Fisheries (Abalone) Rules 2009 (TAS)

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Fisheries (Abalone) Rules 2009

I make the following rules under the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 .23 November 2009

D. E. LLEWELLYN

Minister for Primary Industries and Water

PART 1Preliminary1Short titleThese rules may be cited as the Fisheries (Abalone) Rules 2009 . 2CommencementThese rules take effect on 31 December 2009. 3InterpretationIn these rules – abalone means fish of the genus Haliotis; abalone container includes a fishing vessel carrying abalone; abalone meat means any part of the flesh of an abalone that has been removed from its shell other than – (a) in the course of cooking or being consumed; or (b) being processed at processing premises; abalone offal means the offal or viscera of abalone, excluding the shell and meat; abalone quota certificate means a certificate issued under rule 14 ; Act means the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 ; auxiliary boat means a dinghy, tender or other vessel that is  – (a) part of the equipment of a fishing vessel; and (b) transported with, and operates solely from, the fishing vessel; Bass Strait area means the area of State waters adjacent to the north coast of Tasmania and the Furneaux Group of islands in Bass Strait bounded in the west by the line of longitude 145° 22’ 42” East and in the east by an imaginary line beginning where the line of longitude 147° 27’ 00” East meets the high-water mark of the north coast of the mainland of Tasmania in Anderson Bay, then running due north until its junction with the line of latitude 40° 39’ South, then due east along that line of latitude to the limit of State waters; blacklip abalone means fish of the species Haliotis rubra; broodstock means abalone taken from State waters which are, or are intended to be, used as a source of culture stock; cauf means a type of apparatus that – (a) is used for holding live abalone; and (b) can sit in the water independently of a vessel; central western blacklip abalone part of the fishery is the part of the commercial abalone fishery determined under section 94 of the Act to be the central western blacklip abalone part of the fishery; changing part of fishery report means a report relating to changing the part of the fishery in which abalone are to be taken that is part of the records required to be kept under the Act; closed season means a season or period during which all or part of the abalone fishery is closed to fishing; commercial abalone dive docket means a docket relating to abalone quota that is part of records required to be kept under the Act; designated port means any one or more of the following: (a) Beauty Point; (b) Bridport; (c) Burnie; (d) Devonport; (e) George Town; (f) Killiecrankie on Flinders Island; (g) Lady Barron; (h) Low Head; (i) North East River; (j) Port Sorell; (k) Sisters Beach; (l) Tam O’Shanter…

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