Section 1 - Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2026 - Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2026

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Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2026

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority makes the following determination.

Dated 11 March 2026

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 2026.

2 Commencement

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

3 Cessation

This instrument ceases on 1 May 2027.

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.

Note: Terms defined in the Act have the same meanings in this Instrument.

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	873 tonnes	Whole weight
3	Blue eye trevalla	279 tonnes	Whole weight
4	Blue grenadier	14 650 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	1 595 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	1 539 tonnes	Whole weight
16	Redfish	5 tonnes	Whole weight
17	Ribaldo	393 tonnes	Whole weight
18	Royal red prawn	462 tonnes	Whole weight
19	Saw shark	525 tonnes	Trunked weight
20	School shark	446 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	1 163 tonnes	Whole weight
8	Orange roughy	Orange roughy southern zone	119 tonnes	Whole weight
9	Orange roughy	Orange roughy western zone	200 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