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Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Amendment (Recreational Fishing) Plan 2020

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority makes the following plan.

Dated 23 September 2020

Wez Norris
Chief Executive Officer
for the Commissioners of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority

Accepted 13 October 2020

Jonathon Duniam

Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Plan 1995

1  Name

  This instrument is the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Amendment (Recreational Fishing) Plan 2020.

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

The day after this instrument is registered.

20 October 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 20 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Plan 1995

1  Subclause 3.2

Omit all the words after “AFZ”.

2  Clause 6A

Omit “20%”, substitute “30%”.

3  Subclause 15.7 (note 5)

Omit all the words after “the particulars”, substitute “required by subsection 45(1) of the Act”.

4  Subclause 17.2

After “does not exceed”, insert “95 per cent of”.

5  Subclause 17.5

Repeal the subclause.

6  Subclause 17.6

Omit “to be an amount that does not exceed the national catch allocation determined for the previous season”.

7  After subclause 17.6

Insert:

 17.6A An allocation determined for a season under subclause 17.4 or 17.6 must not exceed:

 (a) if the allocation is for the season commencing on 1 December 2020—95 per cent of Australia’s national catch allocation determined by AFMA for the previous season; or

 (b) in any other case—Australia’s national catch allocation determined by AFMA for the previous season.

8  Subclause 17.7

After “does not exceed” (wherever occurring), insert “95 per cent of”.

9  Paragraph 24.11(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (a) the Fisheries Management Regulations 2019; and

10  Paragraph 25.5(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (a) the Fisheries Management Regulations 2019; and

11  Paragraph 26.4(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (a) the Fisheries Management Regulations 2019; and