1Fisheries Management (Multiple Fishery Closures) Direction 2024

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Fisheries Management (Multiple Fishery Closures) Direction 2024

I, Wez Norris, the Chief Executive Officer, make the following instrument.

Dated 9 January 2024   

Wez Norris

Chief Executive Officer

Australian Fisheries Management Authority

 

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

6  To Whom this instrument applies

7 Direction not to engage in fishing

8 Geographic coordinates

Schedule 1—Repeals

Multiple Fishery (Closures) Direction No. 1 2014

Annexure A - North-West Shelf

Annexure B – Christmas Island

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Fisheries Management (Multiple Fishery Closures) Direction 2024.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences 30 April 2024.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 41A(2) of the Act.

4  Definitions

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

(a)     Australian Fishing Zone;

(b)     Fishing.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery has the same meaning as in the Western Tuna and Billfish Management Plan 2005.

Western Skipjack Fishery has the same meaning as in the Fisheries Management Regulations 2019.

5  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

6  To Whom this instrument applies

 (1) This instrument applies to a person who is permitted to engage in in fishing (however described) in the following fisheries:

(a)  Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery; and