Fish Resources Management Amendment Regulations (No. 6) 1997 (WA)

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FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT REGULATIONS

(No. 6) 1997

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

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

Amendment Regulations (No. 6) 1997.

snapper breeding ground;

Principal regulations

2. 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 20 November 1997 see 1996 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 88, and Gazette 27 March, 4 July, and 12 and 30 September 1997.1

Regulation 14 amended

3.      Regulation 14 of the principal regulations is amended -

(a)	by deleting "and" after paragraph (b);
(b)	by deleting the full stop at the end of paragraph (c) and substituting a semicolon; and
(c)	by inserting after paragraph (c) the following paragraphs -

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(d) Division 4A of this Part - Bag limits for Perth pink

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(e)	and Division 4B of this Part - Bag limits for Shark Bay;
(f)	Division 4C of this Part - Bag and possession limits in Ord River area (Barramundi).

Regulation 30B amended

4.      Regulation 30B (3) of the principal regulations is repealed.

Regulation 30E amended

5.      Regulation 30E (5) of the principal regulations is repealed.

Part 4, Division 4C, inserted

6.     After Division 4B of Part 4 of the principal regulations the following

Division is inserted -

"

Division 4C - Bag and possession limits in Ord River

area (Barramundi)

Interpretation

30F. In this Division -

"Ord River area" means the area bounded by a line starting from the intersection of Victoria Highway and Ivanhoe Road, then heading in a generally north north-westerly direction along Research Station Road to its intersection with Stock Route Road, then in a generally easterly direction following Stock Route Road to its intersection with Weaber Plains Road, along Weaber Plains Road in a generally northerly direction to its intersection with Carlton Hill Station Road, then in a generally west north-westerly direction along Carlton Hill Station Road to the Carlton Hill Station homestead, then in the direction of 2810 for 9.5 kilometres to the Old Dip Yard, then in a generally northerly direction following the eastern boundary fence of the No. 7 Bore paddock for 14.4 kilometres to where the fence abuts the Onslow Hills, then due north for 7.2 kilometres, then due west for 5.3 kilometres to the point

paddock abuts the Onslow Hills, thengenerally westerly where the northern boundary fence of Buffalo Tank

and north westerly along the northern boundary fence of

Buffalo Tank paddock for 15 kilometres to the point where the fence ends in mud flats, then in the direction of 2900 for 5 kilometres to Mount Connection, then from there along a straight line to the point where an east-west line passing through Scott Point on Adolphus Island intersects with the high water mark on the eastern side of the Ord River, then due west to the high water mark on the western side of the East Arm of Cambridge Gulf, then from there along a straight line to Limpet Hill, then due south for 20.5 kilometres to Wedge Hill, then in the direction of 1300 for 10.7 kilometres to the western boundary fence of Goose Hill Station, then generally in a southerly direction along the western boundary fence of Goose Hill Station for 6.7 kilometres to Parry Creek, Kununurra Road, then in a generally north-easterly direction along the southern boundary fence of Goose Hill Station parallel to Parry Creek, Kununurra Road for 2 kilometres to the main access road gate for Goose Hill Station, then due south for 9.8 kilometres, then due east to Parry Creek, Kununurra Road, then along Parry Creek, Kununurra Road in a southerly direction to its intersection with the Victoria Highway, then from there to the starting point at the intersection of Victoria Highway and Ivanhoe Road;

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"Ord River area waters" means any waters within the Ord

River area.

Bag limit for barramundi in Ord River area

30G. For the purposes of section 50 of the Act, the bag limit in respect of barramundi taken from the Ord River area waters is one barramundi.

Possession limit for barramundi in Ord River area

30H. (1) For the purposes of section 51 (1) of the Act, the maximum quantity of barramundi that a person may be in possession of in the Ord River area, other than at the person's principal place of residence, is one barramundi.

(2) Regulation 16 (2) and (3) apply for the purpose of determining

the number of barramundi in a person's possession. 79

Schedule 2 amended

7. Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal regulations is amended in Division 3 by inserting before the item that begins "Snapper, Pink", under the heading that includes "If of a length greater than the length specified in respect of each class of fish", the following item —

it

Barramundi, when taken from the Ord River area

waters (as defined in regulation 30F) 800

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.