Section 1 - Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2025 - Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2025

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority makes the following determination.

Dated 12th March 2025

Helen Kroger	Ian Dutton	Brett McCallum
Chair	Commissioner	Commissioner
Wez Norris	Sevaly Sen	Scott Spencer
Commissioner	Commissioner	Commissioner<br> <br> <br> <br>
Sally Troy
Commissioner

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Cessation

4 Authority

5 Definitions

6 Determination of total allowable catch – whole fishery

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

1 Name

This instrument is the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2025.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3 Cessation

This instrument ceases on 1 May 2026.

4 Authority

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

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) Any term used in this instrument that is defined for the purposes of the Management Plan has the same meaning in this instrument as it has in the Management Plan.

Item	Column 1<br>Species of fish	Column 2<br>Total allowable catch	Column 3<br>Preparation
1	Alfonsino	1 017 tonnes	Whole weight
2	Bight redfish	935 tonnes	Whole weight
3	Blue eye trevalla	282 tonnes	Whole weight
4	Blue grenadier	17 084 tonnes	Whole weight
5	Blue warehou	30 tonnes	Whole weight
6	Deepwater flathead	940 tonnes	Whole weight
7	Elephant fish	114 tonnes	Trunked, belly flaps removed
8	Flathead	2 333 tonnes	Whole weight
9	Gummy shark	1 564 tonnes	Trunked weight
10	Jackass morwong	50 tonnes	Whole weight
11	John dory	60 tonnes	Whole weight
12	Mirror dory	334 tonnes	Whole weight
13	Ocean perch	318 tonnes	Whole weight
14	Oreo, basket	137 tonnes	Whole weight
15	Pink ling	1 541 tonnes	Whole weight
16	Redfish	30 tonnes	Whole weight
17	Ribaldo	393 tonnes	Whole weight
18	Royal red prawn	628 tonnes	Whole weight
19	Saw shark	525 tonnes	Trunked weight
20	School shark	207 tonnes	Trunked weight
21	School whiting	1 202 tonnes	Whole weight
22	Silver trevally	25 tonnes	Whole weight
23	Silver warehou	350 tonnes	Whole weight

Item	Column 1<br>Species of fish	Column 2<br>Part of the area of the fishery	Column 3<br>Total allowable catch	Column 4<br>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	327 tonnes	Trunked weight
3	Gemfish	Gemfish and deepwater shark eastern zone	100 tonnes	Whole weight
4	Gemfish	Gemfish and deepwater shark western zone	180 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	397 tonnes	Whole weight
7	Orange roughy	Orange roughy eastern zone	880 tonnes	Whole weight
8	Orange roughy	Orange roughy southern zone	98 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