Elements and Performance Criteria
- Position operation to optimise fishing opportunity
- Position of vessel is accurately determined within the limitations of equipment and methods available.
- Vessel is positioned at decided location at correct time for fishing operations.
- Vessel position is maintained within areas of safe operation.
- Vessel is positioned to take account of all relevant environmental factors.
- All sources of relevant information are obtained to aid decision making.
- Area of operation is altered in response to available information to optimise fishing opportunity.
- Vessel position complies with all relevant state, territory and federal regulations.
- Detect and identify fish concentrations and suitable fishing environments
- Electronic aids are operated to optimise available information.
- Available indications are interpreted to extract all available relevant information.
- Size, density, position and movement of fish concentrations are accurately determined within the limitations of available information.
- Relevant environmental factors are accurately determined within the limitations of available information.
- Fishing environment selected is appropriate to target species and fishing gear.