Abalone Fishery Licence: Central, Southern and Western Zone - South Australia

Description

You will need this licence if you intend to undertake commercial fishing for abalone in South Australia. It authorises you to take Greenlip and Blacklip Abalone.

You will be authorised under this licence to take abalone from either:

  • the Southern Zone Abalone Fishery
  • the Central Zone Abalone Fishery
  • the Western Zone Abalone Fishery.

No new licences for commercial abalone fishing are being issued. Licences are only available by transfer from an existing licence holder.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

To hold a charter boat fishery licence, you will need to:

  • be at least 15 years of age
  • be a fit and proper person to hold a licence in respect of the abalone fishery
  • if the transferee is a company, each director of the company must be a fit and proper person to be a director of a company that holds a licence in respect of the abalone fishery.

Your application for a commercial abalone fishery licence by transfer may only be approved if:

  • relevant fees have been paid in full
  • the licence to be transferred has not been suspended
  • no legal proceedings in relation to the licence or fishery are underway or likely to be commenced against the holder of the licence.

If a boat registered for use under the abalone licence is also used under a licence or other entitlement to take fish:

  • that entitlement must either be transferred together with the licence or surrendered before transfer, or
  • transfer of the licence separately from the entitlement must not be likely to result in exploitative fishing activities, and the body that granted the entitlement must agree with the separate transfer of the licence.

Duration

Licences are valid for the period of the applicable management plan. The current management plan will cease on 30 June 2022, at which point current licences will expire.

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Amount Description
Apply Application All $17317.00

Central Zone Abalone Fishery base licence fee
Apply Application All $693.00

Central Zone Abalone Fishery additional abalone unit fee
Apply Application All $13491.00 Western Zone Abalone Fishery base licence fee
Apply Application All $513.00

Western Zone Abalone Fishery additional abalone unit fee
Apply Application All $16495.00

Southern Zone Abalone Fishery base licence fee
Apply Application All $297.00

Southern Zone Abalone Fishery additional abalone unit fee

Transfer

Licences are transferable. You may only obtain a licence through purchase and transfer from the licence holder to you.

Additional information

You will need to register all boats you will use for commercial abalone fishing. You must not use more than one registered boat at any one time.

You will need to ensure a registered boat used in commercial abalone fishing is always in the charge of a registered boat master who is endorsed on the licence. A maximum of three registered masters are allowed to be endorsed on a licence.

An individual catch quota system applies in each of the Central, Southern and Western Zones. Licence holders may transfer their quota entitlements to another licence holder in the same zone, temporarily or permanently.

Administering agency

Department of Primary Industries and Regions

Fisheries and Aquaculture Division

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.

Please use these contact details for help or more information:

Fisheries Licensing Team

Fisheries and Aquaculture Division

Department of Primary Industries and Regions
Operating address: 2 Harma Avenue
West Beach, South Australia 5024
Mailing address: PO BOX 120
West Beach, South Australia 5024
Phone: 08 8204 1370
Fax: 08 8204 1388
Email: pirsa.fisherieslicensing@sa.gov.au