Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Overcatch and Undercatch) Determination 2020 (Cth)

Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Overcatch and Undercatch) Determination 2020

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority makes the following determination in accordance with a decision made by the AFMA Commission under section 23 of the Fisheries Administration Act 1991.

Dated               17 March 2020                                   

Sally Weekes

Acting Executive Secretary
for and on behalf of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Revocation................................................................................................................................ 1

4 Authority................................................................................................................................... 1

5  Definitions................................................................................................................................ 1

6  Determination of overcatch and undercatch.............................................................................. 2

1  Name

This instrument is the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Overcatch and Undercatch) Determination 2020.

2  Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	1 May 2020	1 May 2020

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Revocation

This instrument is revoked on 1 May 2021. 

4  Authority

This instrument is made under paragraph 17(6)(aa) of the Act for the purpose of subsection 24(1) of the Management Plan.

5  Definitions

(1) In this instrument:

Act means the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Management Plan means the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan 2003. 

(2) In this Determination, the terms ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the table in clause 6, in relation to the species ‘Deepwater shark’ mean:

(i)  East – the Gemfish eastern zone, as defined in Schedule 1, Part 3 section 1 of the Management Plan.

(ii)  West – the Gemfish western zone, as defined in Schedule 1, Part 3 section 2 of the Management Plan.

(3) In this Determination, the terms ‘Cascade Plateau’ and ‘Other’ in the table in clause 6, in relation to the species ‘Smooth oreo dory’ mean:

(i)  Cascade Plateau – the orange roughy Cascade Plateau zone of the fishery, as defined in clause 4 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 of the Management Plan.

(ii)  Other – areas of the fishery outside the orange roughy Cascade Plateau zone of the fishery, as defined in clause 4 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 of the Management Plan.

(4) A term used in this Determination that is defined for the purposes of the Management Plan has the same meaning in this Determination as it has in that Plan.         

Note: Terms defined in the Act have the same meaning in this instrument (see paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003).

6  Determination of overcatch and undercatch

  For the purposes of section 24 of the Management Plan the ‘determined amount’ and ‘determined percentages’ for each quota species for the fishery for the 2020 fishing year commencing on 1 May 2020 and ending on 30 April 2021 are:

Item	Column 1 Species of fish	Column 2 Determined Percentage (Overcatch – s22 and s22A)	Column 3 Determined Percentage (Undercatch – s23)	Column 4 Determined Amount (s22A) (kg)
1	Alfonsino	10	10	2,000
2	Bight redfish	10	10	2,000
3	Blue eye trevalla	10	10	2,000
4	Blue grenadier	10	10	2,000
5	Blue warehou	None	None	2,000
6	Deepwater flathead	10	10	2,000
7	Deepwater shark basket – East	10	10	2,000
8	Deepwater shark basket - West	10	10	2,000
9	Elephant fish	10	10	2,000
10	Flathead	10	10	2,000
11	Gemfish (eastern)	None	None	2,000
12	Gemfish (western)	10	10	2,000
13	Gummy shark	10	10	2,000
14	Jackass morwong	10	10	2,000
15	John dory	10	10	2,000
16	Mirror dory	10	10	2,000
17	Ocean perch	10	10	2,000
18	Orange roughy (GAB Albany and Esperance zones)	None	None	2,000
19	Orange roughy (Cascade Plateau)	10	10	2,000
20	Orange roughy (eastern)	10	100	2,000
21	Orange roughy (southern)	None	None	2,000
22	Orange roughy (western)	None	None	2,000
23	Oreo, basket	10	10	2,000
24	Pink ling	10	10	2,000
25	Redfish	None	None	2,000
26	Ribaldo	10	10	2,000
27	Royal red prawn	10	10	2,000
28	Saw shark	10	10	2,000
29	School shark	None	None	2,000
30	School whiting	10	10	2,000
31	Silver trevally	10	10	2,000
32	Silver warehou	10	10	2,000
33	Smooth oreo dory – Cascade Plateau	10	10	2,000
34	Smooth oreo dory – Other	10	10	2,000