Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01098:body:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01098
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 2946–6164

Carpentaria - West

        Schedule 11 – Sweers Island - Mornington Island

        Schedule 12 – Mid-season Closure

        Schedule 13 – Mid-season Closure
              Part 1
              Part 2

        Schedule 14 – Tarrant Point - Mornington Island - Bynoe River

        Schedule 15 – Weipa

        Schedule 16 – Sir Edward Pellew Group

        Schedule 17 – North East Vanderlin Island 83 Patch

        Schedule 18 – Cambridge Gulf

        Schedule 19 – Goulburn Islands

        Schedule 20 – Gulf of Carpentaria

        Schedule 21 – Gear trial areas
              Part A - Karumba southern gear trial area
              Part B - Karumba northern gear trial area
              Part C - Darwin gear trial area
              Part D - West of Cape York gear trial area
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 (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Direction 2021.

       3  Authority

         This instrument is made under section 41A of the Act.

       4  Definitions

            Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the definitions section of the Act, including the following:
               (a) boat
               (b) fish
               (c) fishery
               (d) fishing
               (e) fishing concession
               (f) holder
               (g) statutory fishing right.

            A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the interpretation section of the Northern Prawn Fishery Management Plan 1995, including the following:
               (a) acting for
               (b) Northern Prawn Fishery
               (c) Northern Prawn Fishery area.

         In this instrument:

       Act means the Fisheries Management Act 1991;

       boat means a boat that is nominated on statutory fishing rights for the Northern Prawn Fishery, and includes carrier boats and fishing boats;

       gear trial means a test, or a series of short tests, of equipment on or towed by a boat and carried out under the following conditions:

              (a)   the test is conducted in such a way as to avoid the capture of fish, primarily by keeping the cod end of nets fully open at all times; and

              (b)   fish that are captured in the equipment during the test are returned to the sea as soon as practicable after it becomes apparent that the fish have been captured.

       equipment means equipment for fishing;

       UTC means Coordinated Universal Time, the time scale based on the second (SI), maintained by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. For the purposes of this Direction UTC is equivalent to mean solar time at the prime meridian (0 degrees longitude), formerly expressed in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

       The origin of geographical coordinates used in this Direction is the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84).

       5  Schedules

       Schedules 1 to 21 to this instrument have effect according to their terms.

       6  To whom this applies

       This Direction applies to a holder of a fishing concession in the