At its out-of-session meeting on 29 May 2024 the Protected Zone Joint Authority (PZJA) agreed that the Torres Strait Finfish Fishery Spanish mackerel TAC will be 77 tonnes and the coral trout TAC will be 123 tonnes for the 2024-25 fishing season, which commences on 1 July 2024. 

The TSPF Handbook 2016 has been updated this year and renamed the TSPF Management Arrangements Booklet (MAB), to reflect changes to the fishery harvest strategy as well as the list of allowable bycatch reduction devices. Further updates are also included:

A review of the TSPF harvest strategy was recently completed with the revised harvest strategy now in effect following endorsement by the PZJA in June 2024. The key changes to the TSPF harvest strategy implemented the following main changes:

In line with the Torres Strait Fisheries (Quotas for Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar)) Management Plan 2018, the Protected Zone Joint Authority (PZJA) Standing Committee has appointed a team of independent consultants to conduct a review of the future arrangements of the Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar) quota allocation to Traditional Inhabitants from 16 island communities as well as the Northern Peninsular Area of the Torres Strait.
 

AFMA on behalf of the Protected Zone Joint Authority (PZJA) Hand Collectables Resource Assessment Group (HCRAG) and Hand Collectables Working Group (HCWG) is seeking your views on potential black teatfish total allowable catch (TAC) — if not caught — carryover to the next fishing season.

Independent consultants engaged by the Protected Zone Joint Authority (PZJA) Standing Committee have begun meeting with Torres Strait Island and Northern Peninsular Area (NPA) communities to gain their views about future arrangements for the Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar) quota allocation to the Traditional Inhabitant Boat (TIB) sector.

The Protected Zone Joint Authority (PZJA) is notifying commercial fishers that the Torres Strait Tropical Rock Lobster (Kaiar) fishery closed on Monday, 30 September 2024.