Fisheries (Recreational) (Salmonid) Regulations 1997 (Vic)

Fisheries (Recreational) (Salmonid) Regulations

1997

S.R. No. 44/1997

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation Page

1.	Objective	1
2.	Authorising provision	1
3.	Principal Regulations	1
4.	Commencement	2
5.	New regulation 18	2
18. Close seasons	2
6.	Size and bag limit restrictions on taking of brown trout, rainbow
trout and chinook salmon	3
7.	Restriction on the use of trout or salmon ova as bait or berley	4
8.	Listing of waters in which special bag bag limits for the taking of
brown trout, rainbow trout and chinook salmon apply	5

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STATUTORY RULES 1997

S.R. No. 44/1997

Fisheries Act 1968

Fisheries (Recreational) (Salmonid) Regulations

1997

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:
Dated: 3 June 1997

Responsible Minister:

PATRICK McNAMARA

Minister for Agriculture and Resources

N. WHITE

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

1. Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to provide for effective management of salmonid fishery by imposing a close season and other restrictions on fishing for salmonids in Victoria.

2. Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 81 of the Fisheries Act 1968.

3. Principal Regulations

In these Regulations, the Fisheries (Recreational)
Regulations 19921 are called the Principal
Regulations.

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4. Commencement

(1) These Regulations (other than regulations 6, 7 and

8) come into operation on the day on which these

Regulations are made.

(2) Regulations 6, 7 and 8 come into operation on 6

September 1997.

5. New regulation 18

For regulation 18 of the Principal Regulations,
substitute—

"18. Close seasons

(1) For the purposes of the Act the close seasons

for fin-fish and the areas and periods for
which they apply are specified in the table

below—

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Species	Area	Period
Macquarie	Lake Dartmouth	1 October to
perch	and all its	18 December
tributaries or	in each year
within 500 metres of those waters
Murray cod	All Victorian	1 September
waters	to 30 November in each year
River	South of the Great	1 September
blackfish	Dividing Range	to 31 December in each year
Brown trout	All Victorian	From
Chinook	waters except	midnight on
salmon	lakes and	the Queen's
Rainbow	reservoirs	Birthday
trout	holiday
(Monday) in
June in each
year to
midnight on

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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Species	Area	Period
the Friday before the first Saturday in September in each year

(2) Despite the close season specified in the

table in sub-regulation (1) for brown trout,
chinook salmon and rainbow trout, a person
must not take during the close season brown
trout, chinook salmon or rainbow trout

from—

(a) Lake Wendouree; or

(b) whilst in a boat, from Lake Purrumbete.".

6.  Size and bag limit restrictions on taking of brown trout, rainbow trout and chinook salmon

For the Table in regulation 19 of the Principal

Regulations, substitute—

"TABLE

Species	Area	Bag Limit
King George	All Victorian waters	20
whiting
Macquarie perch	All Victorian waters	10
Snapper	All Victorian waters
40 cm or more in	5
length
Below 40 cm in	10
length
Murray cod	All Victorian waters	2
Salmonids (brown	(a) All Victorian	A total of
trout, rainbow	waters other than	10 trout
trout and chinook	inland waters
salmon)	specified in Schedules 3, 4

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Species Area Bag Limit

and 5

(b) In inland waters	A total of
specified in	10 fish of
Schedule 3	which no
more than 5 trout may be below 30 cm in length and of which no more than 5 may be chinook salmon
(c) In inland waters	A total of
specified in	5 trout
Schedule 4
(d) In inland waters	A total of
specified in	5 trout of
Schedule 5 and	which no
their tributaries	more than 2 trout may be greater than 30 cm in length and of which no more than 1 trout may be greater than 40 cm in length.".

7.  Restriction on the use of trout or salmon ova as bait or berley

At the end of regulation 21 of the Principal
Regulations, insert—

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"(2) A person must not use trout or salmon ova as

bait or berley to take or attempt to take fish

of any species.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.".

8.  Listing of waters in which special bag bag limits for the taking of brown trout, rainbow trout and chinook salmon apply

After Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations, insert—

"SCHEDULE 3

Inland waters with bag limits for the purposes of paragraph

(b) in the table in regulation 19

Aringa Reservoir
Barwon River
Beaufort Lake
Blue Rock Dam
Bostock Reservoir
Bullarto Reservoir
Cairn Curran Reservoir
Campaspe River (upstream of Lake Eppalock)
Colbrook Reservoir
Cosgrove Reservoir
Dean Reservoir
Deep Lake
Dock Lake
Fyans Lake
Goldfield Reservoir
Gong Gong Reservoir
Greenhill Lake
Hamilton Lake
Hanging Rock Lake
Harcourt Reservoir
Hepburn Lagoon
Hollands Creek
Hopkins River
Jil Jil Lake
King River (downstream of Lake William Hovell)
Konongwootong Reservoir
Lake Batyo Catyo

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Lake Burrumbeet Lake Cartcarrong Lake Elingamite Lake Gillear

Lake Glenmaggie
Lake Hume
Lake Learmonth
Lake Modewarre
Lake Murdeduke
Lake Natimuk
Lake Purrumbete
Lake Tooliorook
Lake Wallace
Lake Wendouree
Landsborough Reservoir
Lang Lang River
Lauriston Reservoir
Lilydale Lake
Macalister River
Malmsbury Reservoir
Merri River
Moorabool Reservoir
Mt Emu Creek
Newlyn Reservoir
Nursery Reservoir (Macedon)
Pine Lake
Rainbow Creek
Rocklands Reservoir
Ryans Creek
Sugarloaf Reservoir
Talbot Reservoir
Tarwin River (East Branch)
Teddington Reservoirs
Toolondo Reservoir
Upper Coliban Reservoir
West Barwon Dam

Wombat Reservoir

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SCHEDULE 4

Inland waters with bag limits for the purposes of paragraph

(c) in the table in regulation 19

Alexandra Lake (Ararat) Anderson Lake (Chiltern) Caulfield Racecourse Lake (Caulfield)

Cobden Lake (Cobden)
Daylesford Lake (Daylesford)
Donald Caravan Park Lake (Donald)
Eildon Pondage (Eildon)
Esmonde Lake (Ballarat)
Guyatt Lake (Sale)
Hyland Lake (Churchill)
Jack Roper Reserve Lake (Campbellfield)
Jubilee Lake (Daylesford)
Kennington Reservoir (Bendigo)
Lake Kerferd (Beechworth)
Leighs Lake (Glenrowan)
Lismore Golf Course Dam (Lismore)
Morwell Lake (Morwell)
Neanger Lake (Eaglehawk)
Nhill Lake (Nhill)
Rawson Dam (Rawson)
St Georges Lake (Creswick)
Seagull Lake (Geelong)
Tea Tree Lake (Mortlake)
Victoria Lake (Rutherglen)
Watonga Drive Dam (Horsham)

Weeroona Lake (Bendigo)

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SCHEDULE 5

Inland waters with bag limits for the purposes of paragraph

(d) in the table in regulation 19

Big River (Eildon)
Campaspe River (downstream of Lake Eppalock)
Corryong Creek
Dandongadale River
Dargo River

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Delatite River Delegate River Gellibrand River

Goulburn River (upstream of the old Hume Highway on the Melbourne side of Healesville)".

bridge, south of Seymour)
Howqua River
Jamieson River
Kiewa River (downstream from the junction of the West
Branch and the East Branch)
King River (upstream of Lake William Hovell)
Limestone Creek
Mitta Mitta River
Morass Creek
Ovens River (upstream of Buffalo River Road bridge,
Myrtleford)
Rose River
Thompson River (upstream of the impounded waters of
Cowwarr Weir)
Wentworth River
West Kiewa River

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NOTES

1 S.R. No. 151/1992. Reprinted to S.R. No. 14/1996 and subsequently

amended by S.R. Nos 26/1996, 120/1996 and 154/1996.