4Definitions

4 Definitions

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

(a) boat
(b) fish
(c) fishing
(d) holder
(e) master
(f) plan of management
(g) processing
(h) statutory fishing right
(i) take.

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the interpretation section of the Northern Prawn Fishery Management Plan 1995, including the following:

(a) acting for
(b) Northern Prawn Fishery
(c) Northern Prawn Fishery area.

In this instrument:

Act means the Fisheries Management Act 1991;

boat means a boat that is nominated on statutory fishing rights for the Northern Prawn Fishery;

bugs means fish of the species Thenus parindicus and Thenus australiensis;

carapace width means the width of the carapace when measured at its widest point;

egg-bearing female bugs includes bugs that have been scrubbed to remove any eggs and includes bugs that have had their eggs removed using chemicals;

equipment means equipment for fishing;

fishing means the commercial fishing activities that are referred to in section 14 of the Northern Prawn Fishery Management Plan 1995;

rock lobster means a whole lobster of the species Panulirus ornatus and/ or a lobster tail of that species;

scampi means fish of the families Aristeidae and Nephropidae;

trip means the period between departing port and the unloading of a catch, or part of a catch, to a mothership or port or any other point where catch is unloaded;

UTC means Coordinated Universal Time, the time scale based on the second (SI), maintained by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. For the purposes of this Direction UTC is equivalent to mean solar time at the prime meridian (0 degrees longitude), formerly expressed in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT);

W means the whole weight of fish in kilograms;

GG means the gilled and gutted weight of fish in kilograms;

F means the fish fillet weight in kilograms; and