Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 2 2022 (Cth)

Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 2 2022

I, Wez Norris, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, make the following direction. 

Dated: 25 July 2022

Wez Norris

Chief Executive Officer

1  Name

This instrument is the Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 2 2022.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 41A(3) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment

Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Direction 2021

1          Subsection 11(3)

Omit the subsection, substitute:

Insert:

(3)        Fishing is not to be engaged in the fishery defined in Schedule 1 during the period commencing at 2200 hours UTC on 31 October 2022 and ending at 2200 hours UTC on 30 November 2022.

2          Subsection 11(4)

Insert:

(4)        Fishing is not to be engaged in the fishery defined in Schedule 2 during the period commencing at 2230 hours UTC on 31 October 2022 and ending at 2230 hours UTC on 30 November 2022.