Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000

Subregulation 12.56(2)

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

NORTH NETWORK OF MARINE PARKS – 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 Oceanic Shoals, Gulf of Carpentaria and West Cape York Marine Parks that are assigned to IUCN category II (national park), being the areas shown in marine park maps in Schedule 2 and described in Schedule 4 to the North Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018, as specified in the Schedule hereto, is an area of water where use of the following class of vessels:

vessels that are being used in connection with recreational fishing with fishing equipment not stowed and secured,

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.

Dated this 27 th day of June 2018

SIGNED

Jason Mundy

SCHEDULE

NORTH NETWORK OF MARINE PARKS– PARK ZONES ASSIGNED TO IUCN CATEGORY II (NATIONAL PARK)

List of relevant zone and clause numbers in Schedule 4 of the North Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018:

Marine Park	Zone Number/s	Clause describing the area boundary
Oceanic Shoals Marine Park	1	2.3
Gulf of Carpentaria Marine Park	1	7.3
West Cape York Marine Park	1, 4	8.3, 8.6