authorised mooring means a mooring that is authorised by the Marine and Safety Authority established under the Marine and Safety Authority Act 1997 ;
Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery means the fishery in Commonwealth waters managed by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority as defined under the Offshore Constitutional Settlement entered into between the Commonwealth and the States;
Bass Strait scallop fisher means a person holding a Commonwealth authority to take scallops from Commonwealth waters;
Bass Strait scallop trip means a fishing trip that a Bass Strait scallop fisher takes to the Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery in accordance with the requirements of the fisher’s Commonwealth authority;
closed area –
(a) for the commercial scallop fishery, means an area of State waters that is closed to the commercial scallop fishery under rule 19(2) ; and
(b) for the non-commercial scallop fishery, means an area of State waters –
(i) determined by the Minister to be closed to the non-commercial scallop fishery under rule 12(1) ; or
(ii) that is closed to the non-commercial scallop fishery under rule 13(1) ;
closed season –
(a) for the commercial scallop fishery, means the period determined to be the closed season by the Minister under rule 18 ; and
(b) for the non-commercial scallop fishery, means the period specified in or such other period determined to be the closed season by the Minister under ;
commercial scallop fishery means the part of the scallop fishery comprising the taking or possession of scallops for commercial purposes;
Commonwealth authority means a licence, permit, right or other authority relating to a specific fishery granted under the Commonwealth Act;
deactivate, in relation to a fishing licence, means to make the licence subject to a condition that prohibits the use of the licence –
(a) for a period specified in the condition; or
(b) from a date and time specified in the condition;
D'Entrecasteaux Channel means the area of State waters bounded –
(a) in the north by an imaginary straight line from Dennes Point on Bruny Island to Piersons Point on the western shore of the River Derwent; and
(b) in the south by an imaginary straight line from Scott Point (at the entrance of Port Esperance) to the northernmost point of Partridge Island, and by the line of longitude 147o 05.90' East between the southernmost point of Partridge Island and Labillardiere Peninsula on Bruny Island;
land means to bring scallops ashore or in contact with a pier, jetty or other artificial extension of land;
licence quota unit balance, for a fishing licence (scallop) for a quota period, means the portion of the total weight of scallop quota units specified in the licence that remains to be caught in the quota period;
(a) for the commercial scallop fishery, means the period determined to be the open season by the Minister under rule 18 ; and
(b) for the non-commercial scallop fishery, means the period specified in rule 11(1) or such other period determined as being the open season by the Minister under rule 11(2) ;
processing premises means a place, vessel or vehicle for which a fish processing licence is in force;
relevant fishing certificate, in relation to a fishing licence, means the fishing certificate maintained by the Secretary under section 63 of the Act in respect of that fishing licence;
reporting service means an approved service under rule 44 ;
research quota unit means an entitlement to take scallops in accordance with rule 24 ;
scallop means fish of the species –
(a) Equichlamys bifrons (commonly known as queen scallop); or
(b) Pecten fumatus (commonly known as commercial scallop); or
(c) Mimachlamys asperrima (commonly known as doughboy scallop);
scallop quota unit means a unit that is an entitlement to take one 10 366th of the total allowable catch for the commercial scallop fishery;
scallop quota unit balance means the sum of the licence quota unit balance and the portion of the total weight of research quota units specified in a fishing licence that remains to be caught in the quota period;
scallop sales receipt means a receipt relating to the sale of scallops that is part of the records required to be kept under the Act;
scallop spat – see clause 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 4 ;
scallop survey means a scallop survey, the conduct of which is in accordance with –
(a) a determination of the Minister under rule 27 ; or
whole scallop means a scallop that has not been removed from its shell.
(2) In these rules, unless the contrary intention appears –
(a) a reference to a licensee's scallop quota units is taken not to include the licensee's research quota units; and
(b) a reference to a licensee's licence quota unit balance is taken not to include the amount, if any, of scallops that the licensee may take under a research quota unit.