Fisheries Declaration 2019
sec.140Using nets in commercial fisheries
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sec.140 Using nets in commercial fisheries
A person using a net in a fishery area of a commercial fishery must not, without a reasonable excuse, do anything that effectively reduces the mesh size of the net below the minimum size stated for the net in an authority or a fishery provision about the fishery. covering a net or overlapping nets However, subsection (1) does not apply to doing something that effectively reduces a net’s mesh size if doing the thing is authorised under an authority or a fishery provision about the commercial fishery. s 140 amd 2019 SL No. 181 s 27 sch 1 (sec.140-ssec.1) A person using a net in a fishery area of a commercial fishery must not, without a reasonable excuse, do anything that effectively reduces the mesh size of the net below the minimum size stated for the net in an authority or a fishery provision about the fishery. covering a net or overlapping nets (sec.140-ssec.2) However, subsection (1) does not apply to doing something that effectively reduces a net’s mesh size if doing the thing is authorised under an authority or a fishery provision about the commercial fishery.