I, Joanne Lesley Palmer MLC, Minister for Primary Industries and Water administering the
Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 (the Act) pursuant to the powers under section 94 of the Act, for the quota period from 1 March 2023 to 29 February 2024 (inclusive), hereby determine that:
(a) The Total Allowable Catch for the commercial banded morwong fishery be set at 35,760 kilograms;
(b) The part of the commercial banded morwong fishery from which the total allowable catch is to be taken is the “TAC area" as defined in the Fisheries (Scalefish) Rules 2015; and,
(c) The total allowable catch equates to 30 kilograms per quota unit.
Words and expressions used in this notice have the same meaning as they have in the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 and the Fisheries (Scalefish) Rules 2015.Dated this 12th day of January 2023Joanne Lesley Palmer MLCMINISTER FOR PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND WATERFURTHER INFORMATIONThis notice sets the total allowable catch for the 2023/24 fishing year for the commercial Banded Morwong Fishery for the species Cheilodactylus spectabilis in the TAC Area on the east coast of Tasmania. For further information contact the Wild Fisheries Management Branch of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania on 1300 135 513.