Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Total Allowable Catch (Quota Species) Determination 2019 (Cth)

Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Total Allowable Catch (Quota Species) Determination 2019

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

Dated   22 March 2019

Andrew Pearson

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

1  Name

This instrument is the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Total Allowable Catch (Quota Species) Determination 2019.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3  Revocation

This instrument is revoked on 1 May 2020. 

4  Authority

This instrument is made under paragraph 17(6)(aa) of the Act for the purpose of subsection 11(1) of the 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 2003. 

(2)  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 2019 fishing year commencing on 1 May 2019 and ending on 30 April 2020. 

(2)  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	600 tonnes	Whole weight
3	Blue eye trevalla	458 tonnes	Whole weight
4	Blue grenadier	12,183 tonnes	Whole weight
5	Blue warehou	118 tonnes	Whole weight
6	Deepwater flathead	1,128 tonnes	Whole weight
7	Elephant fish	114 tonnes	Trunked, bellyflaps removed
8	Flathead	2,468 tonnes	Whole weight
9	Gummy shark	1,785 tonnes	Trunked weight
10	Jackass morwong	469 tonnes	Whole weight
11	John dory	395 tonnes	Whole weight
12	Mirror dory	188 tonnes	Whole weight
13	Ocean perch	241 tonnes	Whole weight
14	Oreo, basket	185 tonnes	Whole weight
15	Pink ling	1,288 tonnes	Whole weight
16	Redfish	50 tonnes	Whole weight
17	Ribaldo	422 tonnes	Whole weight
18	Royal red prawn	409 tonnes	Whole weight
19	Saw shark	430 tonnes	Trunked weight
20	School shark	189 tonnes	Trunked weight
21	School whiting	788 tonnes	Whole weight
22	Silver trevally	292 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 2019 fishing year commencing on 1 May 2019 and ending on 30 April 2020. 

(2)  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	200 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	900 tonnes	Whole weight
8	Orange roughy	Orange roughy southern zone	94 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	90 tonnes	Whole weight