Small Pelagic Fishery Management Plan 2009.

This Plan, consisting of 58 sections divided into ten Parts and completed by four Schedules, regulates the Small Pelagic Fishery Management. The objectives of this Management Plan, and the objectives for the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) to pursue when administering the Plan, are the same as the objectives set out in section 3 of the Act. The measures by which the objectives of this Management Plan are to be attained include the following: a) providing the services needed to manage the fishery (including data collection, research and consultation and services to ensure compliance with the Plan); b) annually evaluating and, if necessary, revising the range, extent and cost of the services mentioned in paragraph (a); c) reviewing ecological risk assessments of marine communities, quota and non-quota species, and protected species to determine the risk to the maintenance of an ecologically sustainable fishery; d) developing, in cooperation with stakeholders, a plan to strategically address any high risks identified during an ecological risk assessment; e) setting catch limits, or designing other measures, for non-quota species to ensure the ecological sustainability of these species; f) setting catch limits and managing quota species in accordance with the Harvest Strategy; g) issuing directions prohibiting fishing in the fishery, or part of the fishery, during specified periods, informing the holders of fishing concessions about those directions, and requiring the holders to comply with the directions; h) granting SFRs to eligible persons; i) consulting with the advisory committee about the management of the fishery; j) in accordance with the government’s cost recovery policy, preparing annual budgets and recommending levies to recover the costs of management that are attributable to the fishing industry; k) identifying impediments to maximizing the net economic returns to the Australian community in managing the resources of the fishery and developing strategies to minimise the effect of, or eliminate, the impediments; etc.
The Plan is divided as follows: Specific ecosystem requirements (Part 2); Total allowable catch (Part 3); Right to fish in the fishery (Part 4); Availability of SFRs (Part 5); Obligations applying to holders of SFRs (Part 7); Miscellaneous (Part 9); Transitional (Part 10). Schedules specify the following items: Sub-areas of the fishery; Zones A, B, C and D; IMF 1 and IMF 2 sub-areas; Quota species.