Fisheries Management Act 1994

Recovery plans A recovery plan must—

identify the threatened species, population or ecological community to which it applies, and

identify any critical habitat declared in relation to the threatened species, population or ecological community, and

identify any threatening process or processes threatening the threatened species, population or ecological community, and

identify methods by which adverse social and economic consequences of the making of the plan can be minimised, and

state what must be done to ensure the recovery of the threatened species, population or ecological community, and

state what must be done to protect the critical habitat (if any) identified in the plan, and

state, with reference to the objects of this Part—

the way in which those objects are to be implemented or promoted for the benefit of the threatened species, population or ecological community, and

the method by which progress towards achieving those objects is to be assessed, and

identify the persons or public authorities who are responsible for the implementation of the measures included in the plan, and

state the date by which the recovery plan should be subject to review by the Secretary.

Threat abatement plans A threat abatement plan must—

state the criteria for assessing the achievement of the objective, and

identify the actions needed to abate, ameliorate or eliminate the effects of the key threatening process, and

identify the persons or public authorities who are responsible for the implementation of the measures included in the plan, and

where practicable, provide a proposed timetable for the implementation of the plan, and

state the estimated cost of the measures included in the plan, and

state the date by which the plan should be subject to review by the Secretary, and

include any other matter relating to the impact of the plan as the Secretary considers appropriate.