This instrument is the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (Total Allowable Catch for Quota Species) Determination 2024.

This instrument commences on the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3 Cessation

This instrument ceases on 1 May 2025.

4 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 11(1) of the Management Plan for the purpose of paragraph 17(6)(aa) of the Act.

5 Definitions

(1) In this instrument:

Act means the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Management Plan means the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan 2003.

(2) Any term used in this instrument that is defined for the purposes of the Management Plan has the same meaning in this instrument as it has in the Management Plan.

Note: Terms defined in the Act have the same meanings in this Instrument.

6 Determination of total allowable catch – whole fishery

(1) This section applies to the 2024-25 fishing year commencing on 1 May 2024 and ending on 30 April 2025.

(2) For a species of fish specified in an item in column 1 of the table, the total allowable catch, in tonnes, for that species is determined in column 2 on the basis of the preparation of the fish in accordance with column 3.

Item	Column 1 Species of fish	Column 2 Total allowable catch	Column 3 Preparation
1	Alfonsino	1 017 tonnes	Whole weight
2	Bight redfish	959 tonnes	Whole weight
3	Blue eye trevalla	263 tonnes	Whole weight
4	Blue grenadier	17 084 tonnes	Whole weight
5	Blue warehou	30 tonnes	Whole weight
6	Deepwater flathead	940 tonnes	Whole weight
7	Elephant fish	114 tonnes	Trunked, belly flaps removed
8	Flathead	2 333 tonnes	Whole weight
9	Gummy shark	1 558 tonnes	Trunked weight
10	Jackass morwong	50 tonnes	Whole weight
11	John dory	60 tonnes	Whole weight
12	Mirror dory	182 tonnes	Whole weight
13	Ocean perch	318 tonnes	Whole weight
14	Oreo, basket	137 tonnes	Whole weight
15	Pink ling	1 533 tonnes	Whole weight
16	Redfish	30 tonnes	Whole weight
17	Ribaldo	393 tonnes	Whole weight
18	Royal red prawn	628 tonnes	Whole weight
19	Saw shark	525 tonnes	Trunked weight
20	School shark	197 tonnes	Trunked weight
21	School whiting	914 tonnes	Whole weight
22	Silver trevally	25 tonnes	Whole weight
23	Silver warehou	350 tonnes	Whole weight

7 Determination of total allowable catch – parts of the area of the fishery

(1) This section applies to the 2024-25 fishing year commencing on 1 May 2024 and ending on 30 April 2025.

(2) For a species of fish specified in an item in column 1 of the table in the zone, or zones, of the fishery in column 2, the total allowable catch, in tonnes, for that species in that part, or parts, of the area of the fishery is determined in column 3 on the basis of the preparation of the fish in accordance with column 4.

Item	Column 1 Species of fish	Column 2 Part of the area of the fishery	Column 3 Total allowable catch	Column 4 Preparation
1	Deepwater shark, basket	Gemfish and deepwater shark eastern zone	24 tonnes	Trunked weight
2	Deepwater shark, basket	Gemfish and deepwater shark western zone	327 tonnes	Trunked weight
3	Gemfish	Gemfish and deepwater shark eastern zone	100 tonnes	Whole weight
4	Gemfish	Gemfish and deepwater shark western zone	180 tonnes	Whole weight
5	Orange roughy	Both the GAB Albany zone and GAB Esperance zone	50 tonnes	Whole weight
6	Orange roughy	Cascade Plateau zone	397 tonnes	Whole weight
7	Orange roughy	Orange roughy eastern zone	879 tonnes	Whole weight
8	Orange roughy	Orange roughy southern zone	98 tonnes	Whole weight
9	Orange roughy	Orange roughy western zone	60 tonnes	Whole weight
10	Smooth oreo dory	Cascade Plateau zone	150 tonnes	Whole weight
11	Smooth oreo dory	Other than Cascade Plateau zone	90 tonnes	Whole weight