Western Australian Current Acts

AQUATIC RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 16

16 .         Content of ARMS

        (1)         An ARMS for a managed aquatic resource must set out the following things —

            (a)         a description of the aquatic resource that is to be managed;

            (b)         the main objective to be achieved by managing the aquatic resource;

            (c)         the minimum quantity of the aquatic resource that is considered necessary to be maintained for the resource to be ecologically sustainable;

            (d)         the activities that should be regulated in respect of the aquatic resource;

            (e)         the details of each period for which activities in respect of the aquatic resource are to be regulated ( fishing period );

            (f)         the quantity of the aquatic resource that is to be available in a fishing period for customary fishing and public benefit uses;

            (g)         the method to be used in calculating the following —

                  (i)         the total allowable catch (TAC) for the aquatic resource;

                  (ii)         the quantity of TAC available for commercial fishing for the aquatic resource, including the quantity of TAC available for a type of resource share in the aquatic resource;

            (h)         the proportion of the TAC that is to be available for recreational fishing for the resource;

                  (i)         the proportion of the TAC that is to be available for commercial purposes, including —

                  (i)         the proportion of the TAC to be available for commercial fishing for the resource; and

                  (ii)         the proportion of the TAC that is to be available for taking incidentally in the course of commercial fishing for other aquatic resources;

            (j)         the type or types of resource shares in the aquatic resource that are to be made available to the commercial sector;

            (ja)         the number of a type of resource share in the aquatic resource that is to be made available to the commercial sector;

            (k)         the scientific parameters to be used to assess how effectively the aquatic resource is being managed;

            (l)         the consultation to be carried out in relation to the making, amendment or revocation of an aquatic resource use plan (ARUP) to implement the ARMS.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1)(d), the activities that should be regulated in respect of the aquatic resource may include the taking of other aquatic resources incidentally in the course of commercial fishing for the aquatic resource.

        [Section 16 amended: No. 14 of 2021 s. 6.]