Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2020 (Cth)

Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) 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 total allowable catch—whole fishery............................................................ 2

7  Determination of total allowable catch—parts of the area of the fishery................................... 2

1  Name

This instrument is the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) 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.  All of the Provisions	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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 11(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. 

1. A term used in this instrument that is defined for the purposes of the Plan has the same meaning in this instrument as it has in the 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 total allowable catch—whole fishery

1. This section applies to the 2020 fishing year commencing on 1 May 2020 and ending on 30 April 2021. 

1. For a species of fish specified in an item in column 1 of the table, the total allowable catch, in tonnes, for that species is determined in column 2 on the basis of the preparation of the fish in accordance with column 3. 

Item	Column 1 Species of fish	Column 2 Total allowance catch	Column 3 Preparation
1	Alfonsino	1,017 tonnes	Whole weight
2	Bight redfish	893 tonnes	Whole weight
3	Blue eye trevalla	448 tonnes	Whole weight
4	Blue grenadier	12,183 tonnes	Whole weight
5	Blue warehou	118 tonnes	Whole weight
6	Deepwater flathead	1,238 tonnes	Whole weight
7	Elephant fish	114 tonnes	Trunked, bellyflaps removed
8	Flathead	2,010 tonnes	Whole weight
9	Gummy shark	1,775 tonnes	Trunked weight
10	Jackass morwong	468 tonnes	Whole weight
11	John dory	452 tonnes	Whole weight
12	Mirror dory	137 tonnes	Whole weight
13	Ocean perch	239 tonnes	Whole weight
14	Oreo, basket	185 tonnes	Whole weight
15	Pink ling	1,310 tonnes	Whole weight
16	Redfish	50 tonnes	Whole weight
17	Ribaldo	422 tonnes	Whole weight
18	Royal red prawn	403 tonnes	Whole weight
19	Sawshark	432 tonnes	Trunked weight
20	School shark	195 tonnes	Trunked weight
21	School whiting	788 tonnes	Whole weight
22	Silver trevally	289 tonnes	Whole weight
23	Silver warehou	450 tonnes	Whole weight

7  Determination of total allowable catch—parts of the area of the fishery

1. This section applies to the 2020 fishing year commencing on 1 May 2020 and ending on 30 April 2021. 

1. For a species of fish specified in an item in column 1 of the table in the zone, or zones, of the fishery in column 2, the total allowable catch, in tonnes, for that species in that part, or parts, of the area of the fishery is determined in column 3 on the basis of the preparation of the fish in accordance with column 4. 

Item	Column 1 Species of fish	Column 2 Part of the area of the fishery	Column 3 Total allowance catch	Column 4 Preparation
1	Deepwater shark, basket	Gemfish and deepwater shark eastern zone	24 tonnes	Trunked weight
2	Deepwater shark, basket	Gemfish and deepwater shark western zone	235 tonnes	Trunked weight
3	Gemfish	Gemfish and deepwater shark eastern zone	100 tonnes	Whole weight
4	Gemfish	Gemfish and deepwater shark western zone	300 tonnes	Whole weight
5	Orange roughy	Both the GAB Albany zone and GAB Esperance zone	50 tonnes	Whole weight
6	Orange roughy	Cascade Plateau zone	500 tonnes	Whole weight
7	Orange roughy	Orange roughy eastern zone	1,276 tonnes	Whole weight
8	Orange roughy	Orange roughy southern zone	125 tonnes	Whole weight
9	Orange roughy	Orange roughy western zone	60 tonnes	Whole weight
10	Smooth oreo dory	Cascade Plateau zone	150 tonnes	Whole weight
11	Smooth oreo dory	Other than Cascade Plateau zone	135 tonnes	Whole weight