Fisheries Act 1988

The purpose of this Part is to conserve, enhance, protect, utilise, and manage the fish and aquatic life resources of the

Territory to:

promote, develop and maintain Aboriginal, commercial and amateur fishing; and

provide for optimum yields from a fishery and maintain the quality of the yield; and

ensure that the fisheries of the Territory are not endangered or overexploited; and

encourage tourist and scientific interest in fish and aquatic life; and

ensure that the habitats of fish or aquatic life and the general environment are not detrimentally affected.

For the avoidance of doubt, manage in subsection

includes, and must be taken always to have included, a total prohibition against the taking of fish or aquatic life in all or part of a management area or in a fishery.