Fisheries (Abalone) Amendment Rules 2004

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 15 December 2004

These rules are administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the rule)

(a) requiring cancellation reports to be made in certain circumstances; and

(b) disallowing the use of caufs for abalone; and

(c) requiring that all abalone taken above the relevant size limit and within the relevant quota limit be landed; and

(d) providing that not more than one blacklip abalone part of the fishery may be fished on a fishing trip; and

(e) allowing diving in teams in certain circumstances; and

(f) specifying ways in which an amount of abalone taken in excess of a quota limit may be dealt with.