Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 1 2024

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

Dated:        18 October 2024

Wez Norris

Chief Executive Officer

1  Name

  This instrument is the Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Seasonal Closures) Amendment Direction No. 1 2024.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

(3) Fishing is not to be engaged in the fishery defined in Schedule 1 during the period commencing at 2200 hours UTC on 30 October 2024 and ending at 2200 hours UTC on 30 November 2024.

2 Subsection 11(4)

Omit the subsection, substitute:

(4) Fishing is not to be engaged in the fishery defined in Schedule 2 during the period commencing at 2200 hours UTC on 30 October 2024 and ending at 2200 hours UTC on 30 November 2024.