1Torres Strait Fisheries (Trochus) Management Instrument 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Torres Strait Fisheries (Trochus) Management Instrument 2025

The Protected Zone Joint Authority make the following instrument.

Dated 19 December 2025  

 

The Hon Julie Collins MP, Commonwealth Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

The Hon Anthony (Tony) Perrett MP, Queensland Minister for Primary Industries

Mr George Nona, Chairperson, Torres Strait Regional Authority

For and on behalf of the Protected Zone Joint Authority

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

6  Prohibition on taking, processing or carrying trochus

7  Prohibition on the use of certain methods and equipment

8  Prohibition on taking, processing or carrying of trochus of a certain size

Schedule 1—Repeals

Torres Strait Fisheries Management Instrument No. 13

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Torres Strait Fisheries (Trochus) Management Instrument 2025.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 16(1) and section 35(1)(a) of the Act.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 3 of the Act, including the following:

1.      fish
2.      traditional inhabitant
3.      traditional fishing.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984.

hookah gear means equipment to enable a person to breathe underwater where the air is supplied from either an air compressor or one or more air cylinders above the surface of the water, and includes equipment which may be described as surface supplied breathing equipment or surface supplied breathing apparatus.

PZJA Arrangement means the document titled “Arrangement between the Commonwealth and the State of Queensland under section 31 of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984” dated 17 March 1999 and published on the Federal Register of Legislation, as that document exists at the commencement of this instrument.