Torres Strait Fisheries Tropical Rock Lobster (Total Allowable Catch) Determination 2020 (Cth)

Torres Strait Fisheries Tropical Rock Lobster (Total Allowable Catch) Determination 2020

I, Jonathon Duniam, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries, make the following Determination.

Dated   27 August 2020

Senator the Hon. Jonathon Duniam

Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries 

1  Name

This instrument is the Torres Strait Fisheries Tropical Rock Lobster (Total Allowable Catch) Determination 2020.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Repeal

This instrument is repealed on the day after 30 September 2021 unless revoked earlier. 

4  Authority

This instrument is made pursuant to section 15A of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 and section 13 of the Torres Strait Fisheries (Quotas for Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar)) Management Plan 2018.

5  Definitions

Note:          A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in definitions section of the Management Plan, including the following:

a)fishing season;

b)tropical rock lobster;

c)TRL fishery; and

d)total allowable catch.

  In this instrument:

Management Plan means the Torres Strait Fisheries (Quotas for Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar)) Management Plan 2018.

6  Determination of total allowable catch

  For the fishing season commencing 1 December 2020, the total allowable catch of tropical rock lobster in the TRL fishery is 200,000 kilograms (unprocessed weight).