Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts21. Purposes of Part
(1) The purpose of this Part is to conserve, enhance, protect, utilize, and manage the fish and aquatic life resources of the Territory to -
(a) promote, develop and maintain commercial and amateur fishing;
(b) provide for optimum yields from a fishery and maintain the quality of the yield;
(c) ensure that the fisheries of the Territory are not endangered or overexploited;
(ca) encourage tourist and scientific interest in fish and aquatic life; and/or
(d) ensure that the habitats of fish or aquatic life and the general environment is not detrimentally affected.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt, manage in subsection (1) includes, and shall be taken always to have included, a total prohibition against the taking of fish or aquatic life in all or part of a fishery management area or in a fishery.