Catch Reporting Notice No. 13 - Requirement to furnish information relating to the delivery of tropical rock lobster (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

Catch Reporting Notice No. 13

REQUIREMENT TO FURNISH INFORMATION

RELATING TO THE DELIVERY OF TROPICAL

ROCK LOBSTER

Pursuant to the powers conferred by paragraph 35(1) (a) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 (the Act), I, JOHN CHARLES KERIN, the Minister of State for Primary Industries and Energy, acting for and on behalf of the Protected Zone Joint Authority hereby:

(a)       revoke the instruments known as Catch Reporting Notices Nos.6 and 7, published in Gazette No. S280 of 22 July 1985, and Catch Reporting Notice No. 6A, published in Gazette No. GN43 of 16 November 1988;

(b)       pursuant to subsection 14 (3) of the Act, require a person who is:

(i)        the master of a boat in respect of which a licence is in force under subsection 19(3) and which is not concurrently licensed under subsection 19(2) of the Act;

(ii)       the operator of a fish processing facility that is in Australia;

(iii)      the master of, or a person on board, a boat used to carry fish from the Torres Strait Protected Zone; or

(iv)      the pilot of, or a person on board, an aircraft,

and who takes delivery (whether purchased or carried) of tropical rock lobster (Panulirus spp.) that have been taken in the course of commercial or community fishing during a period when this notice is in force, to furnish at that time the information specified in Schedule 1 in the manner specified in Schedule 2; and

(c)       declare that this notice shall come into force on September 1989.

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SCHEDULE 1

1.  The amount expressed as tail weight of tropical rock lobster delivered (whether purchased or carried) that was severally delivered to the boat, aircraft or processing plant:

(a)  in the area of Australian jurisdiction; and

(b)  in the area of Papua New Guinea jurisdiction.

2.  Where tropical rock lobster is received from a commercial boat over 6 metres in length, the name of the boat from which the product was received.

SCHEDULE 2

1.    The person furnishing the information shall forward it to:

The Officer-in-Charge,

Australian Fisheries Service,

PO Box 376,

THURSDAY ISLAND, QLD 4875,

in each case, stating his or her name and the name of the boat, aircraft or processing plant which has taken delivery of the tropical rock lobster.

2.    In any year, the person furnishing the information shall do so on the last day of each month.

Dated this eleventh day of August 1989.

JOHN KERIN