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INSTRUMENT REGULATING FISHING

Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984
Section 16
Torres Strait Prawn Fishery

TORRES STRAIT FISHERIES MANAGEMENT INSTRUMENT NO. 17

The PROTECTED ZONE JOINT AUTHORITY exercising jurisdiction under Commonwealth law over commercial fishing in the Protected Zone pursuant to the arrangement between the Commonwealth and the State of Queensland published on 19th March 1999 in the Commonwealth Gazette No. S125 and acting in accordance with the powers conferred on the Authority by paragraph 35(1)(a) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, under section 16 of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, makes the following Instrument.

Dated:        31st March    2017

Senator the Hon. Anne Ruston
Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources
Chair of the Torres Strait Protected Zone Joint Authority

Citation
  1. This Instrument may be cited as the Torres Strait Fisheries Management Instrument No. 17.

Commencement
  2. This Instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

Cessation
  3. This Instrument is repealed on 31 December 2026 unless earlier revoked.

This notice to apply with other notices
  4. This Notice applies in conjunction with any other Notice in force in the area of the Torres Strait Prawn Fishery.

Interpretation
  5.1  In this Instrument, unless the contrary intention appears "the Act" means the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, and:
  5.2 Terms used but not defined in this Instrument have the same meaning as in the Act and the Torres Strait Fisheries Regulations 1985; and
  5.3 "prawns" means fish of the family Penaeidae.

Prohibitions
  6.1 Pursuant to paragraph 16(1)(a) of the Act,. the use or possession of otter trawl
  equipment in the area of the Torres Strait Prawn Fishery is prohibited if:

     d) where only one net is used or in possession on board a boat or attached to a boat, the length of the net is longer than 88 metres; or

      e)     where more than one net, including a try-net, is rigged for fishing, the total combined length of the nets is longer than 88 metres; and
      f)       where more than one net is rigged for fishing, and a try-net is in possession
      on board the boat but not rigged for fishing, the total combined length of the nets rigged for fishing and the largest try-net in possession on board the boat
      is longer than 88 metres; and

      g)     where a try net is rigged for fishing, in possession on board a boat, or is attached to a boat, the try net is of a length is longer than 10 metres; and

      h)     where other nets, excluding try-nets, are in possession on board a boat and
      are not rigged for fishing, the nets are of