Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L01285:front:0:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L01285
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 16254–19555

an interaction with a seabird occurs where a seabird is observed as caught under one of the following situations:

                               1. Dead not landed on board—birds observed to be killed by direct interaction with fishing gear, but not landed on the fishing vessel.

                               2. Dead landed on board – birds killed by direct interaction with fishing gear and landed on the fishing vessel.

                               3. Alive landed on board the fishing vessel following direct interaction with fishing gear:

                           a)      injured, or

                           b)      released uninjured.

                           4.       Alive and released while not on board the fishing vessel following direct interaction with fishing gear:

                           a)      injured, or

                           b)      released uninjured.

IUCN                       International Union for Conservation of Nature.

KBA                        Key Biodiversity Areas.

Longline fishing           Setting and hauling of one or more single lines (mainline) that contains many individual hooks on branch lines. The mainline can either be anchored or drifting. It can be oriented vertically or horizontally, and vary considerably in length and number of hooks. Longline fishing includes using any configuration of a pelagic or demersal longline.

NGO                        Non-government organisation.

Offal                      Discarded waste from the processing of fish (including, among other things, discarded fish and other organisms, and used baits).

Pelagic finfish            Fish that live in the upper layers of the sea or ocean.

Purse seine                A generally small-meshed net with a floating top and weighted bottom that is deployed to encircle target species. After encirclement, a wire threaded through the bottom of the net is pulled to tighten the net like a purse, enclosing the catch within and allowing the net to be brought to the fishing vessel where the catch is retrieved either by brailing, pumping or bringing the net and catch on board the vessel.

Precautionary approach     The precautionary approach is included as one of the principles of ecologically sustainable development in subsection 3A(a) of the EPBC Act, as follows:

                           'if there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, a lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation'.

Range States               Any State that exercises jurisdiction over any part of the range of albatross or petrels, or a State, flag vessels of which are engaged outside of its national jurisdictional limits in taking, or have the potential to take, albatrosses and petrels.

Recovery plan              A plan setting out the research and management actions necessary to stop the decline of, and support the recovery of, listed threatened species or threatened ecological communities under the EPBC Act.

Seabird                    A bird that frequents the sea or coast. For the purposes of this recovery plan, a seabird includes all species in the Class Aves.

Seabird mitigation device  Device designed to reduce the likelihood of interactions