Article 3
Permitted fishing gear in specific fisheries 1. The fishery for Dissostichus eleginoides in FAO statistical sub-area 48.3 shall be conducted by vessels using longlines and pots only. 2. The fishery for Dissostichus eleginoides in FAO statistical division 58.5.2 shall be conducted by vessels using trawls or longlines only. 3. The fishery for Champsocephalus gunnari in FAO statistical sub-area 48.3 shall be conducted by vessels using trawls only. The use of bottom trawls in the directed fishery for Champsocephalus gunnari in that sub-area is prohibited. 4. The fishery for Champsocephalus gunnari in FAO statistical sub-area 58.5.2 shall be conducted by vessels using trawls only. 5. For the purpose of the fishery referred to in paragraph 4, the area open to the fishery is defined as that portion of FAO statistical division 58.5.2 that lies within the area enclosed by a line: (a) starting at the point where the meridian of longitude 72° 15' E intersects the Australia-France Maritime Delimitation Agreement Boundary then south along the meridian to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 53° 25' S; (b) then east along that parallel to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 74° E; (c) then northeasterly along the geodesic to the intersection of the parallel of latitude 52°40' S and the meridian of longitude 76° E; (d) then north along the meridian to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 52° S; (e) then northwesterly along the geodesic to the intersection of the parallel of latitude 51o S with the meridian of longitude 74°30' E; and (f) then southwesterly along the geodesic to the point of commencement. 6. The fishery for crab in FAO statistical sub-area 48.3 shall be conducted by vessels using pots only.