Fisheries (General and Fees) Regulations 2016
15Prohibition on taking certain fish
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15 Prohibition on taking certain fish
(1) A person must not take or be in possession of a keyhole limpet or limpet of any of the superfamilies Fissurellacea, Patellacea or Siphonariacea.
Penalty: Grade 2 penalty.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to an Aborigine who is engaged in an Aboriginal activity.
(3) A person, in State waters, must not take, or be in possession of, any of the following:
(a) any species of pipehorse, pipefish, seahorse or seadragon of the family Syngnathidae;
(b) a handfish of the family Brachionichthyidae;
(c) a threefin blenny of the genus Forsterygion.
Penalty: Grade 2 penalty.
(4) A person must not take, or be in possession of, any of the following:
(a) great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias);
(b) basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus);
(c) grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus);
(d) megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios);
(e) whale shark (Rhincodon typus).
Penalty: Grade 2 penalty.