Victorian Numbered Regulations

FISHERIES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2017 (SR NO 10 OF 2017) - REG 7

For regulation 149 of the Principal Regulations substitute —

        "     149     Use of certain commercial fishing equipment prohibited in certain places

    (1)     The licence holder must not use commercial fishing equipment—

        (a)     in any area shown hatched on the maps in Schedule 23; or

        (b)     in or on the waters of any lagoon (including Victoria Lagoon), backwater or watercourse connected with McLennan Straits.

    (2)     Despite subregulation (1) the licence holder may—

        (a)     use a seine net not exceeding 366 metres in length from the
shore of Rigby Island; or

        (b)     use not more than 2 sandworm pumps within 400 metres of the channels or cuts in the most northern bank of the Mitchell River near Eagle Point which join the river and Jones Bay.

    (3)     The licence holder must not use any mesh net or stake net within 100 metres of any part of the low water mark between Shaving Point at Metung and 50 metres west of the mouth of Chinaman's Creek at Bancroft Bay."     .