Tasmanian Numbered Regulations

FISHERIES (SCALEFISH) RULES 1998

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Application of rules
   5.      Duration of rules
   6.      Consultation arrangements
   7.      Classes of fishing licences
   8.      Closed and open season for scalefish

   PART 2 - Commercial fisheries

           Division 1 - Licences

   9.      Fishing for commercial purposes
   10.     Fishing licence (banded morwong)
   11.     Fishing licence (wrasse)
   12.     Selling banded morwong and wrasse
   13.     Taking fish by purse seine net
   14.     Taking fish by lampara net
   15.     Taking and possessing shark
   16.     Use of certain gillnets
   17.     Possession of certain sharks
   18.     Taking sharks by gillnet
   19.     Shark gillnet
   20.     Taking sharks by hook
   21.     Possessing or using nets
   22.     Taking fish by small mesh gillnet
   23.     Use of fishing gear

           Division 2 - Fishing gear allocation

   24.     Fishing licence (scalefish A)
   25.     Fishing licence (scalefish B)
   26.     Fishing licence (scalefish C)
   27.     Fishing licence (rock lobster)
   28.     Fishing licence (small mesh gillnet)
   29.     Fishing licence (purse seine net)
   30.     Fishing licence (beach seine)
   31.     Fishing licence (vessel)
   32.     Authority of fishing licence (shark gillnet)
   33.     Authority of fishing licence (shark hook)
   34.     Use of dipnets, squid jigs and spears
   35.     Carrying hooks

           Division 3 - Australian salmon

   36.     Carrying Australian salmon
   37.     Authority of fishing licence (Australian salmon)
   38.     Taking Australian salmon in certain waters
   39.     By-catch

           Division 4 - Endorsements

   40.     Endorsement of fishing licences
   41.     Small mesh gillnet endorsement
   42.     Special small mesh gillnet endorsement
   43.     Small mesh and special small mesh gillnet endorsement
   44.     Beach seine net endorsement
   45.     Graball net endorsement in shark nursery waters
   46.     Gillnet endorsement in shark nursery waters

           Division 5 - Miscellaneous matters

   47.     Buoy marks
   48.     Use of dinghies
   49.     Fish caught in rock lobster pot
   50.     Fishing gear on commercial fishing trip

   PART 3 - recreational fisheries

   51.     Use of nets in recreational fisheries
   52.     Authority of recreational fishing licences
   53.     Number of recreational fishing licences
   54.     Recreational fishing licence number
   55.     Recreational fishing gear tags
   56.     Restrictions on use of fishing gear
   57.     Use of cast net

   PART 4 - Use of fishing gear and vessels

           Division 1 - Nets

   58.     Seine nets
   59.     Weight of nets
   60.     Mullet nets
   61.     Fish traps
   62.     Fish nets
   63.     Marking of nets
   64.     Nature of buoys
   65.     Fishing licence (shark gillnet)
   66.     Commercial graball net
   67.     Small mesh gillnet
   68.     Recreational graball net
   69.     Beach seine net
   70.     Night setting of nets

           Division 2 - Other fishing gear

   71.     Longlines, traps and droplines
   72.     Taking certain fish with spear
   73.     Spears

           Division 3 - Vessels

   74.     Use of gillnets on vessels
   75.     Use of purse seine nets on fishing vessels
   76.     Using fishing vessel for taking mackerel

   PART 5 - Prohibited and Restricted use of FISHING gear

           Division 1 - Prohibited use of nets

   77.     North west region
   78.     North east region
   79.     Southern region

           Division 2 - Restricted use of nets

   80.     Rivers Mersey, Forth and Leven
   81.     Macquarie Harbour
   82.     Coles Bay
   83.     Georges Bay
   84.     D'Entrecasteaux Channel
   85.     River Derwent
   86.     Use of nets in certain waters
   87.     Use of graball net in certain waters
   88.     Use of gillnet in shark nursery waters
   89.     Use of mullet net in certain waters
   90.     River Tamar
   91.     Port Sorell
   92.     Use of beach seine net
   93.     Use of small mesh gillnets
   94.     Use of special small mesh gillnets
   95.     Automatic hook baiting and setting gear

   PART 6 - Criteria and qualifications for licences

           Division 1 - Qualifications

   96.     Claims of catch history
   97.     Qualifications in relation to amounts for catch history

           Division 2 - Scalefish included or excluded from catch history

   98.     Fish included in catch history
   99.     Fish excluded from catch history
   100.    Limitations on catch history
   101.    Accrual of catch history
   102.    Fish taken by purse seine nets

           Division 3 - Miscellaneous

   103.    Transfer of catch history
   104.    Proof of catch history

   PART 7 - Miscellaneous

           Division 1 - Measurements

   105.    Measurement of nets
   106.    Measurement of lines
   107.    Measurement of size of fish

           Division 2 - Catch and by-catch limits

   108.    Limits on taking or possessing certain fish
   109.    Limits on taking and possessing small pelagic species
   110.    Limits on possessing certain fish
   111.    Limits on taking tuna for recreational purposes
   112.    Limits on taking trevalla for recreational purposes

           Division 3 - Size limits

   113.    Size limits of banded morwong
   114.    Size limits of wrasse
   115.    Size limits of school shark
   116.    Size limits of gummy shark
   117.    Size limits of other fish

           Division 4 - Other matters

   118.    Taking bream
   119.    Taking and possessing warehou
   120.    Taking sharks in certain waters
   121.    Sale of bream
   122.    Due dates for licences
   123.    Qualifying for licence
           SCHEDULE 1 - Conversion rates for whole fish