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The Queensland Government is responsible fo", "Not available" ], "watch_terms": [ "Not available" ], "avoid_claiming_without_evidence": [] }, "review_note": "" }, "strategy_brief_md": "# Western Australian Fisheries Joint Authority — Strategy Brief\n\n**Reporting period**: 2021-22\n**Corporate plan in force**: Not available\n**Annual Report**: [2021-22](http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/qfja_2021-22.pdf)\n\n## Our purpose / purposes\n\n> The QFJA is responsible for the management of certain fish species as prescribed under the Offshore Constitutional Settlement Agreement. The Queensland Government is responsible for managing a number of fisheries in the Gulf of Carpentaria that take these species. [CP p.5]\n\n## Government priorities for this department\n\n- Not available\n\n## Outcomes\n\n### Outcome 1: Sustainable fisheries\nThe QFJA manages fisheries to ensure they are sustainable and comply with relevant legislation and regulations. [CP p.4]\n\n**Key activities:**\n- Monitoring and enforcement of fishing regulations\n- Stock assessments and scientific research\n- Collaboration with stakeholders and other jurisdictions\n\n## Values and principles\n\n_Not explicitly stated_\n\n- Sustainability\n- Collaboration\n- Compliance\n\n## What they will measure themselves on this year (targets from Not available corporate plan)\n\n| Code | Measure | Target | Source |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Not available | Not available | Not available | |\n\n## How they performed last year (results from 2021-22 annual report)\n\n| Code | Measure | Result | Status | Source |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | |", "strategy_overview_evidence_md": null, "internal_strategy_evidence_md": "# Western Australian Fisheries Joint Authority - Strategy, Performance, and Operating Profile\n\n**Generated at**: 2026-05-09T22:11:02.090770+00:00\n**Entity ID**: B-002186\n**Entity type**: Inter-jurisdictional Body\n**Jurisdiction**: Commonwealth\n**Portfolio**: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry\n**Website**: http://www.afma.gov.au/fisheries/joint-authority-fisheries/\n\n> Draft generated from scraped source material. Treat this as an evidence pack for editorial review, not a final judgement.\n\n## Source Coverage\n\n| Source type | Count |\n|---|---:|\n| annual-reports | 5 |\n| other-pdfs | 2 |\n| pages | 41 |\n| strategies | 12 |\n\n## Executive Readout\n\n### Purpose\n\n- [Page 89]\n6 Data and Monitoring\n6.1 Introduction\nThe purpose of this section is to provide a review and plan for ongoing data\ncollection needed to support evidence based fishery management decisions in the\nEastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery (ETBF), in particular as relates to the management\nof commercial species (Section 3) and bycatch species (Section 4) and the pursuit of\nrelated and broader management objectives (Section 2.2).\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Policy/Guideline Purpose\nCommonwealth Primary objective is to minimise fishing-related impacts on\nFisheries Bycatch general bycatch species in a manner consistent with the\nPolicy and principles of ESD and with regard to the structure, productivity,\nGuidelines 2018 function and biological diversity of the ecosystem.\n(CFPB 2018)\nCommonwealth Requires the ecologically sustainable and profitable use of\nHarvest Strategy Australia’s Commonwealth commercial fisheries resources\nPolicy and (where ecological sustainability takes priority)—through the\nGuidelines 2018 implementation of harvest strategies for key commercial species.\n(HSP 2018) It specifies target (economic) reference points for key commercial\nspecies and limit (sustainability) reference points for key\ncommercial and byproduct species.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [pages 26,27,28,29]\nand medium term\n(compliance) outcomes associated with pursuing each objective are taken account of as\npart of staff and section workplans and performance reviews.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- ETBF objectives and performance measurement\nFor each of the above legislative objectives1, this ETBF FMS specifies fishery-specific\noperational objectives (consistent with those in the ETBF Fishery Management Plan\n2010), which align directly with a range of Commonwealth and internal AFMA fisheries\npolicies and guidelines, including in particular:\n• The Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy (2018) and Guidelines\n• The Commonwealth Fisheries Bycatch Policy (2018) and Guidelines\n• Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries (2007)\n• AFMA Ecological Risk Management Guide (2017)\nFor each operational objective, it is intended that the FMS list the indicators and\nperformance measures required to pursue and measure performance against its legislative\n1 With the exception of the cost recovery objective\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n\n### Role and Functions\n\n- Historical logbook designs in the ETBF\nSector Logbook Dates Other information\nSBT pole-boat TP01 Early 1960s For CSIRO research;\nand purse-seine\nTP01 Late 1960s – For CSIRO research; Added weather data and\n(b) 1969 average size of fish; Voluntary; Extensive data\ncollected\nTP02 1975 – 1976 For CSIRO research; In response to problems\n(a) in NSW and SA;\nTP02 1976 – 1978 Now the responsibility of DPI\n(b)\nSF03 1978 – 1981 Redesigned to facilitate coding for computer\nprocessing\nSBT pole-boat TP03 1981 – 1982 Experimental; Split pole and purse-seine;\nVoluntary\nTP05 1982 – Redesigned after comments from fishers;\nCompulsory; First logbook for WA waters\nTP06 1983 – Redesigned specifically for WA fishers\nTuna pole boat TPB01 1995 – 2000\nTPB02\nTPB03 1998 – 2015\nTPB03A 2015 – 2020 Current design (farm only)\nPurse seine and PS01 2002 – 2013\npole boat\nPS01A 2011 – 2020 Current design (farm only)\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 6]\nTable 1: Harvest Strategy Summary\nTier level Reference Reference point Information requirements to monitor Control rule\n(species point / function* reference point\nvary) trigger\npoint\nTier 1 B Limit Catch, CPUE, discards, age, length, relative B : At or above target, fish at F .\n Source: `strategies/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf)`\n- [Page 7]\nHarvest Strategy Framework\nTier level Reference Reference point Information requirements to monitor Control rule\n(species point / function* reference point\nvary) trigger\npoint\nTier 4 CPUE Limit Catch, effort, discards information from: CPUE : At or above target, fish at proxy for F .\n Source: `strategies/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf)`\n- Search & filter publications\nSearch and filter publications\nClose\nClear filters\nPublication type\nAll\nAnnual Operation Plans\nAnnual Reports\nCorporate Plans\nCost Recovery Implementation Statements\nFile Listing Reports\nHuman Resources Policies\nLegal Expenditure\nPortfolio Budget Statements\nReconciliation Action Plan\nReconciliation Plan\nRegulator Performance Framework\nRegulatory Change Plan\nStakeholder Surveys\nYear\nAll years\n2010\n2011\n2012\n2013\n2014\n2015\n2016\n2017\n2018\n2019\n2020\n2021\n2022\n2023\n2024\n2025\n2026\nClear filters\nClear search\nSort by:\nDate (Oldest)\nDate (Latest)\nShowing 1 - 8 of 11 results\nCost Recovery Implementation Statements\n03 Oct 2025\nAFMA's Cost Recovery Implementation Statement 2025–26\nCost Recovery Implementation Statements\n26 Jul 2024\nAFMA's Cost Recovery Implementation Statement 2024–25\nCost Recovery Implementation Statements\n10 Aug 2023\n Source: `pages/announcements-index.html (http://www.afma.gov.au/corporate-and-reports?combine=&field_corporate_publication_type_target_id%5B281%5D=281&field_published_date_value=)`\n- Policy/Guideline Purpose\nCommonwealth Primary objective is to minimise fishing-related impacts on\nFisheries Bycatch general bycatch species in a manner consistent with the\nPolicy and principles of ESD and with regard to the structure, productivity,\nGuidelines 2018 function and biological diversity of the ecosystem.\n(CFPB 2018)\nCommonwealth Requires the ecologically sustainable and profitable use of\nHarvest Strategy Australia’s Commonwealth commercial fisheries resources\nPolicy and (where ecological sustainability takes priority)—through the\nGuidelines 2018 implementation of harvest strategies for key commercial species.\n(HSP 2018) It specifies target (economic) reference points for key commercial\nspecies and limit (sustainability) reference points for key\ncommercial and byproduct species.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Yes TBD TBD TBD NFA\n(role in\nretained,\nfishery\ndiscarded)\nbased,\nprotected Life status (Alive, Yes TBD TBD TBD NFA\nspecies dead)\nbased)\nSAFE Average age TBD P1 missing TBD Varies by N/A NFA\nP1 & P2 at maturity attributes for species\nAverage max 35/267 species\nage (from initial\nspecies scoping\nlist)\nP2= missing\nattributes for\n42/267\nNatural TBD Missing attributes TBD Varies by N/A NFA\nIncrease for 94 /267 species\nspecies\nNatural TBD Missing attributes TBD Varies by N/A NFA\nmortality for 49 /267 species\nspecies\nL infinity TBD Missing attributes TBD Varies by N/A NFA\nfor 25 /267 species Would need a\nspecies desktop study to\nfill in\nGrowth co- TBD Missing attributes TBD Varies by N/A NFA\nefficient for 27 /267 species\nspecies\nTable 21 Data/information utilised to implement Total Allowable Commercial Catches (TACCs) in the\nETBF\nTACC Implementation\nData/information type Data/Information source\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n\n### Strategic Priorities\n\n- [Page 10]\nHarvest Strategy Framework\n1 Overview of the SESSF harvest strategy\n1.1 The Harvest Strategy Policy\nThe objective of the Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy 2018 (2018 HSP) is the\nsustainable and profitable use of Australia’s Commonwealth commercial fisheries resources (where\necological sustainability takes priority) through the implementation of harvest strategies that\nmaintain key commercial fish stocks, on average, at the required target biomass to produce\nmaximum economic yield from the fishery.\n Source: `strategies/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf)`\n- Policy/Guideline Purpose\nCommonwealth Primary objective is to minimise fishing-related impacts on\nFisheries Bycatch general bycatch species in a manner consistent with the\nPolicy and principles of ESD and with regard to the structure, productivity,\nGuidelines 2018 function and biological diversity of the ecosystem.\n(CFPB 2018)\nCommonwealth Requires the ecologically sustainable and profitable use of\nHarvest Strategy Australia’s Commonwealth commercial fisheries resources\nPolicy and (where ecological sustainability takes priority)—through the\nGuidelines 2018 implementation of harvest strategies for key commercial species.\n(HSP 2018) It specifies target (economic) reference points for key commercial\nspecies and limit (sustainability) reference points for key\ncommercial and byproduct species.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- 3.1.3 HSP 2018 Objectives\nThe high-level objective of the HSP (2018) is:\n• the ecologically sustainable and profitable use of Australia’s Commonwealth\ncommercial fisheries resources (where ecological sustainability takes priority)—\nthrough the implementation of harvest strategies.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- 7.4.1 Provision of Data\n• Provision of biological data to support relevant projects (Stock assessments)\n• Provision of economic data to support relevant projects\n• Provision of environmental data to support relevant projects\n• Provision of recreational catch data to support relevant projects\n7.4.2 Biological Research Priorities\n• Stock assessments\nEnsure stock assessments are conducted on target species in Australia’s\no\nTropical Tuna and Billfish Fisheries.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- 2 Background to the SESSF\nAn overview of the fishery can be found in the latest SESSF Management Arrangements booklet,\nwhich is available on the AFMA website at: https://www.afma.gov.au/commercial-\nfishers/management-arrangements/management-booklets#referenced-section-10\n3 Commercial species or stocks and ERA priority\nThis HSF applies to all 34 species subject to quota (including target and non-target species) in the\nSESSF.\n Source: `strategies/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf)`\n- [pages 4,5,6]\nAustralia’s Commonwealth fisheries resources\n(where ecological sustainability takes priority) - through the implementation of harvest strategies.\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Aquarium-20Sector-20Harvest-20Strategy-20Fra.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Aquarium%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy%20Framework.pdf)`\n- Species-specific triggers(high risk/vulnerable AND key species)\n Whitetip reef shark: Level 1: 2.5t (1/6 historical high catch); Level 2: 5t (1/3 historical high\ncatch).\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Information Line (shark, Trap Trawl\nscalefish)\nCatch and effort: over 20 Per day, Per trap lift, Per shot\ndays minimum; inconsistent latitude, latitude, longitude\nover time longitude\nObserver data: species No First trip then 1 in First trip\ncomposition, length requirement 4; 1 in 8 after 1000 then 1 in 4\nfrequency, otoliths, wildlife except on trap sets\ninteractions autolongliners\n Undertake risk assessment\n21\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- The 30 t trigger (a value approximately an order of magnitude higher\nthan historic catch levels) can be defended both in this context, and given that it is\nimposed together with move-on provisions and spatial closures.\n Seek to improve the record of catch by species and thus revisit the total trigger\n(develop species identification guides for industry)\n Reaching the 30 t catch trigger in one year should result in\no an assessment (e.g. analysis of CPUE trends, spatial patterns) with\nconsideration of adjacent fisheries\no increased monitoring (i.e. size information)\nwithin the next 12 months, for purposes of setting a TAC or revised trigger (noting\nthat these can be adjusted up or down).\no if the assessment is not completed within 12 months, there are to be no\nfurther increases in catch(i.e. annual catch must not exceed 30t).\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Lobster-20and-20Trochus-20Sector-20Harvest-2.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nDistribution List\nTitle Name Date\nAFMA Staff and Commissioners; AFMA\nWebsite\nTTMAC/TTRAG MAC and RAG members\nGovernment Department of Agriculture, Water and\nDepartments the Environment\nVersion Control\n# Status Change Description Author(s) Date\n01 Version 1.1 First Adopted ETBF FMS AFMA May 2019\n02 Version 1.2 Revised swordfish harvest AFMA September 2020\nstrategy (Chpt3) and seabird\nconditions (Chpt4)\n03 Version 1.3 Updated to meet accessibility AFMA October 2020\nrequirements\n04 Version 1.4 Updated cover photo, AFMA February 2021\nAppendix E updated\nAcknowledgements\nAFMA is grateful for and would like to acknowledge the substantial inputs and\ncontributions of a broad range of stakeholders in the development of this Fishery\nManagement Strategy, including: Members of the following advisory committees – the\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n\n## KPIs, Targets, and Where They Are At\n\n- A key result of the project was improvements to the Tier 3 and Tier 4\nrules, which now have well defined target harvest levels analogous to those used in the Tier 1\nassessments for the major commercial species, recognising that Tier 3 and Tier 4 assessments are\nbased on less information than Tier 1.\n Source: `strategies/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf)`\n- The 30 t trigger (a value approximately an order of magnitude higher\nthan historic catch levels) can be defended both in this context, and given that it is\nimposed together with move-on provisions and spatial closures.\n Seek to improve the record of catch by species and thus revisit the total trigger\n(develop species identification guides for industry)\n Reaching the 30 t catch trigger in one year should result in\no an assessment (e.g. analysis of CPUE trends, spatial patterns) with\nconsideration of adjacent fisheries\no increased monitoring (i.e. size information)\nwithin the next 12 months, for purposes of setting a TAC or revised trigger (noting\nthat these can be adjusted up or down).\no if the assessment is not completed within 12 months, there are to be no\nfurther increases in catch(i.e. annual catch must not exceed 30t).\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Lobster-20and-20Trochus-20Sector-20Harvest-2.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nGlossary\nAFMA Australian Fisheries Management Authority\nAFZ Australian Fishing Zone\nARC AFMA Research Committee\nB Biomass\nB Biomass limit reference point\nLIM\nB Biomass that provides the maximum economic yield\nMEY\nB Biomass that provides the maximum sustainable fishing mortality\nMSM\nB Biomass that provides the maximum sustainable yield\nMSY\nB Target biomass\nTARG\nBRD Bycatch Reduction Device\nbSAFE base Sustainability Analysis for Fishing Effects\nCDR Catch Disposal Record\nCEO Chief Executive Officer\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nCSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation\nDAWE Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment\nEBFM Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management\nEM Electronic Monitoring\nEMS Environmental Management System\nEPBC Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1991\n1999\nERA Ecological Risk Assessment\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- ETBF objectives and performance measurement\nFor each of the above legislative objectives1, this ETBF FMS specifies fishery-specific\noperational objectives (consistent with those in the ETBF Fishery Management Plan\n2010), which align directly with a range of Commonwealth and internal AFMA fisheries\npolicies and guidelines, including in particular:\n• The Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy (2018) and Guidelines\n• The Commonwealth Fisheries Bycatch Policy (2018) and Guidelines\n• Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries (2007)\n• AFMA Ecological Risk Management Guide (2017)\nFor each operational objective, it is intended that the FMS list the indicators and\nperformance measures required to pursue and measure performance against its legislative\n1 With the exception of the cost recovery objective\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- The FMA 1991 requires that AFMA pursue the following objectives in all of\nits fisheries:\n1. implementing efficient and cost-effective fisheries management on behalf of the\nCommonwealth; and\n2. ensuring that the exploitation of fisheries resources and the carrying on of any\nrelated activities are conducted in a manner consistent with the principles of\necologically sustainable development (which include the exercise of the\nprecautionary principle), in particular the need to have regard to the impact of\nfishing activities on non-target species and the long-term sustainability of the marine\nenvironment; and\n3. maximising the net economic returns to the Australian community from the\nmanagement of Australian fisheries; and\n4. ensuring accountability to the fishing industry and to the Australian community in\nAFMA’s management of fisheries resources; and\n5.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- The most recent assessment (in 2019) of the ETBF for the purposes of the\nprotected species provisions of Part 13 and the wildlife trade provisions of Part 13A\nof the EPBC Act determined that, as a result of the management arrangements in\nplace:\n• It is unlikely that fishing operations conducted in accordance with the\nETBF FMP 2010 will adversely affect the conservation status of listed\nmarine species, migratory species or cetaceans, nor adversely affect the\nsurvival or recovery in nature of listed threatened species.\n• Under the Plan, operators are required to take all reasonable steps to\navoid killing or injuring of species protected under Part 13 of the EPBC\nAct.\n• The fishery operates in accordance with the Guidelines for the\nEcologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries – 2nd Edition.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- From these analyses, the period 2008 –\n2015 was identified as a reference period over which CPUE has been stable, with average CPUE\nover this period potentially representing an MSY (~0.4B ) target proxy, and half this level\n0\nSecuring Australia’s fishing future AFMA.GOV.AU 7 of 20\n Source: `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf)`\n- Also shown are the recent 3-year averages of\nCPUE, for comparison with limit levels. (* Target reference periods: scampi 2008 - 2015; bugs 2002 -\n2019; snappers 2000 - 2020)\nWestern Deepwater Trawl Fishery\nSpecies/ Group Average CPUE Limit CPUE Recent 3 yr\n(kg/tow) (kg/tow) average CPUE\nBugs (all species) 167 83 181\nRuby Snapper 115 57 134\nSnappers (all 174 87 181\nspecies)\nNorth West Slope Trawl Fishery\nSpecies/ Group Average CPUE Limit CPUE Recent 3 yr\n(kg/tow) (kg/tow) average CPUE\nSecuring Australia’s fishing future AFMA.GOV.AU 12 of 20\n Source: `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nNPF Harvest Strategy 2024\nGlossary\nTypes of reference points\nReference Point Description\nTarget (TRP) The desired state of the stock or fishery (for example, MEY or B )\nTARG\nLimit (LRP) The level of an indicator (such as biomass or fishing mortality) beyond which\nthe risk of overfished to the stock is regarded as unacceptably high\nMSY maximum sustainable yield\nMEY maximum economic yield\nNotation\nNotation Description\nB biomass level\nB the biomass level in a particular year\nY\nB the unfished biomass (determined from an appropriate reference point)\n0\nB the biomass level representing x% of the unfished biomass B\nX 0\nB the point beyond which the risk to the stock is regarded as unacceptably high\nLIM\nB the biomass level representing maximum economic yield\nMEY\nB the biomass level representing maximum sustainable yield\nMSY\n Source: `strategies/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf)`\n- Table 2: Summary of key changes to the NPF Harvest Strategy\nVersion Updates Date\nVersion 1 First NPF harvest strategy under input controls including: 2007\n(Original)\n- MEY TRP\n- MSY LRP\n- Tiger prawn decision rules to adjust effort levels\n- Changes to season dates\n- In season triggers for tiger and banana prawns\nVersion 1.1 MET for tiger prawn fishery introduced 2009\nVersion 1.2 - MET for tiger prawn fishery updated 2010\n- Season dates and decision rule reporting periods amended for\nthe banana prawn season\n- Removal of tiger prawn trigger limit in the banana season\nVersion 2 - Inclusion of the redleg banana prawn 2012\n- Catch (instead of effort) limits for scampi\n- Review triggers introduced for squid and bugs\n- Banana prawn decision rules amended to reduce (rather than\nextend) season and updates to reporting periods\n- Effort threshold for the tiger prawn fishery updated\nVersion 2.\n Source: `strategies/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf)`\n- [pages 8,9,10]\nthe collection of 2014\neconomic data added\n- Change from catch-rate to MEY catch trigger for banana\nprawns (approved by the AFMA Commission in 2013)\n- Banana season reporting periods reduced\nVersion 2.2 Updates to the scampi decision rules October 2019\nVersion 2.3 - Update to the ‘Other Target and Byproduct Species’ section September 2022\n(including scampi catch limit and review triggers for scallops\nand cuttlefish)\n- Inclusion of new redleg banana prawn decision rule\n- General updates to the background sections and review\nsections\nVersion 2.4 - Update to include specific decision rules for red endeavour September 2024\nprawns\n- Update to the tiger prawn fishery MET\n- General updates to reflect other updates to the NPF stock\nassessment base case\nNPF Harvest Strategy 2024 AFMA.GOV.AU 8 of 37\n Source: `strategies/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf)`\n- Yes\nIf B : At or above target, fish at F .\n Source: `strategies/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf)`\n- 48 48\nTier 3 F Limit Catch, discards, age, length information from: >F : No 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biomass of scallops of a minimum size limit\nof 85 mm of high density | `strategies/Bass-20Strait-20Central-20Zone-20Scallop-20Fishery-20Harvest-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Bass%20Strait%20Central%20Zone%20Scallop%20Fishery%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)` |\n| $1,201,200 , $850,000 , $1,100,000 | The GVP of the combined Coral Sea Fishery was $1,201,200 in 2002/03,\n$850,000 in 2003/04, $1,100,000 in 2004/05.\ni) Line sub-fishery (auto-longline, demersal longlone, other line)\nThere are nine fishing concessions across the multi-gear, multi-method line sector. | `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)` |\n| 50% | If this is accompanied by a ≥50%2 overall decline in CPUE over the last 3 years2,\ninvoke a Level 2 response.\n If the relative proportion of any species in the catch declines interannually by 10% or greater\nover 3 consecutive years, invoke a Level 1 response. | `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)` |\n| 40% | Triggers pertaining to spatial changes\n If the following changes occur:\n i) the percentage of areas fished increases by ≥40%2 (fishery expansion) OR\n ii) the percentage of areas fished decreases by ≥40%2 (fishery contraction), OR\n iii) if ≥40%2 of the total catch is taken from a single area (fishery contraction/undue\nfishing pressure on one area) OR\n iv) if ≥40%2 of once-exploited areas are no longer fished\ninvoke a Level 1 response to deter | `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)` |\n| 50% | Triggers pertaining to CPUE\n If CPUE for any species shows a decline over the last three years2, but without any of the above\nindicators being triggered, a Level 1 response shall be invoked if the decline is less than or equal\nto 50%2, and a Level 2 response shall be invoked if the decline is greater than 50%2. | `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)` |\n| 50% | If this is accompanied by a ≥50%2 overall decline in CPUE over the last three years2,\ninvoke a Level 2 response.\n If the relative proportion of any species in the catch declines interannually by 10% or greater\nover 3 consecutive years, invoke a Level 1 response. | `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)` |\n| 40% | [Page 16]\n If the following changes occur:\n i) the percentage of areas fished increases by ≥40%2 (fishery expansion) OR\n ii) the percentage of areas fished decreases by ≥40%2 (fishery contraction), OR\n iii) if ≥40%2 of the total catch is taken from a single area (fishery contraction/undue\nfishing pressure on one area) OR\n iv) if ≥40%2 of once-exploited areas are no longer fished\ninvoke a Level 1 response to determine why, with the added opti | `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)` |\n\n## Key Achievements\n\n- The 30 t trigger (a value approximately an order of magnitude higher\nthan historic catch levels) can be defended both in this context, and given that it is\nimposed together with move-on provisions and spatial closures.\n Seek to improve the record of catch by species and thus revisit the total trigger\n(develop species identification guides for industry)\n Reaching the 30 t catch trigger in one year should result in\no an assessment (e.g. analysis of CPUE trends, spatial patterns) with\nconsideration of adjacent fisheries\no increased monitoring (i.e. size information)\nwithin the next 12 months, for purposes of setting a TAC or revised trigger (noting\nthat these can be adjusted up or down).\no if the assessment is not completed within 12 months, there are to be no\nfurther increases in catch(i.e. annual catch must not exceed 30t).\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Lobster-20and-20Trochus-20Sector-20Harvest-2.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Read more\nAustralian Fisheries\nCompliance\nResearch\nSustainability\nNews\n16 Mar 2026\nAFMA Update: Annual highlights and key achievements\nRead more\nAustralian Fisheries\nCompliance\nNews\n12 Mar 2026\n14 Indonesian nationals sentenced for illegal fishing\nThis is a joint media release from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and Australian Border Force (ABF).\n Source: `pages/media-releases-index.html (http://www.afma.gov.au/news)`\n- [Page 22]\n Set initial catch triggers for key species (irrespective of fishing method) that are\ndemonstrably precautionary\n Monitor fishery CPUE/length (refine existing approach)\n If triggered, implement increased monitoring – eg age ‘snapshots’\n Enables assessment at Tier 3 level\n Cease targeted fishing if a trigger is reached in any one year\no Note trigger remains at this level until an assessment is completed\n Key species to be determined via\no time series of logbook catch compositions (Table 1, Figure 6)\no identification of high-risk species (including sharks)\n Triggers may be area-specific.\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Decision Rules (see subsequent section for annotated version with\nadditional explanation and rationale)\nLobster:\n Reaching the 30 t catch trigger in one year should result in\no an assessment with consideration of adjacent fisheries\no increased monitoring (i.e. size information)\nwithin the next 12 months, for purposes of setting a TAC or revised trigger\no if the assessment is not completed within 12 months, there are to be no\nfurther increases in catch (i.e. annual catch must not exceed 30t).\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Lobster-20and-20Trochus-20Sector-20Harvest-2.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Trochus\n Reaching the 30 t catch trigger in one year should result in\no an assessment with consideration of adjacent fisheries\no increased monitoring (i.e. size information)\nwithin the next 12 months, for purposes of setting a TAC or revised trigger\no if no assessment is undertaken within 12 months, a TAC will be set at 20 t\nuntil the assessment is completed.\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Lobster-20and-20Trochus-20Sector-20Harvest-2.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [pages 3,4,5]\nconsideration of adjacent fisheries\no increased monitoring (i.e. size information)\nwithin the next 12 months, for purposes of setting a TAC or revised trigger\no if no assessment is undertaken within 12 months, a TAC will be set at 20 t\nuntil the assessment is completed.\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Lobster-20and-20Trochus-20Sector-20Harvest-2.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 14]\nNPF Harvest Strategy 2024\nThe mid-season closure to protect pre-spawning tiger prawns was implemented in 1987, with the current\nclosure from 15 June to 1 August introduced in 2013.\n Source: `strategies/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf)`\n- Legal Expenditure\n03 Mar 2026\n2025 Senate Order on Entity Contracts – listing for the period 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025\nFile Listing Reports\n12 Feb 2026\nFile listing report 1 July to 31 December 2025\nHuman Resources Policies\n24 Nov 2025\n2025 AFMA Census Action Plan and Highlights Report\nAnnual Reports\n13 Oct 2025\n2024–25 Annual Report\nCost Recovery Implementation Statements\n03 Oct 2025\nAFMA's Cost Recovery Implementation Statement 2025–26\n03 Oct 2025\nGifts and benefits\n25 Sep 2025\nStatement of intent 2025\nThis Regulator Statement of Intent (SOI) outlines how the Chief Executive Officer will respond to those expectations as the Accountable Authority for AFMA.\n Source: `pages/publications-index.html (http://www.afma.gov.au/corporate-and-reports)`\n- Species-specific triggers(high risk/vulnerable AND key species)\n Whitetip reef shark: Level 1: 2.5t (1/6 historical high catch); Level 2: 5t (1/3 historical high\ncatch).\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Information Line (shark, Trap Trawl\nscalefish)\nCatch and effort: over 20 Per day, Per trap lift, Per shot\ndays minimum; inconsistent latitude, latitude, longitude\nover time longitude\nObserver data: species No First trip then 1 in First trip\ncomposition, length requirement 4; 1 in 8 after 1000 then 1 in 4\nfrequency, otoliths, wildlife except on trap sets\ninteractions autolongliners\n Undertake risk assessment\n21\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nDistribution List\nTitle Name Date\nAFMA Staff and Commissioners; AFMA\nWebsite\nTTMAC/TTRAG MAC and RAG members\nGovernment Department of Agriculture, Water and\nDepartments the Environment\nVersion Control\n# Status Change Description Author(s) Date\n01 Version 1.1 First Adopted ETBF FMS AFMA May 2019\n02 Version 1.2 Revised swordfish harvest AFMA September 2020\nstrategy (Chpt3) and seabird\nconditions (Chpt4)\n03 Version 1.3 Updated to meet accessibility AFMA October 2020\nrequirements\n04 Version 1.4 Updated cover photo, AFMA February 2021\nAppendix E updated\nAcknowledgements\nAFMA is grateful for and would like to acknowledge the substantial inputs and\ncontributions of a broad range of stakeholders in the development of this Fishery\nManagement Strategy, including: Members of the following advisory committees – the\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nGlossary\nAFMA Australian Fisheries Management Authority\nAFZ Australian Fishing Zone\nARC AFMA Research Committee\nB Biomass\nB Biomass limit reference point\nLIM\nB Biomass that provides the maximum economic yield\nMEY\nB Biomass that provides the maximum sustainable fishing mortality\nMSM\nB Biomass that provides the maximum sustainable yield\nMSY\nB Target biomass\nTARG\nBRD Bycatch Reduction Device\nbSAFE base Sustainability Analysis for Fishing Effects\nCDR Catch Disposal Record\nCEO Chief Executive Officer\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nCSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation\nDAWE Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment\nEBFM Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management\nEM Electronic Monitoring\nEMS Environmental Management System\nEPBC Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1991\n1999\nERA Ecological Risk Assessment\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n\n## Key Issues, Risks, and Recommendations\n\n- Species-specific triggers(high risk/vulnerable AND key species)\n Whitetip reef shark: Level 1: 2.5t (1/6 historical high catch); Level 2: 5t (1/3 historical high\ncatch).\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Information Line (shark, Trap Trawl\nscalefish)\nCatch and effort: over 20 Per day, Per trap lift, Per shot\ndays minimum; inconsistent latitude, latitude, longitude\nover time longitude\nObserver data: species No First trip then 1 in First trip\ncomposition, length requirement 4; 1 in 8 after 1000 then 1 in 4\nfrequency, otoliths, wildlife except on trap sets\ninteractions autolongliners\n Undertake risk assessment\n21\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 2]\nDistribution List\nTitle Name Date\nAFMA Staff and Commissioners; AFMA\nWebsite\nTTMAC/TTRAG MAC and RAG members\nGovernment Department of Agriculture, Water and\nDepartments the Environment\nVersion Control\n# Status Change Description Author(s) Date\n01 Version 1.1 First Adopted ETBF FMS AFMA May 2019\n02 Version 1.2 Revised swordfish harvest AFMA September 2020\nstrategy (Chpt3) and seabird\nconditions (Chpt4)\n03 Version 1.3 Updated to meet accessibility AFMA October 2020\nrequirements\n04 Version 1.4 Updated cover photo, AFMA February 2021\nAppendix E updated\nAcknowledgements\nAFMA is grateful for and would like to acknowledge the substantial inputs and\ncontributions of a broad range of stakeholders in the development of this Fishery\nManagement Strategy, including: Members of the following advisory committees – the\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nGlossary\nAFMA Australian Fisheries Management Authority\nAFZ Australian Fishing Zone\nARC AFMA Research Committee\nB Biomass\nB Biomass limit reference point\nLIM\nB Biomass that provides the maximum economic yield\nMEY\nB Biomass that provides the maximum sustainable fishing mortality\nMSM\nB Biomass that provides the maximum sustainable yield\nMSY\nB Target biomass\nTARG\nBRD Bycatch Reduction Device\nbSAFE base Sustainability Analysis for Fishing Effects\nCDR Catch Disposal Record\nCEO Chief Executive Officer\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nCSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation\nDAWE Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment\nEBFM Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management\nEM Electronic Monitoring\nEMS Environmental Management System\nEPBC Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1991\n1999\nERA Ecological Risk Assessment\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- ETBF objectives and performance measurement\nFor each of the above legislative objectives1, this ETBF FMS specifies fishery-specific\noperational objectives (consistent with those in the ETBF Fishery Management Plan\n2010), which align directly with a range of Commonwealth and internal AFMA fisheries\npolicies and guidelines, including in particular:\n• The Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy (2018) and Guidelines\n• The Commonwealth Fisheries Bycatch Policy (2018) and Guidelines\n• Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries (2007)\n• AFMA Ecological Risk Management Guide (2017)\nFor each operational objective, it is intended that the FMS list the indicators and\nperformance measures required to pursue and measure performance against its legislative\n1 With the exception of the cost recovery objective\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Other\nETBF strategies were developed to operationalise the ETBF FMP 2010, including the\nETBF Harvest Strategy 2011, the ETBF Ecological Risk Management Report 2012, the\nETBF Bycatch and Discard Workplan 2014-2016, the ETBF Five Year Research Strategy\n2017-2021, the ETBF Data Strategy 2006 and a number of cross fishery plans for EPBC\nlisted species (e.g.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- In order to operationalize and achieve these objectives and associated policy\nrequirements, this ETBF Bycatch Strategy has drawn upon guidance from:\n• the Commonwealth Policy on Fisheries Bycatch 2018 and associated\nGuidelines – which address management requirements relating to general\nbycatch species;\n• the AFMA Bycatch Strategy 2017-2022 and associated sub-strategies -\nwhich focusses on requirements for managing interactions with EPBC listed\nspecies;\n• the AFMA Ecological Risk Management Guide 2017;\n• the Guidelines for Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries 2007;\nand\nThis FMS is designed to be consistent with the overarching AFMA Bycatch\nStrategy 2017-2022 guiding principles:\n• Management responses are proportionate to the conservation status of\naffected species and Ecological Risk Assessment results\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 71]\n4.4 Risk Assessment Summary\n4.4.1 Ecological sustainability\n4.4.1.1 Assessment methods\nThere are four key types of assessments undertaken to determine AFMAs\nperformance against bycatch objectives stated in Table 10.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 106]\nEcological Risk Assessment Data Review\nP7= missing\nattributes for\n49/267\nS1=0 Availability Spatial distribution Yes TBD TBD TBD NFA\n(overlap with\n(1,6,..oth)\nfishery)\nEffort Yes TBD TBD TBD NFA\nSpecies Yes TBD TBD TBD NFA\ndistribution (e.g.\ndepth range)\nTagging data Yes TBD TBD TBD NFA\nS2=16 Encounterabi Seabed imagery N/A TBD TBD TBD NFA\nlity (habitat or potential habitat\nand type (water\nbathymetry) column position,\nadult habitat)\nDepth range of Yes TBD TBD TBD NFA\ngear\nDepth range of Attribute missing Species Varies by Species NFA\nspecies for some species range is species specific For some\nrequired to habitat species, the\ndetermine data required\noverlap with missing for information is\nfishing gear some unavailable.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- Commonwealth of Australia (2018), Fisheries Research and Science Quality Assurance\nPolicy, Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2018) Seabird Bycatch Operational Guidelines for\nCommonwealth Fisheries, Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2017), Guide to AFMA’s Ecological Risk Management,\nAustralian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2017), AFMA Bycatch Strategy: Mitigating protected species\ninteractions and general bycatch 2017-2022, Australian Fisheries Management\nAuthority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2017) Recovery Plan for Marine Turtles Australia,\nDepartment of the Environment and Energy, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2017), AFMA Strategic Research Plan 2017-2022, Australian\nFisheries Management Authority, Canberra\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [pages 114,115,116,117]\nagement Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2016), Bycatch Handling: AFMA Bycatch handling and\ntreatment Guide 2016/17, Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2014) Australian Tuna and Billfish Fisheries: Bycatch and\nDiscarding Workplan, Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2013) Quota Administration Policy, Australian Fisheries\nManagement Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2012) National Plan of Action for the Conservation and\nManagement of Sharks 2012: Shark-plan 2, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries\nand Forestry, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2012) Ecological Risk Management: Report for the Eastern\nTuna and Billfish Fishery, Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 115]\nCommonwealth of Australia (2011) National recovery plan for threatened albatrosses and\ngiant petrels 2011-2016, Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water,\nPopulation and Communities, Hobart\nCommonwealth of Australia (2009) Chondrichtyan guide for fisheries managers: A\npractical guide to mitigating chondrichtyan bycatch, Bureau of Rural Science and\nAustralian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2007), Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable\nManagement of Fisheries, Department of the Environment and Water Resources,\nCanberra\nEnvironmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Commonwealth)\nETBF Fishery Management Plan 2010 (Commonwealth)\nFisheries Management Act 1991 (Commonwealth)\nFood and Agriculture Organisation (1999), International Plan of Action for Conservation\nand Management of Sharks, Rome\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [pages 3,4,5]\nonomics and Science\nAFZ Australian Fishing Zone\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nDCCEEW Departments of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water\nEPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\nERA Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing\nFRDC Fisheries Research and Development Corporation\nGABTS Great Australian Bight Sector\nGVP Gross value of production\nHSF Harvest Strategy Framework\nHSP Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy 2018\nMSY Maximum sustainable yield\nNPF Northern Prawn Fishery\nNWSTF North West Slope Trawl Fishery\nSAFS Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports\nSESSF Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery\nWDTF Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery\nWTO Wildlife Trade Organisation\nSecuring Australia’s fishing future AFMA.GOV.AU 3 of 20\n Source: `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf)`\n- [Page 12]\nHarvest Strategy for the Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery and North West Slope Trawl Fishery\nNorth West Slope Trawl Fishery\nPink Striped Prawn 2 4\nRed Prawn 1 4\nGiant Scarlet Prawn # 1 1\nPrawns (all species) 9 25\nSquids (all species) 5 13\n# high risk species in 2007 ERA\nLevel 2 CPUE triggers\nTable 2 Average annual CPUE (kg/tow) over chosen reference periods* for bugs and\nsnapper species in the WDTF and for scampi species in the NWSTF with limit CPUE triggers\nset at half the reference period averages.\n Source: `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf)`\n\n## Corporate Values and Operating Culture\n\n- The 30 t trigger (a value approximately an order of magnitude higher\nthan historic catch levels) can be defended both in this context, and given that it is\nimposed together with move-on provisions and spatial closures.\n Seek to improve the record of catch by species and thus revisit the total trigger\n(develop species identification guides for industry)\n Reaching the 30 t catch trigger in one year should result in\no an assessment (e.g. analysis of CPUE trends, spatial patterns) with\nconsideration of adjacent fisheries\no increased monitoring (i.e. size information)\nwithin the next 12 months, for purposes of setting a TAC or revised trigger (noting\nthat these can be adjusted up or down).\no if the assessment is not completed within 12 months, there are to be no\nfurther increases in catch(i.e. annual catch must not exceed 30t).\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Lobster-20and-20Trochus-20Sector-20Harvest-2.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- The FMA 1991 requires that AFMA pursue the following objectives in all of\nits fisheries:\n1. implementing efficient and cost-effective fisheries management on behalf of the\nCommonwealth; and\n2. ensuring that the exploitation of fisheries resources and the carrying on of any\nrelated activities are conducted in a manner consistent with the principles of\necologically sustainable development (which include the exercise of the\nprecautionary principle), in particular the need to have regard to the impact of\nfishing activities on non-target species and the long-term sustainability of the marine\nenvironment; and\n3. maximising the net economic returns to the Australian community from the\nmanagement of Australian fisheries; and\n4. ensuring accountability to the fishing industry and to the Australian community in\nAFMA’s management of fisheries resources; and\n5.\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- In order to operationalize and achieve these objectives and associated policy\nrequirements, this ETBF Bycatch Strategy has drawn upon guidance from:\n• the Commonwealth Policy on Fisheries Bycatch 2018 and associated\nGuidelines – which address management requirements relating to general\nbycatch species;\n• the AFMA Bycatch Strategy 2017-2022 and associated sub-strategies -\nwhich focusses on requirements for managing interactions with EPBC listed\nspecies;\n• the AFMA Ecological Risk Management Guide 2017;\n• the Guidelines for Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries 2007;\nand\nThis FMS is designed to be consistent with the overarching AFMA Bycatch\nStrategy 2017-2022 guiding principles:\n• Management responses are proportionate to the conservation status of\naffected species and Ecological Risk Assessment results\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [pages 3,4,5]\nonomics and Science\nAFZ Australian Fishing Zone\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nDCCEEW Departments of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water\nEPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\nERA Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing\nFRDC Fisheries Research and Development Corporation\nGABTS Great Australian Bight Sector\nGVP Gross value of production\nHSF Harvest Strategy Framework\nHSP Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy 2018\nMSY Maximum sustainable yield\nNPF Northern Prawn Fishery\nNWSTF North West Slope Trawl Fishery\nSAFS Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports\nSESSF Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery\nWDTF Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery\nWTO Wildlife Trade Organisation\nSecuring Australia’s fishing future AFMA.GOV.AU 3 of 20\n Source: `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf)`\n- [Page 17]\nCoral Sea Fishery Sea Cucumber Sector Harvest Strategy\n6 Process for review\nThe SCHS will be reviewed at least once every 5 years, although can be reviewed earlier, for\nexample if:\n• Significant changes in catches or fishing behaviour, for example a 50% or higher increase in\ncatches or effort compared with the previous 3-fishing seasons averages for the fishery.\n• Available information indicates a high likelihood that the aspirational proxy LRP of B is\n40\nreached or exceeded for any sea cucumber species.\n• New information emerges that substantially changes understanding of the fishery, leading to\nrevised estimates of indicators such as catch rates or nominal CPUE.\n• External drivers have unexpectedly increased the risk to a fishery and fish stocks, including\nenvironmental or climate drivers that have substantially altered the productivity\n Source: `strategies/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-05/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pdf)`\n- Harvest Strategy and stock indicators Data review\nCovera Purpose and need Accuracy Data gap Action TTRAG\nge of data comment\nData type (and source) Variables\nCPUE Spatio- Start and ~100% The CPUE Location of No data gap Check if AAP audit None\nstandardisations temporal End standardisation is fishing can but logbook fishing\n(1,6) Latitude spatially structured and be verified verification locations against\nand contains variables via EM or requires EM – do they notify\nlongitude of “Area” and Vessel (1x1 VMS checking AFMA if\ndegree) derived from discrepancy?\nfishing\nlatitude and longitude\noperation\ndata\nDate and ~100% Catch rates can vary Location of As above As above None\ntime of start depending on time of fishing can\nand end of year and time of day be verified\nfishing (due to seasonal, diel via EM or\noperation patterns in species VMS\nbehaviour).\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nHarvest Strategy for the Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery and North West Slope Trawl Fishery\nGlossary\nAcronym Term\nABARES Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Science\nAFZ Australian Fishing Zone\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nDCCEEW Departments of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water\nEPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\nERA Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing\nFRDC Fisheries Research and Development Corporation\nGABTS Great Australian Bight Sector\nGVP Gross value of production\nHSF Harvest Strategy Framework\nHSP Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy 2018\nMSY Maximum sustainable yield\nNPF Northern Prawn Fishery\nNWSTF North West Slope Trawl Fishery\nSAFS Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports\nSESSF Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery\nWDTF Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery\n Source: `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf)`\n- The fishery to which this Arrangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section 9 of the Management Act does not extend to or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Australian fishing zone\nthat lie within the area described in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands)\nAct 1967 under the heading “Area that includes the Adjacent Area in respect of\nQueensland”, west of Longitude 142°31’49’’ East, for all species of the Class\nOsteichthyes and Class Chondrichthyes, except for:\n(a) the following fish taken in the fishery for tuna and tuna like species\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pdf (http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Queensland%20Fisheries%20Joint%20Authority%20Annual%20Report%202017-18.pdf)`\n\n## Global Ideas and Case Study Inputs\n\n_No global-intelligence source text found yet. Run `CLAUDE/global-ideas-scraper.py ` to populate case-study sources._\n\n## Source Artifacts Used\n\n- `annual-reports/2017-18.pdf` - annual-reports - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Queensland%20Fisheries%20Joint%20Authority%20Annual%20Report%202017-18.pdf\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pdf` - annual-reports - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Queensland%20Fisheries%20Joint%20Authority%20Annual%20Report%202018-19.pdf\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pdf` - annual-reports - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Queensland%20Fisheries%20Joint%20Authority%20Annual%20Report%202019-20.pdf\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pdf` - annual-reports - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/qfja_2020-21.pdf\n- `annual-reports/2021-22.pdf` - annual-reports - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/qfja_2021-22.pdf\n- `strategies/Bass-20Strait-20Central-20Zone-20Scallop-20Fishery-20Harvest-20Strategy.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Bass%20Strait%20Central%20Zone%20Scallop%20Fishery%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf\n- `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Aquarium-20Sector-20Harvest-20Strategy-20Fra.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Aquarium%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy%20Framework.pdf\n- `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Line-20Trawl-20and-20Trap-20Sector-20Harvest.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf\n- `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Lobster-20and-20Trochus-20Sector-20Harvest-2.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf\n- `strategies/NAFC-Strategic-Plan-May-2014.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/NAFC-Strategic-Plan-May-2014.pdf\n- `strategies/SSJF-20Harvest-20Strategy-202022.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-10/SSJF%20Harvest%20Strategy%202022.pdf\n- `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf\n- `strategies/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf\n- `strategies/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/SESSF-Harvest-Strategy-Amended-2024.pdf\n- `strategies/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-05/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pdf\n- `strategies/SPF-Harvest-Strategy-2025.pdf` - strategies - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-04/SPF-Harvest-Strategy-2025.pdf\n- `pages/about.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/who-we-are/contact-us/office-locations\n- `pages/announcements-index.html` - 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pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/ntfja_2021-22.pdf\n- `pages/annual-reports-index__06.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/ntfja_2020-21.pdf\n- `pages/annual-reports-index__07.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Northern%20Territory%20Fisheries%20Joint%20Authority%20Annual%20Report%202019-20.pdf\n- `pages/annual-reports-index__08.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Northern%20Territory%20Fisheries%20Joint%20Authority%20Annual%20Report%202018-19.pdf\n- `pages/annual-reports-index__09.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Northern%20Territory%20Fisheries%20Joint%20Authority%20Annual%20Report%202017-18.pdf\n- `pages/annual-reports-index__10.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/wa_report_2021-22.pdf\n- `pages/annual-reports-index__11.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/WA%20Report%2020-21.pdf\n- `pages/annual-reports-index__12.html` - 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http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Lobster%20and%20Trochus%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf\n- `pages/strategies-index__21.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-05/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pdf\n- `pages/strategies-index__22.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Coral%20Sea%20Fishery%20%E2%80%93%20Line%20Trawl%20and%20Trap%20Sector%20Harvest%20Strategy.pdf\n- `pages/strategies-index__23.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Eastern%20Tuna%20and%20Billfish%20Fishery%20Management%20Strategy.pdf\n- `pages/strategies-index__24.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-10/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pdf\n- `pages/strategies-index__25.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-06/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pdf\n- `pages/strategies-index__26.html` - pages - http://www.afma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-02/Skipjack%20Tuna%20Harvest%20Strategy.doc\n- `pages/strategies-index__27.html` - 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Acts and Legislation Discovery\n\n**Generated at**: 2026-05-09T21:04:31.151242+00:00\n**Entity ID**: B-002186\n**Jurisdiction**: Commonwealth\n**Portfolio**: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry\n\n> This is an evidence-based discovery list from scraped department material. A mention does not always mean the department administers the legislation; high-confidence and official register links should be reviewed.\n\n## Summary\n\n- Source files scanned: 63\n- Unique legislation references found: 29\n\n| Type | Count |\n|---|---:|\n| Act | 28 |\n| Regulation | 1 |\n\n## Legislation References\n\n### Fisheries Management Act 1991\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 61\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Fisheries+Management+Act+1991\n\n**Sources**:\n- `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n- `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n- `strategies/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pages.jsonl`\n- `strategies/SSJF-20Harvest-20Strategy-202022.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- The State Of\nQueensland In Relation To The Fishery For Northern Demersal And Pelagic Fin Fish In\nThe Gulf Of Carpentaria, 8 February 1995………………………………………………………7\nAnnex B – Arrangement Between The Commonwealth and the State of Queensland,\nunder section 71 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and Section 132 of the\nFisheries Act 1994 of Queensland, in relation to the Gulf of Carpentaria grey mackerel\nfishery, 4 July 2003………………………………………………………………………………..12\nAnnex C – Record of decisions of the Queensland Fisheries Joint Authority 2017…….15\n3\n\n[page 6\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- elevant species be managed by\nthe QFJA under Queensland law.\nThere is a further arrangement between the Commonwealth and the State of\nQueensland, in relation to commercial fishing for grey mackerel in the Gulf of\nCarpentaria (Annex B), under section 71 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and\nsection 132 of the Fisheries Act 1994 of Queensland. The 2003 arrangement\nprovides, among other things, that the commercial fishery for grey mackerel also be\nmanaged by the QFJA under Queensland law.\n3. Report on the status of fisheries managed by the Joi\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- mersal And Pelagic Fin Fish In The\nGulf Of Carpentaria, 8 February 1995\nAN ARRANGEMENT entered into between the Commonwealth of Australia (the\nCommonwealth) of the one part and the State of Queensland (the State) of the other part.\nWhereas –\n(a) Part 5 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 of the Commonwealth (the\nManagement Act), which provides for co-operation with the States and Northern\nTerritory in the management of fisheries, commenced on 3 February 1995 upon the\nceasing to have effect of the Fisheries Act 1952 of the Commonwealth;\n(b) Pa\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- ister for Resources Industries\nin the presence of in the presence of\n10\n\n[page 13]\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the\nadvice of the Federal Executive Council, in pursuance of paragraph subsections 74(1) and\n75(1) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991, hereby approve this instrument.\nDated 7-2-1995\nBill Hayden\nGovernor-General\nBy His Excellency’s command\nDavid Peter Beddal\nMinister for Resources\nI, LENEEN FORDE, the Governor of the State of Queensland, acting by and with the\nadvice of the Executive Council\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- n under my hand this 2 day of February 1995\nLeneen Forde\nGovernor\nBy His Excellency’s command\nEdmund Dennis Casey\nMinister for Primary Industries\n11\n\n[page 14]\nAnnex B - Arrangement between the Commonwealth and\nthe State of Queensland, under section 71 of the Fisheries\nManagement Act 1991 and Section 132 of the Fisheries Act\n1994 of Queensland, in relation to the Gulf of Carpentaria\ngrey mackerel fishery, 4 July 2003\nArrangement between the Commonwealth and the State of Queensland, under section 71 of\nthe Fisheries Management Act 1991 and sect\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 10\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Petroleum+%28Submerged+Lands%29+Act+1967\n\n**Sources**:\n- `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n- `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ies Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Australian fishing zone\nthat lie within the area described in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands)\nAct 1967 under the heading “Area that includes the Adjacent Area in respect of\nQueensland”, west of Longitude 142°31’49’’ East, for all species of the Class\nOsteichthyes and Class Chondrichthyes, except for:\n(a) the following fish taken in the fishery for tuna and tun\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- nd\n(b) includes the taking of incidental catch of finfish by a person fishing for grey\nmackerel under an authority granted under Queensland law;\nIn that part of the area described as ‘The adjacent area in respect of Queensland’\nin Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 that is west of 142°\n31’ 49’’.\nNote The fishery does not include Protected Zone, within the meaning given in\nthe Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, or an area adjacent to the Protected Zone:\nsee section 9 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991.\n5 Ministers may m\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- ies Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Australian fishing zone\nthat lie within the area described in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands)\nAct 1967 under the heading “Area that includes the Adjacent Area in respect of\nQueensland”, west of Longitude 142°31’49’’ East, for all species of the Class\nOsteichthyes and Class Chondrichthyes, except for:\n(a) the following fish taken in the fishery for tuna and tun\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- nd\n(b) includes the taking of incidental catch of finfish by a person fishing for grey\nmackerel under an authority granted under Queensland law;\nIn that part of the area described as ‘The adjacent area in respect of Queensland’\nin Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 that is west of 142°\n31’ 49’’.\nNote The fishery does not include Protected Zone, within the meaning given in\nthe Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, or an area adjacent to the Protected Zone:\nsee section 9 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991.\n5 Ministers may m\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- ies Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Australian fishing zone\nthat lie within the area described in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands)\nAct 1967 under the heading “Area that includes the Adjacent Area in respect of\nQueensland”, west of Longitude 142°31’49’’ East, for all species of the Class\nOsteichthyes and Class Chondrichthyes, except for:\n(a) the following fish taken in the fishery for tuna and tun\n Source: `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 10\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Torres+Strait+Fisheries+Act+1984\n\n**Sources**:\n- `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- rangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section 9 of the Management Act does not extend to or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Australian fishing zone\nthat lie within the area described in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged La\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- law;\nIn that part of the area described as ‘The adjacent area in respect of Queensland’\nin Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 that is west of 142°\n31’ 49’’.\nNote The fishery does not include Protected Zone, within the meaning given in\nthe Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, or an area adjacent to the Protected Zone:\nsee section 9 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991.\n5 Ministers may make agreement\nThe Commonwealth and State Ministers may agree in writing about:\n(a) the amount of fish that may be taken by a person under an autho\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- rangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section 9 of the Management Act does not extend to or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Australian fishing zone\nthat lie within the area described in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged La\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- law;\nIn that part of the area described as ‘The adjacent area in respect of Queensland’\nin Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 that is west of 142°\n31’ 49’’.\nNote The fishery does not include Protected Zone, within the meaning given in\nthe Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, or an area adjacent to the Protected Zone:\nsee section 9 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991.\n5 Ministers may make agreement\nThe Commonwealth and State Ministers may agree in writing about:\n(a) the amount of fish that may be takenby a person under an author\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- rangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section 9 of the Management Act does not extend to or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Australian fishing zone\nthat lie within the area described in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged La\n Source: `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Queensland Fisheries Act 1994\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 7\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Queensland+Fisheries+Act+1994\n\n**Sources**:\n- `pages/annual-reports-index.html`\n- `pages/corporate-plans-index.html`\n- `pages/homepage.html`\n- `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- eviously had responsibility for the management of the Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Finfish Fishery, Line Fishery and Developmental Fin Fish Trawl Fishery in all waters adjacent to Queensland.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nQueensland Fisheries Act 1994\n.\nIn November 2021, the management of these fisheries was transferred to Queensland jurisdiction following agreement between the Commonwealth and State Fisheries Ministers. This means that there are currently no fisheries being under the authority of the QFJA\n Source: `pages/annual-reports-index.html`\n- eviously had responsibility for the management of the Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Finfish Fishery, Line Fishery and Developmental Fin Fish Trawl Fishery in all waters adjacent to Queensland.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nQueensland Fisheries Act 1994\n.\nIn November 2021, the management of these fisheries was transferred to Queensland jurisdiction following agreement between the Commonwealth and State Fisheries Ministers. This means that there are currently no fisheries being under the authority of the QFJA\n Source: `pages/corporate-plans-index.html`\n- eviously had responsibility for the management of the Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Finfish Fishery, Line Fishery and Developmental Fin Fish Trawl Fishery in all waters adjacent to Queensland.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nQueensland Fisheries Act 1994\n.\nIn November 2021, the management of these fisheries was transferred to Queensland jurisdiction following agreement between the Commonwealth and State Fisheries Ministers. This means that there are currently no fisheries being under the authority of the QFJA\n Source: `pages/homepage.html`\n- down of the total catch\nof each QFJA managed species.\n2. Enabling legislation\nSections 61-70 of the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 set out the\nestablishment, functions, administration and reporting requirements for Joint\nAuthorities.\nPart 7 of the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 sets out complementary State legislation\nand other matters relating to the establishment, functions, administration and\nreporting requirements of the Joint Authority and the management of Joint Authority\nfisheries in Queensland.\nThe QFJA is established in the\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- down of the total catch\nof each QFJA managed species.\n2. Enabling legislation\nSections 61-70 of the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 set out the\nestablishment, functions, administration and reporting requirements for Joint\nAuthorities.\nPart 7 of the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 sets out complementary State legislation\nand other matters relating to the establishment, functions, administration and\nreporting requirements of the Joint Authority and the management of Joint Authority\nfisheries in Queensland.\nThe QFJA is established in the\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 6\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Commonwealth+Fisheries+Management+Act+1991\n\n**Sources**:\n- `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- eement. The Queensland\nGovernment is responsible for managing a number of fisheries in the Gulf of\nCarpentaria that take these species. Table 1 provides a breakdown of the total catch\nof each QFJA managed species.\n2. Enabling legislation\nSections 61-70 of the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 set out the\nestablishment, functions, administration and reporting requirements for Joint\nAuthorities.\nPart 7 of the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 sets out complementary State legislation\nand other matters relating to the establishment, functions, administrat\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- eement. The Queensland\nGovernment is responsible for managing a number of fisheries in the Gulf of\nCarpentaria that take these species. Table 1 provides a breakdown of the total catch\nof each QFJA managed species.\n2. Enabling legislation\nSections 61-70 of the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 set out the\nestablishment, functions, administration and reporting requirements for Joint\nAuthorities.\nPart 7 of the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 sets out complementary State legislation\nand other matters relating to the establishment, functions, administrat\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- eement. The Queensland Government is responsible\nfor managing a number of fisheries in the Gulf of Carpentaria that take these species. Table\n1 provides a breakdown of the total catch of each QFJA managed species.\n2. Enabling legislation\nSections 61-70 of the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 set out the\nestablishment, functions, administration and reporting requirements for Joint Authorities.\nPart 7 of the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 sets out complementary State legislation and\nother matters relating to the establishment, functions, administrat\n Source: `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- eement. The Queensland\nGovernment is responsible for managing a number of fisheries in the Gulf of\nCarpentaria that take these species. Table 1 provides a breakdown of the total catch\nof each QFJA managed species.\n2. Enabling legislation\nSections 61-70 of the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 set out the\nestablishment, functions, administration and reporting requirements for Joint\nAuthorities.\nPart 7 of the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994 sets out complementary State legislation\nand other matters relating to the establishment, functions, administrat\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- in fish species as prescribed\nunder the Offshore Constitutional Settlement Agreement. The Queensland\nGovernment is responsible for managing a number of fisheries in the Gulf of\nCarpentaria that take these species.\n2. Enabling legislation\nSections 61-70 of the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 set out the\nestablishment, functions, administration and reporting requirements for Joint\nAuthorities.\nPart 7 of the Queensland FisheriesA ct 1994s ets out complementary State legislation\nand other matters relating to the establishment, functions, administrat\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Fisheries Legislation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 5\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Fisheries+Legislation+%28Consequential+Provisions%29+Act+1991\n\n**Sources**:\n- `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ch provides for co-operation with the States and Northern\nTerritory in the management of fisheries, commenced on 3 February 1995 upon the\nceasing to have effect of the Fisheries Act 1952 of the Commonwealth;\n(b) Paragraph 7(4)(b) of the Fisheries Legislation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991\n(the Consequential Provisions Act) provides that upon the commencement of Part 5 of\nthe Management Act, any Arrangement made with a State of Territory under\nsubsection 12H(1) of (4) of the Fisheries Act 1952 that was in force immediately\nbefore that commencem\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- ch provides for co-operation with the States and Northern\nTerritory in the management of fisheries, commenced on 3 February 1995 upon the\nceasing to have effect of the Fisheries Act 1952 of the Commonwealth;\n(b) Paragraph 7(4)(b) of the Fisheries Legislation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991\n(the Consequential Provisions Act) provides that upon the commencement of Part 5 of\nthe Management Act, any Arrangement made with a State of Territory under\nsubsection 12H(1) of (4) of the Fisheries Act 1952 that was in force immediately\nbefore that commencem\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- ch provides for co-operation with the States and Northern\nTerritory in the management of fisheries, commenced on 3 February 1995 upon the\nceasing to have effect of the Fisheries Act 1952 of the Commonwealth;\n(b) Paragraph 7(4)(b) of the Fisheries Legislation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991\n(the Consequential Provisions Act) provides that upon the commencement of Part 5 of\nthe Management Act, any Arrangement made with a State of Territory under\nsubsection 12H(1) of (4) of the Fisheries Act 1952 that was in force immediately\nbefore that commencem\n Source: `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- ch provides for co-operation with the States and Northern\nTerritory in the management of fisheries, commenced on 3 February 1995 upon the\nceasing to have effect of the Fisheries Act 1952 of the Commonwealth;\n(b) Paragraph 7(4)(b) of the Fisheries Legislation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991\n(the Consequential Provisions Act) provides that upon the commencement of Part 5 of\nthe Management Act, any Arrangement made with a State of Territory under\nsubsection 12H(1) of (4) of the Fisheries Act 1952 that was in force immediately\nbefore that commencem\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- chp rovides for co-operation with the States andN orthern\nTerritory in the management of fisheries, commenced on 3 February 1995 upon the\nceasing to have effect of the Fisheries Act 1952 of the Commonwealth;\n(b) Paragraph 7(4)(b) of the Fisheries Legislation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991\n(the Consequential Provisions Act) provides that upon the commencement of Part 5 of\nthe Management Act, any Arrangement made with a State of Territory under\nsubsection 12H(1) of (4) of the Fisheries Act 1952 that was in force immediately\nbefore that commencem\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 5\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Torres+Strait+Fishery+Act+1984\n\n**Sources**:\n- `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ch Arrangement applies in accordance\nwith the law of the State.\n3. The fishery to which this Arrangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section 9 of the Management Act does not extend to or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Austra\n Source: `annual-reports/2017-18.pages.jsonl`\n- ch Arrangement applies in accordance\nwith the law of the State.\n3. The fishery to which this Arrangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section 9 of the Management Act does not extend to or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Austra\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- ch Arrangement applies in accordance\nwith the law of the State.\n3. The fishery to which this Arrangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section 9 of the Management Act does not extend to or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Austra\n Source: `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- ch Arrangement applies in accordance\nwith the law of the State.\n3. The fishery to which this Arrangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section 9 of the Management Act does not extend to or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters and waters of the Austra\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- hichA rrangement applies in accordance\nwith the law of the State.\n3 The fishery to which this Arrangement applies is the fishery (which in accordance\nwith Section9 oft he ManagementA ct doesn ot extendt o or in relation to the\nProtected Zone as defined in the Torres Strait Fishery Act 1984 or to the area adjacent\nto the Protected Zone to which area the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies by\nvirtue of a Proclamation under subsections 15(1) or (2) of that Act) in the waters\nrelevant to the State, being coastal waters andw aters oft he Austra\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Commonwealth) Fisheries Act 1994\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 4\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Commonwealth%29+Fisheries+Act+1994\n\n**Sources**:\n- `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- [page 1]\nQUEENSLAND\nFISHERIES JOINT\nAUTHORITY\nREPORT FOR THE PERIOD\n1 JULY 2018 TO 30 JUNE 2019\n\n[page 2]\n\n[page 3]\nFisheries Management Act 1991\n(Commonwealth)\nFisheries Act 1994\n(Queensland)\nQUEENSLAND FISHERIES JOINT AUTHORITY\nREPORT FOR THE PERIOD\n1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019\nPresented to the Commonwealth Parliament pursuant to section 70 of the Fisheries\nManagement Act 1991.\nPresented to the Queensland Parliament pursuant to sectio\n Source: `annual-reports/2018-19.pages.jsonl`\n- [page 1]\nQUEENSLAND\nFISHERIES JOINT\nAUTHORITY\nREPORT FOR THE PERIOD\n1 JULY 2019 TO 30 JUNE 2020\n\n[page 2]\nFisheries Management Act 1991\n(Commonwealth)\nFisheries Act 1994\n(Queensland)\nQUEENSLAND FISHERIES JOINT AUTHORITY\nREPORT FOR THE PERIOD\n1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020\nPresented to the Commonwealth Parliament pursuant to section 70 of the Fisheries\nManagement Act 1991.\nPresented to the Queensland Parliament pursuant to sectio\n Source: `annual-reports/2019-20.pages.jsonl`\n- [page 1]\nQUEENSLAND\nFISHERIES JOINT\nAUTHORITY\nREPORT FOR THE PERIOD\n1 JULY 2020 TO 30 June 2021\n\n[page 2]\nFisheries Management Act 1991\n(Commonwealth)\nFisheries Act 1994\n(Queensland)\nQUEENSLAND FISHERIES JOINT AUTHORITY\nREPORT FOR THE PERIOD\n1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021\nPresented to the Commonwealth Parliament pursuant to section 70 of the Fisheries\nManagement Act 1991.\nPresented to the Queensland Parliament pursuant to sectio\n Source: `annual-reports/2020-21.pages.jsonl`\n- [page 1]\nQUEENSLAND\nFISHERIES JOINT\nAUTHORITY\nREPORT FOR THE PERIOD\n1 JULY 2021 TO 30 June 2022\n\n[page 2]\nFisheries Management Act 1991\n(Commonwealth)\nFisheries Act 1994\n(Queensland)\nQUEENSLAND FISHERIES JOINT AUTHORITY\nREPORT FOR THE PERIOD\n1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022\nPresented to the Commonwealth Parliament pursuant to section 70 of the Fisheries\nManagement Act 1991.\nPresented to the Queensland Parliament pursuant to sectio\n Source: `annual-reports/2021-22.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 3\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Environment+Protection+and+Biodiversity+Conservation+Act+1999\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Aquarium-20Sector-20Harvest-20Strategy-20Fra.pages.jsonl`\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n- `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- mmediately to cease overfishing\nEconomic\n• Maximise net economic returns to the Australian community from management of\nAustralian fisheries- always in the context of maintaining commercial fish stocks at\nsustainable levels\nEcosystem\n• Are consistent with the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and\nthe Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries (2nd Edition)\n3.3 Governance and reporting\nAFMA completes an annual trigger report which provides an overview of catch and effort across all\nsectors in the CSF. This is where the catc\n Source: `strategies/Coral-20Sea-20Fishery-20-E2-80-93-20Aquarium-20Sector-20Harvest-20Strategy-20Fra.pages.jsonl`\n- ory species or cetaceans, nor adversely affect the\nsurvival or recovery in nature of listed threatened species. The TSSC\nassessment methodology is described here.\n• Assessments of environmental performance of fisheries under the EPBC\nAct 1999. Part 13A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity\nConservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) regulates: i) import and export of\nspecimens protected under the Convention on International Trade in\nEndangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); ii) exports of\nAustralian native specimens; and iii) imports of live specimens.\nThe EPBC Act 1\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n- developed in 2010. The\nobjective of the work plans was to develop strategies that will:\n• Respond to high ecological risks assessed through AFMA’s Ecological Risk Assessment\nfor the Effects of Fishing (ERA);\n• Avoid interactions with species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity\nConservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act);\n• Reduce discarding of target species to as close to zero as practically possible; and\n• Minimise overall bycatch in the fishery over the long-term.\nThe work plans focus on developing management measures to reduce and monitor interactions\nwith hig\n Source: `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 3\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Environmental+Protection+and+Biodiversity+Conservation+Act+1999\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- arks Australia website\nwww.parksaustralia.gov.au. Output controls include catch limits and minimum size limits (MSL).\nWildlife Trade Operation (WTO) approval requirements also apply to the CSF, including the sea\ncucumber sector, through the application of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity\nConservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). Further information about WTO requirements in the CSF can\nbe viewed on the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)\nwebsite.\nWhile not included as part of the performance measures or decision rules to promote flexib\n Source: `strategies/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n- y and cost recovery.\nIt also requires that AFMA have regard to: preventing over-exploitation of resources;\noptimal utilisation; commercial, recreational and indigenous interests; international\nagreements and the conservation of whale species.\nIn addition, the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBCA\n1999) requires that AFMAs fisheries not adversely impact the conservation status of\nprotected species or the survival or recovery of threatened species and take all reasonable\nsteps to ensure EPBC listed species are not killed or injured as a result of\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n- gislation\nIn managing Commonwealth fisheries, AFMA must pursue (or have regard to) objectives\nand requirements outlined in three key pieces of legislation:\n1. The Fisheries Administration Act 1991 (FAA 1991)\n2. The Fisheries Management Act 1991 (FMA 1991).\n3. The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBCA\n1999).\nOther non-fisheries specific Commonwealth legislation also influences how AFMA\nconducts its business but is not covered further here.\nThe FAA 1991 served to establish AFMA and outlines AFMAs functions and\nresponsibilities. The FMA 1991 requires\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Fisheries Administration Act 1991\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 3\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Fisheries+Administration+Act+1991\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ERAEF Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing\nERM Ecological Risk Management\neSAFE enhanced Sustainability Analysis for Fishing Effects\nESD Ecologically Sustainable Development\nETBF Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery\nF Fishing Mortality\nFAA 1991 Fisheries Administration Act 1991\nFAP Fisheries Administration Paper\nF Minimum unsustainable instantaneous fishing mortality rate that, in\ncrash\ntheory, will lead to population extinction in the long term\nFIS Fishery Independent Survey\nF Fishing mortality limit reference point\nLIM\nFMA 1991 Fi\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n- he ETBF FMS is provided in Sections 1.2 and 1.3 below.\n\n[page 20]\n1.2 Legislation and policy\n1.2.1 Legislation\nIn managing Commonwealth fisheries, AFMA must pursue (or have regard to) objectives\nand requirements outlined in three key pieces of legislation:\n1. The Fisheries Administration Act 1991 (FAA 1991)\n2. The Fisheries Management Act 1991 (FMA 1991).\n3. The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBCA\n1999).\nOther non-fisheries specific Commonwealth legislation also influences how AFMA\nconducts its business but is not co\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n- ission). The Chief Executive Officer of AFMA is also a\ncommissioner and is responsible for assisting the Commission, including giving effect to its\ndecisions. The AFMA Commission is subject to limited government policy direction as\nstated in section 91 of the Fisheries Administration Act 1991. The Minister for Agriculture\nand Water Resources is the approving authority for all fishery management plans\ndetermined by AFMA. RAGs provide scientific advice on management options and\nstrategies to AFMA managers, to the MAC and to the Commission. MACs prov\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Northern Territory Fisheries Act 1988\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 3\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Northern+Territory+Fisheries+Act+1988\n\n**Sources**:\n- `pages/annual-reports-index.html`\n- `pages/corporate-plans-index.html`\n- `pages/homepage.html`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ty for the management of the following fisheries in all waters adjacent to the Northern Territory.\nTimor Reef Fishery.\nDemersal Fishery.\nFinfish Trawl Fishery.\nOffshore Net and Line Fishery.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nNorthern Territory Fisheries Act 1988\n.\nThe relevant Offshore Constitutional Settlement agreements for these fisheries are the:\nArrangement Between the Commonwealth and NT for the Demersal and Timor Reef Fishery\n.\nArrangement Between the Commonwealth and NT for the Northern Shark Fishery\n.\nIn 202\n Source: `pages/annual-reports-index.html`\n- ty for the management of the following fisheries in all waters adjacent to the Northern Territory.\nTimor Reef Fishery.\nDemersal Fishery.\nFinfish Trawl Fishery.\nOffshore Net and Line Fishery.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nNorthern Territory Fisheries Act 1988\n.\nThe relevant Offshore Constitutional Settlement agreements for these fisheries are the:\nArrangement Between the Commonwealth and NT for the Demersal and Timor Reef Fishery\n.\nArrangement Between the Commonwealth and NT for the Northern Shark Fishery\n.\nIn 202\n Source: `pages/corporate-plans-index.html`\n- ty for the management of the following fisheries in all waters adjacent to the Northern Territory.\nTimor Reef Fishery.\nDemersal Fishery.\nFinfish Trawl Fishery.\nOffshore Net and Line Fishery.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nNorthern Territory Fisheries Act 1988\n.\nThe relevant Offshore Constitutional Settlement agreements for these fisheries are the:\nArrangement Between the Commonwealth and NT for the Demersal and Timor Reef Fishery\n.\nArrangement Between the Commonwealth and NT for the Northern Shark Fishery\n.\nIn 202\n Source: `pages/homepage.html`\n\n### Western Australian Fish Resources Management Act 1994\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: high\n**Mentions**: 3\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Western+Australian+Fish+Resources+Management+Act+1994\n\n**Sources**:\n- `pages/annual-reports-index.html`\n- `pages/corporate-plans-index.html`\n- `pages/homepage.html`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ority\nThe Western Australian Fisheries Joint Authority (WAFJA) has responsibility for the management of the following fishery in waters adjacent to Western Australia.\nNorthern Shark Fishery.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nWestern Australian Fish Resources Management Act 1994\n.\nOn 6 August 2018, the OCS between WA and the Commonwealth was amended to provide for the transition of the Joint Authority Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery to sole WA jurisdiction, which commenced 1 December 2018.\nThe relevant\n Source: `pages/annual-reports-index.html`\n- ority\nThe Western Australian Fisheries Joint Authority (WAFJA) has responsibility for the management of the following fishery in waters adjacent to Western Australia.\nNorthern Shark Fishery.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nWestern Australian Fish Resources Management Act 1994\n.\nOn 6 August 2018, the OCS between WA and the Commonwealth was amended to provide for the transition of the Joint Authority Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery to sole WA jurisdiction, which commenced 1 December 2018.\nThe relevant\n Source: `pages/corporate-plans-index.html`\n- ority\nThe Western Australian Fisheries Joint Authority (WAFJA) has responsibility for the management of the following fishery in waters adjacent to Western Australia.\nNorthern Shark Fishery.\nThese fisheries are managed in accordance with the provisions of the\nWestern Australian Fish Resources Management Act 1994\n.\nOn 6 August 2018, the OCS between WA and the Commonwealth was amended to provide for the transition of the Joint Authority Southern Demersal Gillnet and Demersal Longline Managed Fishery to sole WA jurisdiction, which commenced 1 December 2018.\nThe relevant\n Source: `pages/homepage.html`\n\n### Fisheries Amendment Act 1994\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 2\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Fisheries+Amendment+Act+1994\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- s, be construed as including a power exercisable in the\nlike manner and subject to the like conditions (if any) to repeal any such\ninstrument;\n(j) subsection SH(2) of the Fisheries Act I905 of the State (the State Act) will on the\ncoming into operation of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1994 of the State empower\nthe State to terminate an arrangement as provided for by the Management Act;\n(k) subsection 71( 1) of the Management Act provides that the Commonwealth may\nmake an arrangement with a State or States represented on a Joint Authority that\nt\n Source: `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n- es that an arrangement under, inter\nalia, subsection 71 (1) is to be made by an instrument approved by the Governor-\nGeneral and the Governor or Governors of the State or States concerned;\nsubsection 8H(1) of the State Act will on the coming into force of the Fisheries\nAmendment Act 1994 of the State empower the State to make an arrangement\nreferred to in, inter alia, subsection 71(1) of the Management Act for the\nmanagement of a particular fishery;\n(n) both the Commonwealth and the State are desirous of exercising their powers to\nmake a hrth\n Source: `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Part IVA of the Fisheries Act 1952\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 2\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Part+IVA+of+the+Fisheries+Act+1952\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ct I952 of the Commonwealth;\nby subsection 7(3) of the Fisheries Legslation (Consequential Provisions) Act\n1991 (the Consequential Provisions Act) of the Commonwealth as amended by\nsection 24 of the Primary Industries and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 1993\nPart IVA of the Fisheries Act 1952, unless sooner repealed, ceases to have effect\nat the end of the period of 3 years beginning on 3 February 1992, the day on which\nsection 7 of the Consequential Provisions Act commenced;\nparagraph 7(4)(a) of the Consequential Provisions Act provides that upon\n Source: `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n- ents No. GN 4, I February 11995\nwas in force immediately before that commencement continues in force as if it had\nbeen made under Part 5 of the Management Act;\n(g) the Arrangements referred to in paragraph (e) of this Arrangement were made\nunder Division 3 of Part IVA of the Fisheries Act 1952;\n(h) subsection 75(1) of the Management Act provides that an Arrangement under\nDivision 3 of Part 5 of the Management Act may be terminated by instrument\napproved by the Governor-General and the Governor or Governors of the State or\nStates concerned;\n(i) subs\n Source: `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management EM Electronic Monitoring EMS Environmental Management System EPBC Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1991\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Ecosystem+Based+Fisheries+Management+EM+Electronic+Monitoring+EMS+Environmental+Management+System+EPBC+Environmental+Protection+and+Biodiversity+Conservation+Act+1991\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- base Sustainability Analysis for Fishing Effects\nCDR Catch Disposal Record\nCEO Chief Executive Officer\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nCSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation\nDAWE Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment\nEBFM Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management\nEM Electronic Monitoring\nEMS Environmental Management System\nEPBC Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1991\n1999\nERA Ecological Risk Assessment\nERAEF Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing\nERM Ecological Risk Management\neSAFE enhanced Sustainability Analysis for Fishing Effects\nESD Ecologically Sustainable Development\nETBF Eastern Tuna and Billfish F\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n### FMA), the Fisheries Administration Act 1991\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=FMA%29%2C+the+Fisheries+Administration+Act+1991\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/SSJF-20Harvest-20Strategy-202022.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- heries Management Authority (AFMA) is responsible for efficient management and\nsustainable use of Commonwealth fisheries on behalf of the Australian community. AFMA operates under a\nrange of legislative instruments including the Fisheries Management Act 1991 (FMA), the Fisheries\nAdministration Act 1991 (FAA) and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n(EPBC Act). Their implementation is supported by fisheries policies and guidelines, including the\nCommonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy 2018 (Harvest Strategy Policy).\nThe Ha\n Source: `strategies/SSJF-20Harvest-20Strategy-202022.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Fisheries Legslation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Fisheries+Legslation+%28Consequential+Provisions%29+Act+1991\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- tion with the States and Northern Territory in the management of\nfisheries, commences upon the repeal or the ceasing to have effect (as the case may\nbe) of Part IVA of the Fisheries Act I952 of the Commonwealth;\nby subsection 7(3) of the Fisheries Legslation (Consequential Provisions) Act\n1991 (the Consequential Provisions Act) of the Commonwealth as amended by\nsection 24 of the Primary Industries and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 1993\nPart IVA of the Fisheries Act 1952, unless sooner repealed, ceases to have effect\nat the end of the period of 3\n Source: `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Fisheries Management Regulations 2019\n\n**Type**: Regulation\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Fisheries+Management+Regulations+2019\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- re of the JBG fishery was introduced in 2021 as a key decision rule for the redleg banana\nprawn fishery with a first season closure also in place in JBG from 2007-2010 inclusive.\n4.4.4 Governance\nThe NPF is managed under the Fisheries Management Act 1991, the Fisheries Management Regulations\n2019 and the Northern Prawn Fishery Management Plan 1995. Seasons and closures in the fishery are\nimplemented through Determinations and Directions made under the Fisheries Management Act 1991.\nTwo key committees provide advice to AFMA Management and the AFMA Comm\n Source: `strategies/NPF-Harvest-Strategy-2024-Sept24.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Sustainable Management of Fisheries, Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Canberra Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: medium\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Sustainable+Management+of+Fisheries%2C+Department+of+the+Environment+and+Water+Resources%2C+Canberra+Environmental+Protection+and+Biodiversity+Conservation+Act+1999\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- stralia (2009) Chondrichtyan guide for fisheries managers: A\npractical guide to mitigating chondrichtyan bycatch, Bureau of Rural Science and\nAustralian Fisheries Management Authority, Canberra\nCommonwealth of Australia (2007), Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable\nManagement of Fisheries, Department of the Environment and Water Resources,\nCanberra\nEnvironmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Commonwealth)\nETBF Fishery Management Plan 2010 (Commonwealth)\nFisheries Management Act 1991 (Commonwealth)\nFood and Agriculture Organisation (1999), International Plan of Action for Conservation\nand Management of Sharks, Rome\nHobday et al (2007) Ecological\n Source: `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Acts Interpretation Act 1901\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 2\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Acts+Interpretation+Act+1901\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n- `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- Western Australia” in Schedule 2 to the\nRepealed Act is now read to be a reference to the “Scheduled area for Western Australia” in\nSchedule 1, item 5 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006, by the\napplication of paragraph 10(c) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (“the Interpretation Act”).\n(d) Subclauses 2(b) and 2(e) of the Arrangement provide, inter alia, that the Great Australian Bight\nTrawl Fishery and the Joint Authority Southern Demersal Gillnet and Longline Fishery are excluded\nfrom being managed by Western Au\n Source: `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n- NORTHERN SHARK\nFISHERY IN WATERS EAST OF KOOLAN ISLAND\nAn ARRANGEMENT entered into between the Commonwealth of Australia (the\nCommonwealth) of the one part and the State of Western Australia (the State) of the\nother part.\nWHEREAS-\n(a) paragraph 4(l)(a) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 of the Commonwealth\nprovides that where an Act is enacted on or after the date of commencement of this\nsection that is not to come into operation immediately upon its enactment, is\nexpressed to confer power, inter alia, to make an instrument of a legislative\n Source: `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n### DCCEEW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water EPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=DCCEEW+Department+of+Climate+Change%2C+Energy%2C+the+Environment+and+Water+EPBC+Act+Environment+Protection+and+Biodiversity+Conservation+Act+1999\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- Cucumber Sector Harvest Strategy\nGlossary\nTerm Description\nAFMA Australian Fisheries Management Authority\nCDR Catch Disposal Record\nCHSP Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nCSF Coral Sea Fishery\nCSMP Coral Sea Marine Park\nDCCEEW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water\nEPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\nGVP Gross value of production\nL50 Length at first maturity\nLRP Limit Reference Point\nMSL Minimum size limit\nQSCF Queensland Sea Cucumber Fishery\nRZS Rotational Zone Strategy\nSCHS Sea Cucumber Harvest Strategy\nTAC Total Allowable Catch\nTSBDMF Torres Strait Bec\n Source: `strategies/CSF-Sea-Cucumber-Sector-Harvest-Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n### DCCEEW Departments of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water EPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=DCCEEW+Departments+of+Climate+Change%2C+Energy%2C+the+Environment+and+Water+EPBC+Act+Environment+Protection+and+Biodiversity+Conservation+Act+1999\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- f 20\n\n[page 3]\nHarvest Strategy for the Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery and North West Slope Trawl Fishery\nGlossary\nAcronym Term\nABARES Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Science\nAFZ Australian Fishing Zone\nCPUE Catch per unit effort\nDCCEEW Departments of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water\nEPBC Act Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\nERA Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing\nFRDC Fisheries Research and Development Corporation\nGABTS Great Australian Bight Sector\nGVP Gross value of production\nHSF Harvest Strategy Framework\nHSP Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy 2\n Source: `strategies/Western-Fisheries-Harvest-Strategy-2023.pages.jsonl`\n\n### FAA) and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=FAA%29+and+the+Environment+Protection+and+Biodiversity+Conservation+Act+1999\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/SSJF-20Harvest-20Strategy-202022.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ible for efficient management and\nsustainable use of Commonwealth fisheries on behalf of the Australian community. AFMA operates under a\nrange of legislative instruments including the Fisheries Management Act 1991 (FMA), the Fisheries\nAdministration Act 1991 (FAA) and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999\n(EPBC Act). Their implementation is supported by fisheries policies and guidelines, including the\nCommonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy 2018 (Harvest Strategy Policy).\nThe Harvest Strategy Policy and the Guidelines for the Implementation of the Commo\n Source: `strategies/SSJF-20Harvest-20Strategy-202022.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Fish Resource Management Act 1994\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Fish+Resource+Management+Act+1994\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- s\non behalf of the Commonwealth under\nthe Fisheries Management Act 1991\nin the presence of\n__________________________ Date: 30 July 2018\nThe Hon. David Kelly\nMinister for Water; Fisheries; Forestry; Innovation and ICT;\nScience on behalf of the State\nunder the Fish Resource Management Act 1994\nin the presence of\n______________________________ Date: 14 July 2018\nGovernment Notices Gazette C2018G00618 06/08/2018\n Source: `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Fish Resources Management Act 1994\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Fish+Resources+Management+Act+1994\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- er alia, that the Great Australian Bight\nTrawl Fishery and the Joint Authority Southern Demersal Gillnet and Longline Fishery are excluded\nfrom being managed by Western Australia in accordance with the law of Western Australia.\n(e) Item 7 of Schedule 3 to the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (WA) (“the State Act”) provides\nthat an arrangement made under section 8H of the State Repealed Act and in force immediately\nGovernment Notices Gazette C2018G00618 06/08/2018\n\n[page 2]\nbefore the commencement of the State Act continues in force, on commenceme\n Source: `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Offshore+Petroleum+and+Greenhouse+Gas+Storage+Act+2006\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- e reference in clause 2 of the Arrangement to\nthe “Area that includes the Adjacent Area in respect of Western Australia” in Schedule 2 to the\nRepealed Act is now read to be a reference to the “Scheduled area for Western Australia” in\nSchedule 1, item 5 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006, by the\napplication of paragraph 10(c) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (“the Interpretation Act”).\n(d) Subclauses 2(b) and 2(e) of the Arrangement provide, inter alia, that the Great Australian Bight\nTrawl Fishery and the Joint Authority Southern Demersal\n Source: `other-pdfs/2018-Amendment-General-Arrangement-and-termination-of-JADGL-C2018G00618.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Primary Industries and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 1993\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Primary+Industries+and+Energy+Legislation+Amendment+Act+1993\n\n**Sources**:\n- `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ve effect (as the case may\nbe) of Part IVA of the Fisheries Act I952 of the Commonwealth;\nby subsection 7(3) of the Fisheries Legslation (Consequential Provisions) Act\n1991 (the Consequential Provisions Act) of the Commonwealth as amended by\nsection 24 of the Primary Industries and Energy Legislation Amendment Act 1993\nPart IVA of the Fisheries Act 1952, unless sooner repealed, ceases to have effect\nat the end of the period of 3 years beginning on 3 February 1992, the day on which\nsection 7 of the Consequential Provisions Act commenced;\nparagraph 7(4)(a) of the Consequentia\n Source: `other-pdfs/Arrangement-Cth-and-WA-Northern-Shark-Fishery-in-Waters-East-of-Koolan-Island-19.pages.jsonl`\n\n### Report Quarterly to EPBC Act 1999\n\n**Type**: Act\n**Confidence**: low\n**Mentions**: 1\n**Register search**: https://www.legislation.gov.au/search?query=Report+Quarterly+to+EPBC+Act+1999\n\n**Sources**:\n- `strategies/Eastern-20Tuna-20and-20Billfish-20Fishery-20Management-20Strategy.pages.jsonl`\n\n**Evidence contexts**:\n- ements\n2018\nlisted here)\n1. Status reporting against Wildlife Trade Operation 1. Report Annually in\n(WTO) accreditation conditions and FMS Annual\nrecommendations. Requirements listed here. Performance Report\n2. MOU with Department of Agriculture, Water and 2. Report Quarterly to\nEPBC Act 1999\nthe Environment: AFMA must report quarterly to DAWE and publish\nDAWE on interaction rates for each of the EPBC online\nlisted species and High Risk Species under the\nERA. 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