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Directions/Other as made
Direction No. SSJFDIR 1 Bycatch Limits.
Administered by: Agriculture and Water Resources
Registered 10 Nov 2005
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR28-Nov-2005
Tabled Senate28-Nov-2005
Date of repeal 01 Apr 2016
Repealed by Sunsetting

 

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991

SOUTHERN SQUID JIG FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLAN 2005

 

DIRECTION No. SSJFDIR 1

BYCATCH LIMITS

 

The AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY determines this Direction under section 17(5A) and 17(5B) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and section 18(1) of the Southern Squid Jig Fishery Management Plan 2005.

 

Dated 26 October 2005

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                       PETER WITHERIDGE

Common seal of the
Australian Fisheries
Management Authority

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Citation

1.       This Direction may be cited as Direction No. SSJFDIR 1.

Commencement and period of application

2.       This Direction commences on registration and ceases once revoked.

Interpretation

3.       A term used in this Direction by way or priority, or if there is any inconsistency:

(a)          takes the meaning given to it in the Southern Squid Jig Fishery Management Plan 2005; and then

(b)          if no meaning is given to the word in the Southern Squid Jig Fishery Management Plan 2005, takes the meaning given to that word under the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Prohibition on bycatch

4.      This Direction prohibits the fishing for or taking of fish of the species named in parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Schedule.

Exemptions to the prohibition on taking fish in clause 4

5.      The prohibition in clause 4 does not apply, if in any one fishing trip:

(a)    the total combined weight of fish taken and carried is less than 100 kilograms, and

(b)   does not include any fish of the species described in parts 2 and 3 of the Schedule.


SCHEDULE

Part 1

Fish species of the Superclass Pisces

 

Part 2

Common name

Scientific Name

Blue Eye Trevalla

Hyperoglyphe antarctica

Pink Ling

Genypterus blacodes

Blue Warehou

Seriolella brama

Gemfish

Rexea solandri

 

Part 3

Common name

Family Name

Tuna

Scombridae – except fish of the genera Scomberomorus, Scomber, Acanthocybium, Rastrelliger and Grammatorcynus

marlins

Istiophoridae

billfish

Xiphiidae