Fisheries Management Act 1994

The Secretary must, in preparing a plan and in deciding which measures to include in it, have regard to the following—

the objects of this Part,

the likely social and economic consequences of the making of the plan,

the most efficient and effective use of available resources for the conservation of threatened species, populations and ecological communities,

the desirability of minimising any significant adverse social and economic consequences.

The Secretary is to consider, when preparing a plan, any measures by which the public may co-operate—

in the conservation of the threatened species, population or ecological community, or

in the abatement, amelioration or elimination of the adverse effects of the key threatening process on threatened species, populations or ecological communities.