4Definitions

4 Definitions

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

(a) AFZ;

(b) boat;

(c) coastal waters;

(d) fishery;

(e) fishing;

(f) fishing concession;

(g) holder;

(h) statutory fishing right (SFR);

(i) take.

Terms used in this Direction that are defined for the purposes of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan 2003 or the Small Pelagic Fishery Management Plan 2009 have the same meanings in this Direction as they have in the Plans.

In this instrument:

Act means the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Adjacent Area Boundary means the offshore State and Northern Territory boundaries established under Schedule 8 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

Automatic baiting equipment means any mechanical operation that automatically positions bait on the hooks without the need for each hook/snood to be individually clipped onto the mainline directly by hand during the setting of the gear.

Daylight hours means the hours of light between the times of nautical dawn and nautical dusk.

Hydraulic hand reel droplining means a method of individual droplines which stay attached to the boat, with a maximum soak time of 90 minutes and no more than 25 hooks per individual line.

Modified droplining means a method of individual droplines which ensure that no hooks are set within 5 metres of the sea floor during daylight hours.

All geographic coordinates contained within the schedules attached to this document are in terms of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94).

Unless otherwise stated, the lines between coordinates are geodesics.