Northern Prawn Fishery Amendment (Closures) Direction No. 1 2020 (Cth)

Northern Prawn Fishery Amendment (Closures) Direction No. 1 2020

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

Dated:  9 June 2020

Wesley Norris

Chief Executive Officer

1  Citation

This Direction is the Northern Prawn Fishery Amendment (Closures) Direction No. 1 2020.

2  Commencement

This Direction commences on 10 June 2020.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Northern Prawn Fishery (Closures) Direction No. 171

1  Subsection 7.5

Omit the subsection, substitute:

7.5       Fishing is not to be engaged in in the area defined in Schedule 11 during the period commencing at 0800 hours UTC on 10 June 2020 and ending at 0200 hours UTC 15 June 2020.

2Subsection 7.6

Omit the subsection, substitute:

7.6       Fishing is not to be engaged in in waters west of the meridian of Longitude 138° E during the period commencing at 0800 hours UTC on 10 June 2020 and ending at 0230 hours UTC 15 June 2020.

3  Subsection 7.7

Omit the subsection, substitute:

7.7       Fishing is not to be engaged in in waters east of the meridian of Longitude 138° E between the hours of 2200 hours UTC and 0800 hours UTC each day, during the period commencing at 0800 hours UTC on 10 June 2020 and ending at 0200 hours UTC 15 June 2020.