North West Slope Fishery (Partial Area Closure) Direction 2007 (Cth)
North West Slope Fishery (Partial Area Closure) Direction 2007
Fisheries Management Act 1991
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority makes this Direction under s41A of the Fisheries Management Act 1991.
Dated 9 October 2007
| (signed) | |
| Peter Witheridge | Common Seal of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority |
Name of Direction
This Direction is the North West Slope Fishery (Partial Area Closure) Direction 2007.
Commencement
This Direction commences on the day after it is registered and ceases two years after the day it was registered.
Definitions
In this Direction
North West Slope Fishery means commercial fishing in the area set out in Part 6 of Schedule 1A of the Fisheries Management Regulations 1992.
Note 1 Unless otherwise stated, a term used in this Direction and in the Fisheries Management Act 1991 has the same meaning in this Direction as in the Fisheries Management Act 1991.
Origin of geographic co-ordinates
For points 1 to 23 in this Direction:
a.all geographic coordinates are expressed in terms of the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84); and
b.determination of the position on the surface of the Earth of a point or line is to be by reference to WGS 84, that is, by reference to a spheroid having its centre at the centre of the Earth and a major (equatorial) radius of 6,378,137 metres and a flattening of 1/298.257223563.
Application
This Direction applies to a person engaged in commercial fishing in the North West Slope Fishery.
Partial Closure
Commercial fishing in that part of the North West Slope Fishery described in Schedule 1 is prohibited.
Schedule 1
The area of the North West Slope Fishery that is closed to fishing is that part of the AFZ within the area bounded by a line commencing at the point of latitude 11º 55' south, longitude 125º 00'east (Point 1).
Thence south westerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 13º 02' south, longitude 124º 11' east, (Point 2).
Thence generally north-westerly along the geodesics sequentially connecting the following points:
Point Latitude Longitude 3 12º 54’ 46.3” south 124º 13’ 05.2” east 4 12º 52’ 01.6” south 124º 10’ 39.7” east 5 12º 50’ 18.7” south 124º 12’ 45.4” east 6 12º 50’ 16.1” south 123º 51’ 38.5” east 7 12º 53’ 35.2” south 123º 46’ 34.1” east 8 12º 47’ 49.9” south 123º 42’ 54.5” east 9 12º 49’ 11.5” south 123º 39’ 28.7” east 10 12º 45’ 10.4” south 123º 37’ 42.9” east 11 12º 45’ 22.6” south 123º 45’ 02.6” east 12 12º 41’ 00.2” south 123º 47’ 13.4” east 13 12º 38’ 35.0” south 123º 58’ 25.4” east 14 12º 39’ 58.1” south 123º 44’ 04.0” east 15 12º 36’ 28.9” south 123º 44’ 21.2” east 16 12º 35’ 44.1” south 123º 39’ 28.0” east 17 12º 33’ 10.5” south 123º 42’ 49.4” east 18 12º 33’ 20.8” south 123º 38’ 27.0” east 19 12º 24’ 52.9” south 123º 33’ 28.5” east 20 12º 23’ 23.2” south 123º 11’ 57.6” east
Thence north easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 12º 17’ 27.0” south, Longitude 123º 21’ 30.0” east (Point 21) closest to the point which is twelve miles distant from the nearest base point of the territorial sea of Ashmore Island;
Thence following a line each point of which is twelve miles distant from the nearest base point of the territorial sea of Ashmore Island to the point Latitude 12º 19' south, Longitude 123º 21' east (Point 22); and
Thence north easterly along the geodesic back to the point of commencement.
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