FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 No. 162 of 1991 - SECT 3 Objectives

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 No. 162 of 1991 - SECT 3

3. (1) The following objectives must be pursued by the Minister in the
administration of this Act and by AFMA in the performance of its functions:

   (a)  implementing efficient and cost-effective fisheries management on
        behalf of the Commonwealth; and

   (b)  ensuring that the exploitation of fisheries resources and the carrying
        on of any related activities are conducted in a manner consistent with
        the principles of ecologically sustainable development, in particular
        the need to have regard to the impact of fishing activities on
        non-target species and the marine environment; and

   (c)  maximising economic efficiency in the exploitation of fisheries
        resources; and

   (d)  ensuring accountability to the fishing industry and to the Australian
        community in AFMA's management of fisheries resources; and

   (e)  achieving government targets in relation to the recovery of the costs
        of AFMA.

(2) In addition to the objectives mentioned in subsection (1), or in section 
78 of this Act, the Minister, AFMA and Joint Authorities are to have regard to
the objectives of:

   (a)  ensuring, through proper conservation and management measures, that
        the living resources of the AFZ are not endangered by
        over-exploitation; and

   (b)  achieving the optimum utilisation of the living resources of the AFZ;
        but must ensure, as far as practicable, that measures adopted in
        pursuit of those objectives must not be inconsistent with the
        preservation, conservation and protection of all species of whales.