New Zealand Legislation: Acts

11A Fisheries 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—

  • (a) fisheries management objectives to support the purpose and principles of the Act:

  • (b) strategies to achieve fisheries management objectives, which may include—

    • (i) sustainability measures set or varied under any of sections 11, 13, 14, and 15:

    • (ii) rules to manage the interaction between different fisheries sectors:

  • (c) performance criteria to measure the achievement of the objectives and strategies:

  • (d) conservation services or fisheries services:

  • (e) contingency strategies to deal with foreseeable variations in circumstances.

  (4) Nothing in this section prevents the Minister from considering a proposal under Part 9.

  Section 11A: inserted, on 9 September 1999, by section 6 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).