Torres Strait Fisheries Tropical Rock Lobster (Total Allowable Catch) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2023
I, Murray Watt, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, make the following Determination.
Dated 3 April 2023
Senator the Hon. Murray Watt
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
This instrument is the Torres Strait Fisheries Tropical Rock Lobster (Total Allowable Catch) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2023.
This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.
This instrument is made pursuant to sections 13 and 14 of the Torres Strait Fisheries (Quotas for Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar)) Management Plan 2018.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Torres Strait Fisheries Tropical Rock Lobster (Total Allowable Catch) Determination 2022
1 Section 4
Repeal the section, substitute:
4 Authority
This instrument is made pursuant to sections 13 and 14 of the Torres Strait Fisheries (Quotas for Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar)) Management Plan 2018 (Management Plan).
2 Section 6
Repeal the section, substitute:
6 Determination of total allowable catch
(1) For the purposes of subsection 13(1) of the Management Plan, the total allowable catch of tropical rock lobster in the TRL fishery for the fishing season commencing on 1 December 2022 is 200,000 kilograms (unprocessed weight).
(2) For the purposes of subsection 14(1) of the Management Plan, the total allowable catch as determined in subsection (1) is increased from 200,000 kilograms (unprocessed weight) to 351,675 kilograms (unprocessed weight).