Changing Course - Towards Fisheries 2010

• Preface by Chief Executive
• Nature's limits: The challenge
• Net gains: The change of course
• Fisheries 2010: The twelve founding principles
• Guardianship: Our children's future
• Foresight for the future: Strategic issues
• Our common future: Working with stakeholders
• Next steps for the Ministry: Where to from here?
• Project 2010
• Conclusion
• Glossary

Copies of this document are available from the Ministry of Fisheries.

Changing Course: Sustainable fisheries in a healthy aquatic ecosystem

Next steps for the Ministry: Where to from here?

Five-year rolling strategic plan

The Ministry is an agency at the crossroads. In the midst of rapid change, it can stay the same - or develop into an organisation that understands that change and shows foresight and leadership in what it does.

This document sets out the rationale for Fisheries 2010, the vehicle to help the Ministry take the lead and develop both a common view for sustainable fisheries and an operational framework to allow this to be achieved.

Before agreement on the long-term direction of fisheries and the future role of the Ministry is reached in Fisheries 2010, the Ministry will develop a five year rolling Strategic Plan consistent with the strategic direction of this document. One of the key goals of the strategic plan will be the development of the Fisheries 2010 strategy.

The five-year plan will: