❓ The question explores the Minister's preferred method for managing commercial fishing (prohibition/exemption vs. management plans), circumstances for using prohibition/exemption, tax implications of exemptions within the VFAS, catch history considerations, and compensation for sanctuary zone impacts.
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(1) As a general rule, does the Minister believe that the prohibition/exemption method of managing commercial fishing, as allowed for under Section 43 and elsewhere within the Fish Resources Management Act 1994, is a preferred way of managing fisheries rather than via management plans or interim management plans?
(2) Under what circumstances does the Minister believe that the Fisheries Department should use the prohibition/exemption method of managing commercial fishing rather than via management/interim management plans?
(3) Where an existing license is cancelled or otherwise affected by a prohibition, under Section 43 of the Act, and an exemption for continued fishing activity is provided to the affected commercial fisher, is capital gains tax payable on any money provided to the holder of the exemption if he/she later chooses to take part in the Voluntary Fisheries Adjustment Scheme (VFAS) and hand back the exemption?
(4) Is catch history taken into account when an exemption is purchased from a commercial fisher via a VFAS?
(5) If yes, how is catch history taken into account, recognising that an annually-authorised exemption may be replacing a license that had a catch history of many years attached to it?
(6) When a sanctuary (no fishing) zone is declared within a marine park, will compensation be paid to a commercial fisher if an exemption granted to that fisher is affected by the declaration of the no fishing zone?
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(2) Under what circumstances does the Minister believe that the Fisheries Department should use the prohibition/exemption method of managing commercial fishing rather than via management/interim management plans?
(3) Where an existing license is cancelled or otherwise affected by a prohibition, under Section 43 of the Act, and an exemption for continued fishing activity is provided to the affected commercial fisher, is capital gains tax payable on any money provided to the holder of the exemption if he/she later chooses to take part in the Voluntary Fisheries Adjustment Scheme (VFAS) and hand back the exemption?
(4) Is catch history taken into account when an exemption is purchased from a commercial fisher via a VFAS?
(5) If yes, how is catch history taken into account, recognising that an annually-authorised exemption may be replacing a license that had a catch history of many years attached to it?
(6) When a sanctuary (no fishing) zone is declared within a marine park, will compensation be paid to a commercial fisher if an exemption granted to that fisher is affected by the declaration of the no fishing zone?
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