Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 1 2023

I, Mira Bacelj, Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, make the following direction. 

Dated: 26 July 2023

Mira Bacelj

Acting Chief Executive Officer

1  Name

  This instrument is the Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 1 2023.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Subsection 11(3)

Omit the subsection, substitute:

Insert:

(3) Fishing is not to be engaged in the fishery defined in Schedule 1 during the period commencing at 2200 hours UTC on 9 November 2023 and ending at 2200 hours UTC on 30 November 2023.

2 Subsection 11(4)

Insert:

(4) Fishing is not to be engaged in the fishery defined in Schedule 2 during the period commencing at 2230 hours UTC on 9 November 2023 and ending at 2230 hours UTC on 30 November 2023.