Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 9 April 2025
These rules are administered in the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the rule)
These rules amend the Fisheries (Scallop) Rules 2020 by –(a) providing for ‘catch sharing’ in certain circumstances in the recreational scallop fishery; and(b) clarifying the minimum size limit rule in relation to scallops taken by dredge; and(c) allowing a person without a fishing licence (scallop) to be in possession of a scallop dredge in certain authorised circumstances; and(d) updating certain provisions relating to the person responsible for exercising certain powers and performing certain functions, and the requirements for record keeping, consequential on the amendments made to the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 by the Living Marine Miscellaneous Amendments (Digital Processes) Act 2021; and(e) making other minor revisions to the rules.