Torres Strait Fisheries Management Notice No. 50 (25/03/1999) (Cth)

Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 Fisheries Management Notice No. 50

TORRES STRAIT CRAB FISHERY PROHIBITION ON TAKING CRAB (GEAR, SIZE, AREA AND BOAT LENGTH RESTRICTIONS)

i, MARK VAILE, Commonwealth Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Chairman of the Protected Zone Joint Authority, acting on behalf of the Authority in accordance with the powers conferred on the Authority by paragraph 35(1)(a) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, make the following Notice under section 16 of the Act.

Dated this 25th day of March 1999

[signed]

MARK VAILE

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Citation

1. This Notice may be cited as Torres Strait Fisheries Management Notice No. 50.

Commencement

2. This Notice commences on 1 April 1999.

this notice to apply with other notices

3. this Notice applies in conjunction with any other notice in force in the area of the crab fishery.

Interpretation

4. (a) In this Notice, unless the contrary intention appears:

"crab apparatus" means a crab pot, a dilly or inverted dilly; and

"crab pot" means crab apparatus comprising a cage with a round opening in the top, or an elongated opening (parallel to the base) in the side, for trapping crabs; and

"crabs" means fish of the infraorders Anomura and Brachyura other than spanner crabs (Ranina ranina); and

"dilly" means fishing apparatus comprising a frame and a net that hangs below the frame's horizontal plane when the apparatus is in use; and

"inverted dilly" means fishing apparatus comprising a frame and a net with a float attached so the net is above the frame's horizontal plane when the apparatus is in use, and includes fishing apparatus known as a suicide dilly or witch's hat; and

"the Act" means the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984; and

(b) terms used but not defined in this Notice have the same meaning as in the Act and the Torres Strait Fisheries Regulations.