Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management Plan (No. 3) 2001 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 2001 No. 298 Fisheries Act 1994 FISHERIES (EAST COAST TRAWL) AMENDMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN (No. 3) 2001 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Management plan amended. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Amendment of s 8 (What is a “permitted fish”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of ss 15A and 97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Amendment of s 24 (Fish regulated by number—sch 4, pt 1) . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6 Amendment of s 103 (Exception—movement only at travelling speed) . . . 3 7 Replacement of sch 4 (Regulated fish)— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SCHEDULE 4 REGULATED FISH 8 Amendment of sch 7 (Aids to interpretation and definitions) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 9 Omission of ss 27, 226 and 228 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 MINOR AMENDMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

s1 2 s5 Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management No. 298, 2001 Plan (No. 3) 2001 1 Short title This management plan may be cited as the Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management Plan (No. 3) 2001 . 2 Management plan amended This management plan amends the Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Management Plan 1999. 3 Amendment of s 8 (What is a “permitted fish”) (1) Section 8(1)— insert — ‘(ba) blue swimmer crabs;’ (2) Section 8(1), paragraphs (d), (j) and (k)— omit . (3) Section 8(2) and (3)— omit . 4 Amendment of ss 15A and 97 Sections 15A(7), definition “notional effort units” , and 97(2), ‘14’— omit, insert — ‘4’. 5 Amendment of s 24 (Fish regulated by number—sch 4, pt 1) (1) Section 24, heading— omit, insert— ‘24 Fish regulated by number or volume—sch 4, pts 1 and 2)’ (2) Section 24— insert—

s6 3 s7 Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management No. 298, 2001 Plan (No. 3) 2001 ‘ (1A) Fish mentioned in schedule 4, part 2 are regulated by the total volume stated opposite the name of the fish in schedule 4, part 2. 1 ’. (3) Section 24(2) and (3), after ‘number’— insert— ‘or total volume’. 6 Amendment of s 103 (Exception—movement only at travelling speed) Section 103(1)(b) and (2), ‘5.5 knots’— omit, insert — ‘5 knots’. 7 Replacement of sch 4 (Regulated fish)— Schedule 4— omit, insert — ‘SCHEDULE 4 ‘REGULATED FISH sections 23 to 27 ‘PART 1—FISH REGULATED BY NUMBER Regulated fish 1. Blue swimmer crabs taken— (a) in Moreton Bay and waterways joining it . . . . . . . Number 100 1 For measurement of volume of fish, see schedule 7, section 8A (Measurement of volume of fish)

s7 4 s7 Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management No. 298, 2001 Plan (No. 3) 2001 Regulated fish (b) elsewhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Pipefish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Number 500 50 ‘PART 2—FISH REGULATED BY VOLUME Regulated fish Volume 3. Cuttlefish— (a) if frozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0612 m 3 (b) otherwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 L 4. Mantis shrimp taken in Moreton Bay or waterways joining it— (a) if frozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0153 m 3 (b) otherwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 L 5. Octopuses— (a) if frozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0612 m 3 (b) otherwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 L 6. Pinkies— (a) if frozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1989 m 3 (b) otherwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 L ‘PART 3—FISH REGULATED BY GENDER 7. Egg bearing females of the following fish— (a) Balmain bugs; (b) barking crayfish; (c) bugs. 8. Female blue swimmer crabs. 9. Female red spot crabs (three spot crabs).

s8 5 s8 Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management No. 298, 2001 Plan (No. 3) 2001 ‘PART 4—FISH REGULATED BY SIZE 10. Balmain bugs with a carapace less than 10 cm. 11. Blue swimmer crabs with— (a) a carapace less than 15 cm; or (b) a body less than 3.7 cm. 12. Bugs with a carapace less than 7.5 cm. 13. Red spot crabs (three spot crabs) with a carapace less than 10 cm.’. 8 Amendment of sch 7 (Aids to interpretation and definitions) (1) Schedule 7, section 6, entry for ‘Balmain bug’, ‘ Ibacus peroni ’— omit, insert — ‘ Ibacus spp.’. (2) Schedule 7, section 6, entry for ‘pipefish’, ‘Family syngnathidae’— omit, insert — ‘ Solegnathus dunckeri, Solegnathus hardwickii ’. (3) Schedule 7, section 6, entries for ‘goatfish’, ‘shark’, and ‘twhiptails’— omit. (4) Schedule 7, section 7(4)— omit, insert— ‘ (4) Allen, Gerald R. 1997, ‘Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-East Asia’, 3rd revised edition, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia is the reference for the following— • pinkies • pipefish.’. (5) Schedule 7, section 8(2), ‘a bug’— omit, insert — ‘a Balmain bug, bug or red spot crab (three spot crab)’.

s9 6 s9 Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management No. 298, 2001 Plan (No. 3) 2001 (6) Schedule 7, part 1, division 3— insert— ‘8A Measurement of volume of fish ‘ (1) This section provides for how the total volume of fish is measured. ‘ (2) The volume of any fish that are in a container ( “contained fish” ) must be measured by reference to the volume of the container when it is empty. 2 ‘ (3) For subsection (2), a fish is not a contained fish if any part of it protrudes above the top of the container. ‘ (4) The volume of any of fish that are not contained fish ( “uncontained fish” ) must be measured by— (a) placing them in a container or containers so that no part of any of the fish protrudes above the top of the container or containers; and (b) measuring the volume of each container when it is empty; and (c) reference to the volume of the container or containers. ‘ (5) The total volume is worked out by adding together the volume of all of the contained and uncontained fish.’. 9 Omission of ss 27, 226 and 228 Sections 27, 226 and 228— omit. 2 An empty container that has internal dimensions of 571 mm x 381 mm x 305 mm, commonly called a ‘lug basket’, has a capacity of approximately 66 L. An empty container that has internal dimensions of 605 mm x 280 mm x 90 mm, commonly called a ‘prawn carton’, has a capacity of approximately 0.0153 m3.

7 Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management No. 298, 2001 Plan (No. 3) 2001 SCHEDULE MINOR AMENDMENTS section 2 1 Section 8(1)(ba) and (c)— renumber as paragraphs (c) and (d). 2 Section 8(1)(f) and schedule 7, section 7(6), ‘octopus’— omit, insert — ‘octopuses’. 3 Section 8(1)(i), ‘crabs;’— omit, insert — ‘crabs (three spot crabs).’. 4 Section 24(1A) to (4)— renumber as subsections (2) to (5). 5 Section 25, ‘2’— omit, insert — ‘3’. 6 Section 26, ‘3’— omit, insert — ‘4’.

8 Fisheries (East Coast Trawl) Amendment Management No. 298, 2001 Plan (No. 3) 2001 ENDNOTES 1. Made by the chief executive 19 December 2001. 2. Approved by the Governor in Council on 20 December 2001. 3. Notified in the gazette on 21 December 2001. 4. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 5. The administering agency is the Department of Primary Industries. © State of Queensland 2001