Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01095:schedule:39:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01095
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 39 (pt 1/6)
Character Range: 4546–7663

Schedule 39—Flinders Research Zone Closure
Schedule 40 Gabo Trawl Closure
Schedule 41 Conran Trawl Closure
Schedule 42 Flounder/Kingfisher Trawl Closure
Schedule 43 Babel Island Trawl Closure
Schedule 44 South East Tasman Trawl Closure
Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history

1 Name

 This instrument is the Fisheries Management (Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery and Small Pelagic Fishery Closures) Direction 2021.

3 Authority

 This Direction is made under subsection 41A(2) of the Act.

4 Definitions

              Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the interpretation section of the Act, including the following:
                (a) AFZ;
                (b) boat;
                (c) coastal waters;
                (d) fishery;
                (e) fishing;
                (f) fishing concession;
                (g) holder;
                (h) statutory fishing right (SFR);
                (i) take.

             Terms used in this Direction that are defined for the purposes of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Management Plan 2003 or the Small Pelagic Fishery Management Plan 2009 have the same meanings in this Direction as they have in the Plans.

        In this instrument:

        Act means the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

        Adjacent Area Boundary means the offshore State and Northern Territory boundaries established under Schedule 8 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

        Automatic baiting equipment means any mechanical operation that automatically positions bait on the hooks without the need for each hook/snood to be individually clipped onto the mainline directly by hand during the setting of the gear.

        Hydraulic hand reel droplining means a method of individual droplines which stay attached to the boat, with a maximum soak time of 90 minutes and no more than 25 hooks per individual line.

        All geographic coordinates contained within the schedules attached to this document are in terms of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94).

        Unless otherwise stated, the lines between coordinates are geodesics.

5 To whom this applies

        (1) This Direction applies to the holder of a fishing concession (or a person acting on behalf of that holder) in:

        (a) The Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery;

        (b) The Small Pelagic Fishery.

6 Direction not to engage in fishing

        (a) Fishing is not to be engaged in using gillnet methods in the area described in Schedule 1.

        (b) Fishing is not to be engaged in using demersal otter trawl methods in the area described in Schedule 2.

        (c) Fishing is not to be engaged in the area described in Schedule 3.

        (d) Fishing is not to be engaged in using trawl methods in the area described in Schedule 4.

        (e) Fishing is not to be engaged in using gillnet methods in the area described in Schedule 5.

        (f) Fishing is not to be engaged in the