Fisheries Management Act 1994 Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Bag Limits) Regulation 2000 (2000-626) [GG No 141 of 27.10.2000, p 11301] (NSW)

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Fisheries Management (General) New South Wales

Amendment (Bag Limits)

Regulation 2000

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Fisheries Management Act 1994.

The Hon EDWARD OBEID, M.L.C.,

Minister for Fisheries

Explanatory note

The Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 1995 sets out the maximum number of fish of any particular species that a recreational fisher may take in any one day, or may be in possession of at any time (known as “bag limits”). It also sets out minimum and maximum size requirements for a number of species of fish.

The objects of this Regulation are as follows:

(a)	to introduce or change bag limits for certain fish, including gemfish, billfishes, various species of perch, wahoo, mangrove jacks, sharks and rays, prawns, tuna and dusky flathead,
(b)	to introduce a general bag limit of 20 for most marine species of fish that are not currently the subject of a bag limit,

(c) to increase the minimum size for dusky (or common) flathead and snapper. This Regulation has a staggered commencement. Most of the changes will commence on 1 November 2000, but the changes relating to dusky flathead and snapper will not commence until 1 July 2001.

Published in Gazette No 141 of 27 October 2000, page 11301	Page 1
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Explanatory note

This Regulation is made under the Fisheries Management Act 1994, including sections 15, 17, 18 and 289 (the general regulation-making power).

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Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Bag Limits)	Clause 1
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Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Bag
Limits) Regulation 2000

1     Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Fisheries Management (General) Amendment

(Bag Limits) Regulation 2000.

2 Commencement

(1)	This Regulation commences on 1 November 2000, except as provided by subclause (2).
(2)	Schedule 1 [1], [2] and [6] commence on 1 July 2001.

3 Amendment of Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 1995

The Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 3)

[1]     Clause 7, Table 1

Omit “33” from column 2 of the item relating to common or dusky flathead
in Part 1.
Insert instead “36”.

[2]     Clause 7, Table 1

Omit “28” from column 2 of the item relating to snapper in Part 1.
Insert instead “30”.

[3]     Clause 10A

Insert after clause 10:

10A General bag limit

(1)

For any species of marine or estuarine fish (including marine or estuarine invertebrates and tunicates) not included in the Table to this Division:

(a)	the daily limit of fish of that species is 20, and
(b)	the possession limit of fish of that species (when the person in possession is in or on or adjacent to any waters or is transporting or storing the fish) is 20.

Note. Examples of the species of fish to which this clause applies are squid, cuttlefish and octopus.

(2)

Subclause (1) does not apply to the following species of fish:

(a)	all species of family Clupeidae (such as pilchards, whitebait, blue bait and herring),
(b)	all species of family Engraulididae (such as anchovies),
(c)	all Trachurus spp (such as yellowtail and jack mackerel),
(d)	slimy mackerel (Scomber australasicus).
(e)	all species of family Hemiramphidae (such as garfish),

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(f)	all species of family Atherinidae (such as hardy head),
(g)	all species of family Mictyridae (such as soldier crabs),
(h)	saltwater nippers (Callianassa and Alpheus spp),

(i)        all species of worms.

Note. Although this clause does not apply to worms, beach worms are the subject of a daily limit and possession limit of 20 under Part 2 of the Table to this Division.

[4]     Part 2, Division 3, Table

Omit the item relating to bar cod, bass groper, hapuka and trevalla from
Part 1.
Insert instead:

Bar cod	Epinephelus,	5 comprised of any
ergastularius	single species or a
Bass grouper	Polyprion americanus	combination of species,
Gemfish	Rexea solandri	with a maximum of 2
Hapuka	Polyprion oxygenios	gemfish
Trevalla	Hyperoglyphe antartica

[5]     Part 2, Division 3, Table

Insert in alphabetical order in Part 1:

Billfish (all species)	Species of Family	2 of each species
Xiphiidae and Family Istiophoridae

[6]     Part 2, Division 3, Table

Omit “10” from column 2 in the item relating to dusky or common flathead
in Part 1.
Insert instead “10 (with not more than one longer than 70 cm)”.

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[7]     Part 2, Division 3, Table

Insert in Part 1, after the item relating to Australian salmon:

Sharks and rays	All species	5 comprised of any single species or a combination of species,
with a maximum of 2 of any species of wobbegong shark

[8]     Part 2, Division 3, Table

Insert in Part 1, in alphabetical order, the following items:

Mangrove Jack	Lutjanus	5
argentimaculatus
Perch, moses	Lutjanus russelli	5
Perch, pearl	Glaucosoma scapulare	5
Wahoo	Acanthocybium solandri	5

[9]     Part 2, Division 3, Table

Omit the item relating to tuna from Part 1. Insert instead:

Tuna, albacore	Thunnus alalunga	7 comprised of any
Tuna, bigeye	Thunnus obesus	single species or
Tuna, longtail	Thunnus tonggol	combination of species,
Tuna, southern bluefin	Thunnus maccoyii	of which no more than 2
Tuna, yellowfin	Thunnus albacares	can have a length of 90 cm or more and no more than 5 can have a length of less than 90 cm

[10]     Part 2, Division 3, Table

Insert in alphabetical order in Part 2:

Prawns	Species of Family	10 litres
Penaeidae and Macrobrachium spp

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[11]     Part 2, Division 3, Table

Insert after the Table:

Note. A scientific name for a fish specified in this Table is the scientific name of the species as at the date the name of the fish was inserted in the Table.

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