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FISHERIES REGULATIONS 1992
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allocation, in relation to a Pearl Oyster Fishery licensee, means
the number of pearl oyster fishing units allocated to him or her
under regulation 122E for a licensing year.
Committee means the Northern Territory Pearl Industry Advisory
Committee established under section 24 of the Act.
half pearl means the concretion formed on the inner surface of
either valve of a pearl oyster as a result of a person adhering an
object permanently to that surface.
holding area means a site at which, under a Pearl Oyster Culture
Industry licence, pearl oysters taken from the wild or produced in a
hatchery are held for seeding and related operations.
licensing year means a calendar year.
mother-of-pearl means the smooth, shining, iridescent substance
forming the inner layers of the shell of a pearl oyster.
pearl includes a whole, half, baroque, seedless or blister pearl from
a pearl oyster, whether the pearl is natural or cultured.
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pearl culture unit means a pearl oyster fishing unit or a pearl
oyster hatchery unit.
pearl farm lease means a lease granted to a licensee under
section 55 of the Act for the purposes of a Pearl Oyster Culture
industry licence.
pearl oyster means an oyster of the genus Pinctada and includes:
(a) a part of a pearl oyster; and
(b) pearl oyster spat.
Pearl Oyster Culture Industry means the managed fishery
relating to:
(a) the holding, culturing and sale of production from wildstock or
hatchery produced pearl oysters; and
(b) activities associated with the activities specified in
paragraph (a);
declared by notice in Gazette No. G28 of 17 July 1991 at page 2.
Pearl Oyster Culture Industry Management Plan means the
fishery management plan in force in respect of the Pearl Oyster
Culture Industry.
pearl oyster dump site means a site where pearl oysters taken
from the wild are placed and held before movement to a holding
area or a pearl farm lease, but does not include an area of land
held under a pearl farm lease.
pearl oyster fishing unit has the meaning it has in
regulation 122D(2).
pearl oyster hatchery unit has the meaning it has in the Pearl
Oyster Culture Industry Management Plan.
take includes sever, remove, damage, destroy or otherwise
displace a pearl oyster from the wild but does not include the taking
of a pearl oyster from a pearl oyster dump site, holding area or an
area of land held under a pearl farm lease.
total allowable catch has the meaning it has in regulation 122C(1).
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