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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

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Torres Strait Fisheries Tropical Rock Lobster (Total Allowable Catch) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2023.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.

3  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.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

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).