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Fisheries Management (E-monitoring Small Pelagic Fishery) Direction 2021

I, WEZ NORRIS, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, as delegate under Delegation No. 2 of 2016 made on 14 November 2016 from the AFMA Commission, make the following Direction pursuant to s40A(1) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Dated   16 April 2021

Wez Norris
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Fisheries Management Authority

Contents
1. Name
2. Commencement
3. Authority
4. Definitions
5. Requirement to install and operate an e-monitoring system
6. Requirement to monitor function of an e-monitoring system, arrange repair and provide e-monitoring data
7. Requirement to provide certain information to AFMA
Schedule 1—Repeals
Fisheries Management (E-monitoring Small Pelagic Fishery) Direction 2020

   1. Name
  This instrument is the Fisheries Management (E-monitoring Small Pelagic Fishery) Direction 2021.

2.      Commencement
 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1                          Column 2                                  Column 3
Provisions                        Commencement                              Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument  This Instrument commences on 1 May 2021.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3.      Authority
  This instrument is made under s40A(1) of the Act.

4.      Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 4 of the Act, and section 3 of the Small Pelagic Fishery Management Plan 2009 including the following:
               (a)      boat;
               (b)     e-monitoring;
               (c)      fishing concession;
               (d)     holder;
               (e)      fish.
  In this instrument:
Act means the Fisheries Management Act 1991.
Contractor means the party contracted as AFMA's agents to provide e-monitoring systems and associated services.
Data drive means a component of an e-monitoring system that can store e-monitoring data and can be removed by the operator of the e-monitoring system but does not include removable Random Access Memory.
       E-monitoring system means e-monitoring equipment and peripheral equipment approved by AFMA, that can:
           a)      record, store and transmit details of a boat's position and activity; and
           b)      record, store and transmit details of the e-monitoring system's status; and
           c)      record (including visually) and store all fishing events.
Fishing event means the setting of a net, hauling of a net, pumping of catch and handling of bycatch.

5.      Requirement to install and operate an e-monitoring system
       (1)    A concession holder