Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery (Total Allowable Catch) Determination 2025

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority makes the following determination.

Dated 12 November 2025

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Cessation

6  Total Allowable Catch

1  Name

  This instrument is the Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery (Total Allowable Catch) Determination 2025.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 15 April 2026.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made pursuant to paragraph 17(6)(aa) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and under section 11 of the Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery Management Plan 2006 (the Plan).

4  Definitions

A term used in this instrument that is defined for the purposes of the Plan has the same meaning in this instrument as it has in the Plan.

Note:      Terms defined in the Fisheries Management Act 1991 have the same meanings in this instrument.

5  Cessation

  This instrument ceases on 14 April 2028.

6  Total Allowable Catch

1.     The total allowable catch for target species and the limits to the amounts that may be taken of other species for the 2026-27 fishing year commencing 15 April 2026 and ending 14 April 2027, and for the fishing year 2027-28, commencing on 15 April 2027 and ending on 14 April 2028 are:

1.     404 tonnes for each fishing year for Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides); and
    
2.     50 tonnes for each fishing year for each of the other species in the Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery.