Ecolabelling of Seafood: The Basic Concepts - SEAFOOD Ecolabelling: Principles and Practice - page 15

arrangements in other jurisdictions, and adhere to arrangements established un-
der Australian laws and international agreements.
The management regime does not have to be a formal statutory fishery man-
agement plan as such, and may include non-statutory management arrangements
or management policies and programmes. The regime should:
be documented, publicly available and transparent;
be developed through a consultative process providing opportunity to all
interested and affected parties, including the general public;
ensure that a range of expertise and community interests are involved in
individual fishery management committees and during the stock assessment
process;
be strategic, containing objectives and performance criteria by which the
effectiveness of the management arrangements is measured;
be capable of controlling the level of harvest in the fishery using input and/or
output controls;
contain the means of enforcing critical aspects of the management arrange-
ments;
provide for the periodic review of the performance of the fishery management
arrangements and the management strategies, objectives and criteria;
be capable of assessing, monitoring and avoiding, remedying or mitigating
any adverse impacts on the wider marine ecosystem in which the target
species lives and the fishery operates; and
require compliance with relevant threat abatement plans, recovery plans, the
National Policy on Fisheries Bycatch , and bycatch action strategies developed
under that policy.
The management regime must also comply with any relevant international or
regional management regime to which Australia is a party. Compliance with the
international or regional regime does not mean Australia cannot place upon the
management of the Australian component of the fishery management controls
that are more stringent than those required through the international or regional
regime.
Principle 1
A fishery must be conducted in a manner that does not lead to over-fishing, or
for those stocks that are over-fished, the fishery must be conducted such that
there is a high degree of probability the stock(s) will recover.
Objective 1. The fishery shall be conducted at catch levels that maintain eco-
logically viable stock levels at an agreed point or range, with acceptable levels
of probability.