Northern Prawn Fishery Amendment (Closures) Direction No. 2 2020 (Cth)

Northern Prawn Fishery Amendment (Closures) Direction No. 2 2020

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

Dated:  13  November 2020

Wez Norris

Chief Executive Officer

1  Citation

This Direction is the Northern Prawn Fishery Amendment (Closures) Direction No. 2 2020.

2  Commencement

This Direction commences on 19 November 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 10.3

Omit the subsection, substitute:

10.3     Fishing is not to be engaged in in the fishery during the period commencing at 2230 hours UTC on 20 November 2020 and ending at 2200 hours UTC on 30 November 2020.