fisheries waters, the maximum allowable level of fishing-related mortality set under paragraph (f) or paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of this section shall be based on a fair and equitable consideration of the proportion that the estimated fishing-related mortality of marine mammals within those waters bears to the total estimated mortality of marine mammals in all waters (including waters outside New Zealand fisheries waters).
Sections 3E to 3H were inserted, as from 1 October 1996, by section 316(1) Fisheries Act 1988 (1996 No 88). See clause 2 Fisheries Act Commencement Order (No 2) 1996 (SR 1996/255).