Catch Reporting Notice No. 8 - Requirement to furnish information relating to the taking of prawns in the course of commercial fishing (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

Catch Reporting Notice No. 8

REQUIREMENT TO FURNISH INFORMATION

RELATING TO THE TAKING OF PRAWNS IN THE

COURSE OF COMMERCIAL FISHING

IN accordance with the powers conferred by paragraph 35 (1) (a) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, the Protected Zone Joint Authority hereby:

(a)  revokes the instrument known as Catch Reporting Notice No. 3, made in pursuance of sub-sections 14 (1) and 14 (2) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, and published in Gazette No. S 44 of 19 February 1985;

(b) pursuant to sub-section 14 (1) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, requires the master of any boat being used to take prawns (family Penaeidae) in the course of commercial fishing in the area of Australian jurisdiction, to furnish the information specified in Schedule 1 in the manner specified in Schedule 3;

(c) pursuant to sub-section 14 (2) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, requires the master of any Australian boat or of any foreign boat in respect of which a licence is in force under section 19 of that Act, that is being used to take prawns in the course of commercial fishing in the area of Papua New Guinea jurisdiction, to furnish the information specified in Schedule 2 in the manner specified in Schedule 3; and

(d)  declares that this notice shall come into force on 1 January 1986.

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SCHEDULE 1

The amount, expressed as live weight, of prawns taken with the use of the boat, in the area of Australian jurisdiction during the period since the person first used the boat in the current year to take prawns or since the person last furnished information, as the case may be.

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SCHEDULE 2

The amount, expressed as live weight, of prawns taken with the use of the boat in the area of Papua New Guinea jurisdiction during the period since the person first used the boat in the current year to take prawns or since the person last furnished information, as the case may be.

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SCHEDULE 3

1.    The person furnishing the information shall forward it to the Officer-in-charge, Northern Fisheries Unit, Department of Primary Industry –

(a)        in respect of the months of January to July in any year, in an approved form addressed to Post Office Box 1089, Cairns, Qld 4870; or

(b)       in respect of the months of August to December in any year, by reverse-charge telegram addressed to Telex AA48061 FISHN,

in each case, stating the name and the place of abode of the person furnishing the information and the name of the boat.

2.    In any year, the person furnishing the information shall do so on the last day of the month in which the person first uses the boat to take prawns and, subject to paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Schedule, thereafter on the last day of each month.

3.    The person is not required to furnish information in relation to any continuous period of not less than 60 days during which the boat is not used to take prawns, provided that the person includes, with the information furnished in relation to the last month during which the person uses the boat to take prawns before that period commences, advice of the proposed first and last days of that period.

4.    A person is not required to furnish information more than once in relation to the area of Australian jurisdiction or in relation to the area of Papua New Guinea jurisdiction while a notice under sub-section 14 (6) or sub-section 14 (7) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, as the case may be, is in force prohibiting the taking of prawns in that area.

Dated this 11th day of July 1985.

JOHN KERIN

N. J. TURNER

For and on behalf of the

Protected Zone Joint Authority