South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts43—General nature and content of management plans
(1) A management plan
must—
(a) be
consistent with the objects of this Act; and
(b) be
consistent with any relevant aboriginal traditional fishing management plan;
and
(c) set
out the management objectives of the plan and strategies for achieving those
objectives; and
(d)
identify research needs and priorities; and
(e) set
out the resources required to implement the plan; and
(f) take
into account—
(i)
the advice of any committee established by the Minister
for that purpose; and
(ii)
the provisions of any relevant state planning policy or
regional plan, and the Planning and Design Code, under the
Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 ; and
(iii)
the provisions of any document prescribed for the
purposes of this paragraph (insofar as is relevant to the operation of this
Act and reasonably practicable).
(2) A management plan
for a fishery must—
(a)
identify the fishery to which the plan relates; and
(b)
describe the biological, economic and social characteristics of the fishery;
and
(c)
identify the impacts or potential impacts of the fishery on its associated
ecosystem or ecosystems, including impacts on non-target species of fish or
other aquatic resources; and
(d)
identify any ecological factors that could have an impact on the performance
of the fishery; and
(e)
assess the risks (if any) identified under paragraphs (c) and (d) to
determine the most serious risks; and
(f) set
out strategies for addressing those risks; and
(g) set
out methods for monitoring the performance of the fishery and the
effectiveness of the plan, including performance indicators, trigger points
for review or action and progress reporting; and
(h)
specify the share of aquatic resources to be allocated to each fishing sector
under the plan; and
(i)
prescribe a method, or establish an open and transparent
process for determining the method, for adjusting allocations of
aquatic resources between the different fishing sectors during the term of the
plan; and
(j)
provide that compensation will be paid to persons whose licences or licence
entitlements are compulsorily acquired in order to reduce the share of
aquatic resources allocated to the commercial fishing sector and increase the
share allocated to another sector.
(3) In determining the
share of aquatic resources to be allocated to a particular fishing sector
under the first management plan for an existing fishery, the share of
aquatic resources to which that fishing sector had access at the time the
Minister decided to prepare the plan (based on the most recent information
available to the Minister) must be taken into account.
(4) A management plan
may relate to more than 1 class of fishing activity or more than
1 aquatic reserve.
(5) In this
section—
"existing fishery" means a fishery constituted under this Act by virtue of
clause 5 of Schedule 1.