Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 128S

128S .         Restricted fishing tours, limits on fishing etc. by participants etc.

        (1)         In this regulation —

        restricted fishing tour means a fishing tour conducted by virtue of a restricted tour operator’s licence.

        (2)         The master of a boat used for a restricted fishing tour must not allow a participant on the tour to bring onto land any fish from the boat.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        (3)         The master of a boat being used for a restricted fishing tour must not —

            (a)         commence the tour with any fish on the boat; or

            (b)         allow any fish to remain on the boat at the end of the tour.

        Penalty: $10 000.

        (4)         A person in charge of a restricted fishing tour must not allow participants on the tour to take more than a reasonable quantity of fish for a meal for those on the boat at the time the fish is taken.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        (5)         It is a defence in proceedings for an offence against subregulation (3) for the person charged to prove that the fish was purchased from a person other than a participant on the tour for the purpose of providing meals for participants on a tour on the boat.

        [Regulation 128S inserted in Gazette 27 Jun 2003 p. 2393‑4; amended in Gazette 4 Nov 2005 p. 5312.]

        [Heading inserted in Gazette 1 Jul 2011 p. 2722.]