Fish Resources Management Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1997 (WA)

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Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1997.

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT REGULATIONS

(No. 2) 1997

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Fish Resources Management

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Commencement

2.      These regulations come into operation on 4 July 1997.

Principal regulations

3.      In these regulations the Fish Resources Management Regulations 1995*

are referred to as the principal regulations,

[* Published in Gazette 29 September 1995, pp. 4503-635.

For amendments to 22 June 1997 see 1996 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 88, and Gazette 27 March 1997.]

Regulation 20 amended

4.     Regulation 20 (2) of the principal regulations is amended by deleting

item 10 of the Table to that subregulation and substituting the following

item -

10. Snapper, Pink, other than -

pink snapper to which the bag limit specified under

(a)	ground); and regulation 30B applies (Perth pink snapper breeding
(b)	pink snapper to which the bag limit specified under

Shark Bay western gulf). regulation 30E applies (Shark Bay eastern gulf and

Division 4B of Part 4 inserted

5. After Division 4A of Part 4 of the principal regulations the following

Division is inserted -

Division 4B - Bag limits for Shark Bay

Application of Division

30C. This Division does not apply to bait fish of the family Clupeidae

or Engraulidae.

Interpretation

30D. In this Division -

"eastern gulf land area" means the land adjacent to the waters of the Shark Bay eastern gulf;

"waters of the Shark Bay eastern gull" means the waters of Shark Bay south and east of a line commencing at the high water mark of the northernmost point of Cape Peron, from there due north to the intersection with a line drawn due east from the high water mark of the southernmost point of Cape St CricQ and from there due east to the mainland, but not including the waters of Denham Sound nor the

Freycinet Estuary;

"waters of the Shark Bay western gulf" means the waters of

water mark of the northernmost point of Cape Inscription, Freycinet Estuary) south of a line commencing at the high	Shark Bay (including the waters of Denham Sound and the
from there due east to a point directly north of the high water mark of the northernmost point of Cape Peron, and from there south to the high water mark of the the eastern side by Peron Peninsula and on the western northernmost point of Cape Peron (and being enclosed on
side by Edel Land Peninsula), then from the high water

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mark of the northernmost point of Steep Point to the high water mark on the south westernmost point of Surf Point and east of Dirk Hartog Island;

"western gulf land area" means the land adjacent to the waters of the Shark Bay western gulf.

Bag limits for the Shark Bay eastern and western gulfs

30E.

appearing directly opposite an item in Part 6 of Schedule 3 is the bag (1) For the purposes of section 50 of the Act, the bag limit

limit in respect of fish of the class referred to in that item.

person - (2) The bag limit prescribed under this regulation applies to a

(a)	taking fish in either the waters of the Shark Bay eastern gulf or the waters of the Shark Bay western gulf; or
(b)	bringing fish onto land in the eastern gulf land area or the

western gulf land area,

as the case may be.

fish then, for the purposes of section 50 of the Act, the bag limit applies (3) If an item in Part 6 of Schedule 3 refers to 2 or more species of

in respect of fish that consist of one of those species or any combination

of those species.

than the species referred to in Part 6, Division 2 of Schedule 3 then, for (4) If fish consist of any species, or combination of species, other

the purposes of section 50 of the Act, the bag limit in respect of that species, or combination of species, is 7 fish (provided a limit in Part 6, Division 1 of Schedule 3 is not exceeded).

snapper prescribed under regulation 15. (5) This regulation does not affect the overall bag limit for pink

Schedule 2 amended

6.      Schedule 2 to the principal regulations is amended -

(a) in Division 3 in the item commencing "Snapper, Pink" by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraphs -

(b) when -

(i)	taken from; or
(ii)	a licensed fishing boat, from,

brought ashore from a boat, other than

defined in regulation 30D) ...............................500 the waters of the Shark Bay eastern gulf (as

(c) when

(i)      taken from; or

(ii)     brought ashore from a boat, other than a licensed fishing boat, from,

defined in regulation 30D) ...............................450	the waters of the Shark Bay western gulf (as
(d)	in any other case ..............................................410

and

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(b) by adding to the end of Division 3 the following -

Class of fish If of a length greater than the length specified in respect of each class of fish

Snapper, Pink, when -

(a)	taken from; or
(b)	a licensed fishing boat from,

brought ashore from a boat other than

the waters of the Shark Bay eastern gulf (as defined in regulation 30D) ..............................700

Schedule 3 amended

7. Schedule 3 to the principal regulations is amended by inserting after

Part 5 the following Part -

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PART 6— BAG LIMIT FOR THE WATERS OF THE SHARK BAY

EASTERN GULF AND THE SHARK BAY WESTERN GULF

[Reg. 30E]

Division 1

Fish Bag limit for Grouped bag

one day limit for one day

Cobia	4	)
Cod	)

(a)	Family Serranidae, except
Epinephelus spp.; 4
(b)	Of 30 kg in weight, or in excess of 1200 mm in
Epinephelus spp. in excess
length 0

Coral Trout, and Coronation Trout	4
Dolphinfish (mahi mahi)	4 7
Mackerel	4
Mackerel, Wahoo and Shark	4
Mulloway and Northern Mulloway	4
Queenfish	4
Samson Fish	4
Sharks, except Whale Shark	4

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Fish Bag limit for Grouped bag

one day limit for one day

Snapper, Pink — ) )

(a) when taken from the )

waters of the Shark Bay 4 ,	o f	)
Western gulf	which only	)
two may
be over	) )
700 mm in length	)
) 7
)

(b)	when taken from the
waters of the Shark Bay )

)

eastern gulf 2 ) )

Tuna, Southern Bluefin	4	) )
Yellowtail Kingfish	4	) )
Division 2

Fish Bag limit for
one day

Garfish	40
Hardyhead	40
Mullet, Sea and Yellow-eye	40
Whiting	40
Tailor	8
Octopus, Squid and Cuttlefish	15
Oyster	40

Threadfin (threadfin or bluenose
salmon) 20

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By Command of the Governor,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.