Direction No. SSJFDIR 1 Bycatch Limits (26/10/2005) (Cth)

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991

SOUTHERN SQUID JIG FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLAN 2005

DIRECTION No. SSJFDIR 1

BYCATCH LIMITS

The AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY determines this Direction under section 17(5A) and 17(5B) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and section 18(1) of the Southern Squid Jig Fishery Management Plan 2005.

Dated 26 October 2005

                                           PETER WITHERIDGE

Common seal of the
Australian Fisheries
Management Authority

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Citation

1.       This Direction may be cited as Direction No. SSJFDIR 1.

Commencement and period of application

2.       This Direction commences on registration and ceases once revoked.

Interpretation

1. A term used in this Direction by way or priority, or if there is any inconsistency:

(a)     takes the meaning given to it in the Southern Squid Jig Fishery Management Plan 2005; and then

(b)     if no meaning is given to the word in the Southern Squid Jig Fishery Management Plan 2005, takes the meaning given to that word under the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Prohibition on bycatch

4.   This Direction prohibits the fishing for or taking of fish of the species named in parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

Exemptions to the prohibition on taking fish in clause 4

5.   The prohibition in clause 4 does not apply, if in any one fishing trip:

(a)    the total combined weight of fish taken and carried is less than 100 kilograms, and

(b)   does not include any fish of the species described in parts 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Part 1

Fish species of the Superclass Pisces

Part 2

Common name	Scientific Name
Blue Eye Trevalla	Hyperoglyphe antarctica
Pink Ling	Genypterus blacodes
Blue Warehou	Seriolella brama
Gemfish	Rexea solandri

Part 3

Common name	Family Name
Tuna	Scombridae – except fish of the genera Scomberomorus, Scomber, Acanthocybium, Rastrelliger and Grammatorcynus
marlins	Istiophoridae
billfish	Xiphiidae