Each year the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, in consultation with the Minister of Finance, determine the levies payable for each species of fish harvested commercially. These levies are crucial to Marine and Coastal Management as the income earned from each kilogram of fish landed is ploughed back into fisheries research, management and compliance. Where right holders do not pay their levies, it is similar to tax cheats whose non-payment affects the entire industry.
During 2005, Marine and Coastal Management will be conducting a wholesale review into how levies are calculated and charged. Marine and Coastal Management is considering levying the full levy payable to it for that fishing season when a right is allocated.
Permits will not be issued to right holders who are in arrears with levy payments.
The levies for each fish species harvested on a commercial basis are set out on this page. In addition, the payment status of each right holder is reflected on a fishery basis. Hake deep sea trawl
- Hake inshore trawl
- Hake handline
- Hake long line
- South coast rock lobster
- West coast rock lobster
- Abalone
- Large pelagics (tunas and swordfish)
- Small pelagics (anchovies and pilchards)
- Traditional linefish (which includes some 150 species of fish)
- Net fishing
- Mussels
- Oysters
- Seaweed
- Squid
- Prawn trawl
- Horse mackerel (mid water trawl)
- Patagonian Toothfish
- Tuna handline (pole)
- Mariculture
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