River and inshore beam trawl fishery

Fishery symbols

• T5: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 1)
• T6: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 2)
• T7: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 3)
• T8: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 4)
• T9: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 5)

Management

• No harvest strategy
• The trawl fishery working group provides operational advice on the management of this fishery.

Operating area

• Area of the T5 trawl fishery
• Area of the T6 trawl fishery
• Area of the T7 trawl fishery
• Area of the T8 trawl fishery
• Area of the T9 trawl fishery

Quota or effort units

This fishery has no effort quotas or total allowable commercial catch (TACC) limits in place.

Operators do not need to hold effort units to access this fishery.

Licences

To operate in the fishery, you need a:

• primary commercial fishing licence with with the relevant fishery symbol
• commercial fisher licence for the person in charge of fishing activities.

Reporting and monitoring

Commercial fishers must:

• report trip and catch notices
• pre-trip notice
• amending notice
• emergency notice
• complete daily logbooks
• keep sale dockets
• have vessel tracking on their boats
• comply with state marine park and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park zoning rules.

Closures

• There are closures that apply to beam trawl.

Equipment

• Bait and cast nets are permitted in this fishery.
• Bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) are mandatory for all beam trawls.
• Turtle excluder devices (TEDs) are mandatory for some beam trawl nets.

Target species

• Endeavour prawns
• Banana prawns
• Bay prawns