Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 2 2021

 I, Wez Norris, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, make the following direction. 

Dated: 11 November 2021

Wez Norris

Chief Executive Officer

1  Name

  This instrument is the Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 2 2021.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 19 November 2021.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 41A(3) 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendment

Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Direction 2021

1  Section 11

Insert:

11(3) Fishing is not to be engaged in in the fishery during the period commencing at 2230 hours UTC on 20 November 2021 and ending at 2200 hours UTC on 30 November 2021