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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000

 

Subregulation 12.56(2)

DETERMINATION PROHIBITING USE OF RECREATIONAL VESSELS WITH FISHING EQUIPMENT NOT STOWED AND SECURED

CORAL SEA MARINE PARK – ZONES ASSIGNED TO IUCN CATEGORY II (NATIONAL PARK)

I, JASON MUNDY, Acting Director of National Parks, under subregulation 12.56(2) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000, HEREBY DETERMINE that each of the zones within Coral Sea Marine Park that are assigned to IUCN category II (national park), being the areas shown in maps in Schedule 2 and described in Schedule 4 to the Coral Sea Marine Park Management Plan 2018, as specified in the Schedule hereto, is an area of water where use of the following class of vessels:

is prohibited at all times.

In this determination:

recreational fishing means fishing other than commercial fishing;

fishing equipment means equipment designed to be used to attract or take fish or other aquatic animals;

stowed and secured means fishing equipment is not in contact with the water, is onboard the vessel and all fishing lines are unrigged; and

unrigged fishing line means all tackle (including hooks and lures) has been removed from the line.

AND HEREBY REVOKE the determination made on 14 December 2013 prohibiting the use of recreational vessels with fishing gear in use in part of Coral Sea Marine Park notified in the Gazette (C2013G01934) and published on 19 December 2013.

Dated this 27 th day of June 2018

SIGNED

Jason Mundy

SCHEDULE

CORAL SEA MARINE PARK — ZONES ASSIGNED TO IUCN CATEGORY II (NATIONAL PARK)

List of relevant zone and clause numbers in Schedule 4 to the Coral Sea Marine Park Management Plan 2018:

Marine Park

Zone Number

Clause describing the area boundary

Coral Sea Marine Park

2

1.4

 

3

1.5

 

5

1.7

 

11

1.13

 

12

1.14

 

13

1.15

 

14

1.16

 

16

1.18

 

19

1.21

 

25

1.27

 

27

1.29