{"id":"spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004","name":"SPANISH MACKEREL FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLAN 2004","slug":"spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"nt","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":177151,"registerId":"nt-spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"SPANISH MACKEREL FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLAN 2004","content":"NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA\nSPANISH MACKEREL FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLAN 2004\nAs in force at 1 January 2010\nTable of provisions\nPart 1 Preliminary\n1 Citation ............................................................................................ 1\n2 Commencement .............................................................................. 1\n3 Application of Plan ........................................................................... 1\n4 Definitions ........................................................................................ 1\nPart 2 Management of fishery\n5 Objects ............................................................................................ 2\n6 Allowable catch................................................................................ 3\n7 Review of management of fishery ................................................... 3\nPart 3 Licensing\n8 Restricted licences .......................................................................... 4\n9 Unrestricted licences ....................................................................... 4\n10 Number of licences .......................................................................... 4\nPart 4 Commercial fishing\n11 Application of Part ........................................................................... 5\n12 Prohibition of taking and possession of certain fish ......................... 5\n13 Prohibition on use of fishing gear to take fish .................................. 5\n14 Prohibition on use of fishing gear to take bait .................................. 5\n15 Dories .............................................................................................. 6\nPart 5 Amateur fishing\n16 Limit in number of spanish mackerel in possession of person\ncarrying out amateur fishing ............................................................ 6\nPart 6 Repeal\n17 Repeal of Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan ................. 7\nENDNOTES\n\n\n\nNORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA\n____________________\nAs in force at 1 January 2010\n____________________\nSPANISH MACKEREL FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLAN 2004\nPlan under the Fisheries Act 1988\nPart 1 Preliminary\n1 Citation\nThis Plan may be cited as the Spanish Mackerel Fishery\nManagement Plan 2004.\n2 Commencement\nThis Plan comes into operation on 1 January 2005.\n3 Application of Plan\nThis Plan applies to the Spanish mackerel fishery declared under\nsection 22 of the Act to be a managed fishery by notice published in\nGazette G28 dated 17 July 1991 at page 2.\n4 Definitions\nIn this Plan, unless the contrary intention appears:\nallowable catch has the meaning in clause 6(1).\ndory means a vessel that is used in conjunction with the mother\nboat for trolling under a licence.\nfishery means the fishery to which this Plan applies under\nclause 3.\nfloating handline means a line to which is attached only one of the\nfollowing:\n(a) one hook;\n(b) one set of joined hooks.\nlicence means a restricted licence or unrestricted licence.\n\nPart 2 Management of fishery\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan 2004 2\nlicensee means the holder of a licence, and includes a person\nassisting a licensee conduct operations for the purposes of the\nlicence.\nlure means a device designed to attract or capable of attracting fish\nother than bait or berley.\nrelease, in relation to a fish, means release back into the water\nfrom where it was taken as soon as practicable after it was taken.\nrestricted licence has the meaning in clause 8(1).\nspanish mackerel means fish of the species Scomberomorus\ncommerson.\nspanish mackerel restricted bait net means a net that:\n(a) has both pocket and net made of mesh not larger than 65 mm;\n(b) has a drop of not more than 5 m; and\n(c) excluding the length of any haul lines attached to it, is not\nlonger than 100 m or, if it is used as a surrounding net from a\nvessel, 200 m.\ntroll line means a line to which is attached only one of the\nfollowing:\n(a) one hook;\n(b) one set of joined hooks attached to the one piece of bait;\n(c) one lure to which hooks may be attached.\nunrestricted licence has the meaning in clause 9(2).\nPart 2 Management of fishery\n5 Objects\nThe objects of this Plan are:\n(a) to control the taking of spanish mackerel from the fishery by\ncommercial fishing licensees, Fishing Tour Operator licensees\nand amateur fishers, whether taken as the principal catch or\nincidentally when taking fish from another fishery and whether\nor not the fisher releases the fish;\n\nPart 2 Management of fishery\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan 2004 3\n(b) to ensure the fishery is not endangered, detrimentally affected\nor overexploited by managing the fishery in accordance with\nthe principles of ecologically sustainable development; and\n(c) to encourage fishing in the fishery by maintaining the level and\nquality of the yield from the fishery and ensuring Aborigines,\ncommercial fishing licensees, Fishing Tour Operator licensees\nand amateur fishers have adequate access to the fishery.\n6 Allowable catch\n(1) The allowable catch of spanish mackerel for a year is 450 tonne\n(greenweight).\n(2) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, allocate the allowable\ncatch to a stated person or persons.\n(3) The notice may state the method (if any) by which the allowable\ncatch is allocated.\n7 Review of management of fishery\n(1) The Director must conduct a review of the management of the\nfishery if:\n(a) the amount of spanish mackerel taken from the fishery in a\nyear is at least 90% of the allowable catch;\n(b) the amount of spanish mackerel taken from the fishery in a\nyear is at least 30% less than was taken in the previous year;\n(c) the amount of spanish mackerel taken from the fishery in a\nyear by Aborigines, Fishing Tour Operator licensees and\namateur fishers is at least 20% less than taken by them in the\nprevious year;\n(d) the amount of spanish mackerel taken from the fishery in a\nyear by commercial fishing licensees authorised to take\nspanish mackerel is at least 20% less than taken by those\nlicensees in the previous year;\n(e) the amount of fish of species other than spanish mackerel\ntaken in a year by commercial fishing licensees authorised to\ntake spanish mackerel while fishing for spanish mackerel is\nmore than 10% of the amount of spanish mackerel taken by\nthose licensees in that year; or\n(f) the amount of spanish mackerel taken in a year by a person\nfor whom the Minister has determined an allowable catch\nexceeds that catch.\n\nPart 3 Licensing\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan 2004 4\n(2) For subclause (1), the amount of spanish mackerel taken from the\nfishery in a year is the amount decided by the Director using\nrecords, returns and information supplied by persons to the Director\nfor the purposes of the Act.\nPart 3 Licensing\n8 Restricted licences\n(1) A restricted licence is a Spanish Mackerel Fishery licence granted\nto a person because the person held a pelagic licence endorsed for\ntrolling in 1992.\n(2) Subject to subclause (3), the licensee may:\n(a) take fish in accordance with the licence; and\n(b) transfer the licence to another person.\n(3) A person to whom the licence is transferred on or after 1 July 1994\nmay not take fish under the licence but may transfer the licence to\nanother person.\n9 Unrestricted licences\n(1) A person who holds 2 restricted licences may surrender both\nlicences to the Territory.\n(2) On the surrender of the licences, the Director must issue to the\nperson one Spanish Mackerel Fishery licence (an unrestricted\nlicence).\n(3) The licensee may:\n(a) take fish in accordance with the licence; and\n(b) transfer the licence.\n10 Number of licences\n(1) Subject to subclauses (2) and (3), the Director must not grant more\nlicences than the number of licences held before the\ncommencement of this Plan.\n(2) If a licensee surrenders a licence to the Territory (other than under\nclause 9) or a licence is cancelled or expires without being\nrenewed, the number of licences that may be in force is reduced by\none.\n\nPart 4 Commercial fishing\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan 2004 5\n(3) If a person is issued an unrestricted licence under clause 9 on the\nsurrender of 2 licences, the number of licences that may be in force\nis reduced by one.\nPart 4 Commercial fishing\n11 Application of Part\nThis Part applies to a licensee conducting operations for the\npurposes of a licence.\n12 Prohibition of taking and possession of certain fish\nA licensee must not take or have possession of the following\nspecies:\n(a) barramundi (Lates calcarifer);\n(b) mud crab (a crab of the genus Scylla);\n(c) shark (a fish of the Class Chondricthyes);\n(d) threadfin salmon (Polynemus sheridani).\nMaximum penalty: $5 000.\n13 Prohibition on use of fishing gear to take fish\nA licensee must not use fishing gear, other than any number or\ncombination of troll lines, floating handlines or rods, to take fish\nunder the licence.\nMaximum penalty: $10 000.\n14 Prohibition on use of fishing gear to take bait\n(1) A licensee must not use fishing gear, other than a spanish mackerel\nrestricted bait net, to take bait.\nMaximum penalty: $5 000.\n(2) A licensee who is using a spanish mackerel restricted bait net must\nnot do any of the following:\n(a) haul the net other than by hand;\n(b) stake or otherwise fix the net at more than one end;\n(c) use the net in less than 30 cm of water while clearing the\ncatch in the net;\n\nPart 5 Amateur fishing\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan 2004 6\n(d) use the net in the Mary River Fish Management Zone within\nthe meaning of the Barramundi Fishery Management\nPlan 1998;\n(e) use the bait taken from the net other than as bait to take fish\nunder his or her licence.\nMaximum penalty: $5 000.\n15 Dories\n(1) A licensee must not use a dory that is more than 6.5 m long.\nMaximum penalty: $10 000.\n(2) A licensee must not operate a dory independently from the mother\nboat for more than 6 hours.\nMaximum penalty: $10 000.\n(3) A licensee must not operate more than 2 dories under the licence.\nMaximum penalty: $10 000.\nPart 5 Amateur fishing\n16 Limit in number of spanish mackerel in possession of person\ncarrying out amateur fishing\n(1) A person carrying out amateur fishing must not have possession of\nmore than 2 spanish mackerel.\nMaximum penalty: For possession of 3 spanish mackerel –\n$5 500.\nFor possession of 4 or more spanish\nmackerel – $10 000 plus $1 000 for each\nspanish mackerel in possession that is in\nexcess of 4.\n(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to spanish mackerel:\n(a) taken under a licence; or\n(b) at the person's permanent residence.\n\nPart 6 Repeal\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan 2004 7\nPart 6 Repeal\n17 Repeal of Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan\nThe Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan that came into\noperation on 1 February 1993 is repealed.\n\nENDNOTES\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan 2004 8\nENDNOTES\n1 KEY\nKey to abbreviations\namd = amended od = order\napp = appendix om = omitted\nbl = by-law pt = Part\nch = Chapter r = regulation/rule\ncl = clause rem = remainder\ndiv = Division renum = renumbered\nexp = expires/expired rep = repealed\nf = forms s = section\nGaz = Gazette sch = Schedule\nhdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision\nins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation\nlt = long title sub = substituted\nnc = not commenced\n2 LIST OF LEGISLATION\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan (SL No. 44, 2004)\nNotified 1 January 2005\nCommenced 1 January 2005\nSpanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan Amendment 2009 (SL No. 41, 2009)\nNotified 21 December 2009\nCommenced 1 January 2010\n3 GENERAL AMENDMENTS\nGeneral amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table\nof amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation\nAmendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) to: cl 1 and 14.\n4 LIST OF AMENDMENTS\ncl 12 – 15 amd No. 41, 2009, cl 5\ncl 16 amd No. 41, 2009, r 4","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The gap between the plan being made in 2004 and commencing in 2010, combined with seven reprints, strongly suggests the scope and content of the plan has evolved materially from its original form. Seven reprints over the life of a fishery management plan indicates multiple rounds of amendments, likely reflecting changes in fish stock assessments, quota arrangements, licensing structures, or fishing methods. The original 2004 intent has almost certainly been modified, though the extent cannot be fully determined from the metadata alone."},"complexity_factors":["Limited detail provided in the source text — full plan content not included, making comprehensive analysis difficult","Fishery management plans typically involve technical scientific concepts (sustainable yield, stock assessments) alongside legal obligations","Multiple reprints (Reprint 7) suggest amendments over time, creating potential complexity around which version applies and what has changed","Intersection of Commonwealth and State fisheries jurisdiction can create confusion about which rules apply where","Licensing and quota systems in fisheries management can be administratively complex for those subject to them","Gap between 2004 making date and 2010 commencement date may create interpretive questions about the plan's history and transition provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This Fishery Management Plan sets the legal rules for commercial Spanish mackerel fishing in Queensland—who may fish, catch limits, permitted gear and methods, area/season controls and reporting duties. It affects commercial fishers and fishing businesses (and may touch recreational activity), aiming to sustain stocks and livelihoods. Made in 2004, it commenced 1 Jan 2010, has been reprinted/updated several times (Reprint 7), and is administered by the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation appears consistent with its original intent as a targeted fishery management plan. The 2009 amendments (referenced in endnotes) appear to be minor technical updates to clauses 12-16 rather than scope expansion. The plan maintains its focused purpose of regulating a single species fishery through licence caps, gear restrictions, and catch limits."},"complexity_factors":["15 defined terms in the interpretation section (clause 4), including technical fishing gear specifications","Nested conditional logic in clause 8(3) regarding licence transfers and fishing rights","Complex licence conversion mechanism in clause 9 (surrender 2 restricted → 1 unrestricted)","Six separate triggering conditions for mandatory review in clause 7(1), some with percentage calculations","Cross-reference to external legislation (Fisheries Act 1988, Barramundi Fishery Management Plan 1998)","Tiered penalty structure in clause 16 with escalating fines based on number of fish possessed","Multiple exceptions and qualifications throughout (e.g., clause 16(2) exemptions for licensed fishers and home possession)"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this legislation does:**\n\nThis is a **fisheries management plan** for the Northern Territory that controls how people catch Spanish mackerel (a popular game and commercial fish species, scientifically known as *Scomberomorus commerson*).\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- **Commercial fishers** who hold special licences to catch Spanish mackerel\n- **Fishing tour operators** (charter boats)\n- **Amateur/recreational fishers**\n- **Aboriginal fishers** (specifically mentioned regarding access rights)\n\n**Key rules:**\n\n- **Catch limits:** The total commercial catch is capped at **450 tonnes per year** (called the \"allowable catch\"). The Minister can allocate portions of this to specific people.\n\n- **Licence system:** \n  - **Restricted licences:** Only available to people who held specific pelagic fishing licences in 1992. These can be transferred, but if transferred after July 1994, the new holder can't actually fish—only transfer it again.\n  - **Unrestricted licences:** Created when someone surrenders two restricted licences. These allow actual fishing.\n  - **Cap on licences:** No new licences beyond what existed when this plan started (2005), except through the \"two-for-one\" surrender system.\n\n- **Fishing gear restrictions:** Commercial fishers can only use:\n  - Troll lines (fishing lines with single hooks or lures)\n  - Floating handlines\n  - Rods\n  - Special bait nets with specific size limits (mesh no bigger than 65mm, maximum length 100m or 200m if used as a surrounding net)\n\n- **Banned species:** Commercial fishers cannot catch barramundi, mud crabs, sharks, or threadfin salmon while fishing for Spanish mackerel.\n\n- **Dory rules:** Small support boats (\"dories\") used with mother vessels must be under 6.5 metres, can't operate independently for more than 6 hours, and no more than 2 per licence.\n\n- **Amateur limits:** Recreational fishers can only possess **2 Spanish mackerel** at a time (unless at home or holding a commercial licence).\n\n- **Automatic reviews:** The Director must review fishery management if catch levels hit certain triggers—like reaching 90% of the limit, dropping 30% from previous year, or bycatch exceeding 10%.\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThis plan tries to balance three competing interests: protecting fish stocks from overfishing (ecologically sustainable development), maintaining commercial fishing businesses, and ensuring Aboriginal people, charter operators, and recreational fishers all get fair access to the fishery. It uses a \"cap and trade\" style system where licences are limited and transferable, creating a market for fishing rights."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Plan continues and replaces the earlier Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan (1993) (clause 17) and retains the core purpose of managing access, effort and gear to sustain the spanish mackerel resource (clause 5). Later amendments (noted in the Endnotes) adjusted gear and possession provisions (clauses 12–16) but did not expand the Plan beyond its original function of fisheries management. The Plan’s mechanics — a single annual total allowable catch, licence-based access with a capped number of licences, gear and operational restrictions, and review triggers — remain focused on resource control rather than creating new unrelated regulatory objectives."},"complexity_factors":["Relatively short instrument: 17 clauses plus interpretation/definitions","Around 15 defined terms in clause 4 (e.g., allowable catch, licence, dory, troll line, restricted bait net)","Single quantitative limit (450 t) but with ministerial allocation power (clause 6)","Multiple review-trigger conditions in clause 7 (six distinct triggers) and reliance on Director’s calculation using statutory returns","Two licence classes (restricted and unrestricted) with legacy transfer and surrender mechanics (clauses 8–10)","Numeric and operational technical specifications (mesh size, drop, net length, dory length, independent operation time) create compliance detail (clauses 14–15)","Several different penalty levels and tiered fines for amateur possession (clause 16) and varied maximum penalties across provisions","Cross-references to other instruments/Acts (Fisheries Act 1988; Mary River Fish Management Zone in Barramundi Plan)","Surrender mechanics that permanently reduce the maximum number of licences (clause 10(2)–(3)) add state-change complexity"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this Plan does (mechanics)\n\n- Applies to: the Spanish mackerel fishery declared a managed fishery under the Fisheries Act (the Plan governs fishing for Scomberomorus commerson in that fishery) (clause 3).\n\n- Sets a fixed annual catch limit: the total allowable catch for the fishery is 450 tonnes (greenweight) per year (clause 6(1)). The Minister can allocate that allowable catch to particular persons and specify how it is allocated (clause 6(2)–(3)).\n\n- Triggers an administrative review when certain indicators change materially: the Director must review management if one of several thresholds is met (for example, catch ≥ 90% of allowable catch; catch drops by ≥ 30% from the prior year; specified groups’ take drops by ≥ 20%; bycatch of other species exceeds 10% of spanish mackerel take; or a person exceeds a Minister-determined allowable catch) (clause 7). The Director uses records and returns supplied under the Fisheries Act to decide amounts (clause 7(2)).\n\n- Controls access through two licence types and a licence cap: there are \"restricted\" and \"unrestricted\" Spanish mackerel licences created by reference to historic entitlement and surrender rules (clauses 8–9). The Director must not grant more licences than the number that existed before this Plan commenced; if licences are surrendered or lapse the total permissible number falls (clause 10).\n\n- Limits what commercial licence-holders may do: a licence-holder must not take or possess certain species (barramundi, mud crab, sharks, threadfin salmon) while operating under the licence (maximum penalty $5,000) (clause 12). Licence-holders may use only troll lines, floating handlines or rods for taking fish under the licence (maximum penalty $10,000) (clause 13).\n\n- Restricts bait-taking gear and sets technical specs: licence-holders may only take bait using a \"spanish mackerel restricted bait net\" (mesh ≤ 65 mm, drop ≤ 5 m, length ≤ 100 m or 200 m if used as a surrounding net from a vessel). Additional operational restrictions apply (no mechanical hauling, no staking at more than one end, minimum water depth when clearing, area prohibition in Mary River Fish Management Zone, and limits on use of bait) with penalties up to $5,000 (clause 14).\n\n- Limits dory use: a dory used with the licence must be ≤ 6.5 m long; cannot operate independently from the mother boat for more than 6 hours; and no more than two dories may be operated under a licence (penalties up to $10,000) (clause 15).\n\n- Limits on recreational (amateur) possession: a person doing amateur fishing must not possess more than two spanish mackerel (penalty schedule: $5,500 for possession of 3, $10,000 plus $1,000 for each fish beyond 4). Exemptions: fish taken under a licence and fish at a person's permanent residence (clause 16).\n\n- Repeals the earlier 1993 Plan (clause 17).\n\n\nWhy the Plan says it exists (stated purpose) and how that maps to the mechanics\n\n- The Plan sets out its objects as: controlling taking by commercial, Fishing Tour Operator and amateur fishers (clause 5(a)); managing the fishery on ecologically sustainable development principles to avoid endangering or overexploiting the resource (clause 5(b)); and maintaining yield and access for Aboriginal people, commercial operators, tour operators and amateurs (clause 5(c)).\n\n- Mechanisms that implement those objects are a hard annual total allowable catch with ministerial allocation powers (clause 6); licence caps and legacy-based licence classes (clauses 8–10) that limit entry; gear and bycatch restrictions (clauses 12–15) that reduce incidental impacts; and an administrative review regime that is triggered by quantitative thresholds (clause 7).\n\n\nWho decides, who pays, and how behaviour changes\n\n- Decision-makers: the Minister may allocate the allowable catch and determine person-specific allowable catches (clause 6); the Director measures catches using returns and decides when statutory review triggers are met and issues licences under the Plan (clause 7 and parts 3 & 4).\n\n- Who bears costs: commercial licensees and fishing-tour operators bear compliance costs (gear restrictions, licence conditions, record-keeping), the opportunity cost of limited licences, and the risk of financial penalties for breaches. Amateur fishers face direct limits on possession and monetary penalties for breaches. The Territory bears administrative costs of monitoring, allocation decisions and enforcement.\n\n- Expected behavioural changes: licence-holders will shift to permitted gear (troll lines, floating handlines, rods) and restricted bait methods; reduce or avoid taking the listed prohibited species while operating under a Spanish mackerel licence; limit dory use and coordinate operations with mother boats; and potentially trade or surrender licences in response to the licence-cap and transfer rules. Amateurs will limit possession to two spanish mackerel or move catches to a permanent residence to avoid breach.\n\n\nCosts, incentives, trade-offs and implementation risks (mechanisms, not judgements)\n\n- Concentration of rights: the Minister’s ability to allocate the 450 t total to particular persons (clause 6(2)) concentrates catch rights; this benefits allocated holders but restricts others. That allocation power creates incentives to secure allocations and may raise the economic value of licences.\n\n- Entry constraint and licence value: the cap on licence numbers tied to the pre-commencement stock (clause 10) reduces new entry; surrender rules that lower the allowable total number (clause 10(2)–(3)) can permanently shrink access and increase scarcity value for existing licence-holders.\n\n- Compliance and monitoring burden: the Director relies on records and returns to measure catch and trigger reviews (clause 7(2)). Accurate measurement requires consistent reporting and enforcement resources; under-reporting would affect the Plan’s trigger-based review system.\n\n- Gear and bycatch trade-offs: limiting commercial gear to trolling and handlines (clause 13) reduces certain bycatch risks but may lower efficiency of taking target fish, change trip economics, or shift fishing effort into other areas or fisheries.\n\n- Enforcement and penalties: the Plan uses monetary penalties (specified amounts in clauses 12–16) rather than licence-forfeiture schemes in most provisions; the deterrent effect depends on detection and prosecution capacity.\n\n- Adaptive management: the Director’s review triggers (clause 7) create a rule-based mechanism for management change when biological or fishery indicators move; however, frequent triggers could impose administrative workloads and uncertainty for fishers.\n\n\nPractical immediate effects and compliance checkpoints\n\n- Commercial operators must check licence class and transfer rules before buying/transferring licences (clauses 8–10).\n- Observe tight gear specifications for bait nets and operational rules for dories (clauses 14–15).\n- Keep accurate records and returns because catches are used to decide review triggers (clause 7(2)).\n- Recreational fishers must keep possession to two spanish mackerel except when fish are at permanent residence or taken under a licence (clause 16).\n\n\nSource notes\n\n- Clauses cited above are to the Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan 2004 as printed in the Plan text (clauses are indicated in parentheses). The Plan also records that clauses 12–15 and 16 were amended in 2009 (Endnotes)."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004","history":"/api/acts/spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004/history","analysis":"/api/acts/spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/spanish-mackerel-fishery-management-plan-2004/documents"}}