Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 20 September 2006
These regulations are administered in the Department of Primary Industries and Water.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the regulation)
These regulations amend the Fisheries (General and Fees) Regulations 2006 by reducing minimum size limits for abalone in certain parts of Bass Strait. More specifically, they –(a) prohibit the commercial taking or possession of blacklip abalone with a shell length less than 110 millimetres in an area designated as the north coast blacklip area; and(b) from 1 November 2006, generally prohibit the taking or possession of greenlip abalone with a shell length less than 132 millimetres in the Perkins Bay greenlip area; and(c) remove references to the north coast greenlip area which become obsolete on 1 November 2006.