Determination of commercial fishing practices North-west Network of Marine Parks (Cth)

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000 Sub-regulation 12.34(3) DETERMINATION OF COMMERCIAL FISHING PRACTICES NORTH-WEST NETWORK OF MARINE PARKS

I, JASON MUNDY, Acting Director of National Parks, under sub-regulation 12.34(3) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000 HEREBY DETERMINE that for each of the Marine Parks in the Network, being the marine parks listed in Schedule 1 hereto, the following practices in commercial fishing are to be followed: 1. vessels (other than vessels engaged in cage towing) transiting a Marine Park, or zone within a Marine Park, that is assigned to IUCN category II (national park), as described in Schedule 2 hereto, must travel at a speed greater than 5 knots; and

2. fish may only be processed or transhipped in zones in which use of a gear type or fishing method for the taking of that fish is authorised by the North-west Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018 or the Class Approval issued by the Director of National Parks for commercial fishing in the Network; and

3. vessels transiting or stopping and anchoring in zones in which fishing, or use of fishing gear on board the vessel, is not authorised by the North-west Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018 or the Class Approval issued by the Director of National Parks for commercial fishing in the Network, must have the fishing gear stowed and secured at all times.

Note: Paragraphs (b) and (c) do not apply to commercial fishing practices conducted in accordance with an authorisation issued by the Director of National Parks.

In this determination:

stowed and secured means all fishing apparatus, including nets and lines, are rendered inoperative, including that the apparatus is inboard the vessel, and otherwise completely out of the water; and