Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Without limiting
section 56(3), a management plan may —
(a)
regulate fishing in the fishery, or the possession of fish taken in the
fishery;
(b)
prohibit or regulate the use of any boat, vehicle or aircraft in the fishery
or require the registration, marking or identification of boats, vehicles or
aircraft, used in the fishery;
(c)
prohibit or regulate the carrying or use of specified fishing gear in the
fishery;
(d)
provide for the registration or identification of fishing gear used in the
fishery;
(e)
require specified gear or equipment to be installed in or carried or used on
boats used in the fishery;
(f)
require persons engaged in fishing in the fishery to participate in research
programmes and to carry scientific equipment;
(g)
require persons engaged in fishing in the fishery to carry observers or
research personnel for the purposes of research, monitoring or compliance
programmes;
(h)
provide for and regulate the identification of fish (whether taken in the
fishery or otherwise) by tagging, marking or other specified means;
(i)
regulate the checking, measuring, grading, counting or
weighing of fish taken in the fishery;
(j)
prohibit the purchase or sale of fish taken or dealt with in contravention of
the management plan;
(k)
specify requirements relating to any bycatch of fish in the fishery;
(l)
require the holder of an authorisation to nominate —
(i)
an area (being one of the areas specified in the
management plan for the purposes of this paragraph); or
(ii)
a period (being one of the periods specified in the
management plan for the purposes of this paragraph),
within or during which
fish will be taken, or any boat will be used, under the authorisation;
(m)
require the holder of an authorisation to nominate a port, place or area
(being a port, place or area specified in the management plan) within or at
which fish taken under the authorisation will be unloaded;
(n)
prohibit fish taken under an authorisation from being unloaded outside the
port, place or area nominated by the holder of the authorisation;
(o)
prohibit more than a specified number of persons from operating under an
authorisation and specifying the respective functions that may be performed by
each person;
(p)
impose other obligations on the holders of authorisations, persons acting on
behalf of such holders or masters of boats;
(q)
require specified records to be kept, and specified returns to be submitted at
specified times, by —
(i)
persons acting under the authority of authorisations; or
(ii)
other persons who handle, unload, land, store, pack,
consign, transport, process, sell or purchase fish (whether taken in the
fishery or otherwise);
(r)
prohibit a person from making an entry or statement that is false or
misleading in a material particular in a record or return required to be kept
or submitted under a management plan;
(s)
require persons to report to the CEO or to a fisheries officer (whether by
radio or otherwise) the position of any boat, the landing of any fish or any
other matter;
(t)
require each fishing operation in the fishery to be under the control of a
natural person, who is the holder of the authorisation or a person nominated
by the holder;
(u)
prohibit or regulate the handling, transfer, landing, unloading, storage,
packaging, labelling, transport, delivery, consigning, processing, sale or
purchase of fish (whether taken in the fishery or otherwise).
[Section 62 amended by No. 28 of 2006
s. 236(1).]