Departmental Output Expense - Fisheries Operations

Description

This departmental output expense provides for:

• The development of standards, guidelines, regulations, fisheries plans and processes that make fisheries policy operational
  
• Services to monitor the delivery of contracted and devolved registry services to ensure consistency and compliance with contracted or devolved standards
  
• Delivering on obligations arising from the Fisheries Deed of Settlement obligations
  
• The management and dissemination of information received from registry agencies
  
• Management of a number of Ministry statutory decision processes
  
• A capacity to contribute to the formulation of strategic goals for the biosecurity system
  
• A capability to contribute to the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy.

Objectives

This departmental output expense is designed to achieve:

• Appropriate standards defining acceptable impacts of fishing
  
• Appropriate allocation of rights to utilise fisheries
  
• Objective-based fisheries plans that maximise value from fisheries
  
• Effective participation for tangata whenua in fisheries management.