This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to monitor facilities and practices in both wild stock fisheries and aquaculture environments for compliance with a range of legislative and regulatory requirements.

The unit applies to individuals who communicate with industry and the wider community to promote awareness of compliance, conduct site inspections, monitor organisations and prepare and submit compliance reports.

All work must be carried out to comply with workplace procedures, according to state/territory health and safety, biosecurity and environmental regulations, legislation and standards that apply to the workplace.

Regulatory requirements apply to this unit. Users are required to check with the relevant jurisdiction for current requirements.

An individual demonstrating competency must satisfy all of the elements and performance criteria in this unit.

There must be evidence that the individual has conducted activities to implement fisheries compliance on at least one occasion, including:

establishing and applying current fisheries management legislation, regulations and codes of practice relevant to the jurisdiction

communicating compliance-related matters as part of an industry or community enquiry or forum

conducting a site inspection to monitor compliance for at least one fishery organisation

responding to and reporting on compliance monitoring activities.

An individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge required to perform the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit. This includes knowledge of:

common fishery stock in the region, and its lifecycle

fisheries management practices used in the region

health and disease problems associated with fishery stock in the region, including procedures to identify disease and protected species, assess results of mass mortality events and take samples

jurisdictional policies and procedures for monitoring fishery compliance, including record-keeping protocols

principles of environmental sustainability

legislation, regulations and codes of practice relevant to fishery management

requirements for site inspections of associated fishery management equipment, natural and manufactured structures and systems.

Assessment of the skills in this unit of competency must take place under the following conditions:

physical conditions:

skills must be conducted in a fisheries management compliance monitoring setting or an environment that accurately represents workplace conditions

resources, equipment and materials:

range of reportable events

specifications:

access to relevant jurisdictional policies and procedures, legislation, regulations and codes of practice for implementing fishery compliance

licensing terms and conditions.

Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential for performance in this unit of competency but are not explicit in the performance criteria.

Compliance (CPL)