Torres Strait Fisheries (Quotas for Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar)) (Total Allowable Catch) Amendment Determination 2024

I, Murray Watt, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, make the following Determination.

Dated 7 March 2024   

Senator the Hon. Murray Watt

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1  Name

  This instrument is the Torres Strait Fisheries (Quotas for Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar)) (Total Allowable Catch) Amendment Determination 2024.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Torres Strait Fisheries (Quotas for Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar)) (Total Allowable Catch) Determination 2023

1 Section 6

Add the subsection after subsection 6(1):

“(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 357,750 kilograms (unprocessed weight).”