Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Permanent Closures) Direction 2021 (Cth)

Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Permanent Closures) Direction 2021

I, Wez Norris, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, as delegate under delegation No. 2 of 2016 made on 14th November 2016 from the Commission, make the following direction.

Dated 15 March 2021

Wez Norris Chief Executive Officer Australian Fisheries Management Authority

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Schedules 6 To whom this applies 7 Prohibition on fishing 8 Exemption to the prohibition in Section 7 Schedule 1 – Closure areas Part 1 - Caledon Bay area Part 2 - Port Langdon area Part 3 - North West Bay area Part 4 - Bartalumba Bay area Part 5 - Alyangula area Part 6 - Dalumba Bay area Part 7 - Cape Shield to West Island Part 8 - Sir Edward Pellew Group Part 9 - Darwin to Point Blaze Part 10 - Port Essington area Part 11 - Mornington Island area Part 11A – Mornington Island Benthic Survey Sites Part 12 - Arnhem Bay area Schedule 2 – Repeals Northern Prawn Fishery (Closures) Direction No. 169

1 Name This instrument is the Fisheries Management (Northern Prawn Fishery Permanent Closures) Direction 2021.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument This instrument commences on the 14th day after it is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.