Section 11H - Fisheries Management (Supporting Plan) Regulation 2006 - Measuring length and mesh size of nets

11HMeasuring length and mesh size of nets

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11H Measuring length and mesh size of nets

(1) For the purposes of testing or determining its length, a net must be measured along the cork line or head line of the net from the first hanging to the last hanging.

(2) For the purposes of testing or determining the mesh size of a net that is described in a management plan for a fishery as being lawful (other than a net specified in the Table to this clause) the device described in subclause (3) must be used in the manner set out in subclause (4).

(3) The device (which must be verified in such manner as the Secretary may determine) must comply with the following description—

(a) it consists of a fixed member (in the form of a metal cylinder) in which is fitted a sliding member weighing 225 grams,

(b) both members have attached a fixed knife edge,

(c) when in use, the device is suspended from, or held by, the metal clip at the top of the fixed member,

(d) a scale and a point is marked on both members.

(4) The device must be used in the following manner—

(a) the net (the mesh size of which is to be measured) must be soaked in water for a period of not less than 5 minutes, after which both knife edges must be inserted in a mesh of the net, so that the mesh is supported by the knife edge of the fixed member at a knot while the knife edge of the sliding member is supported by the mesh at the knot diagonally opposite,

(b) the mesh being measured, when suspended as above, must hang in a plane parallel to the body of the device,

(c) the size of the mesh must then, without any unnecessary delay, be determined as the distance between the inside edges of the knots, as read from the scale on the sliding member, at a point indicated by a mark on the fixed member.

(5) For the purposes of testing or determining the mesh size of a net specified in the Table to this clause, the device described in subclause (3) must be used in the manner set out in subclause (4) except that—

(a) the weight specified in relation to that net in that Table must be attached to the sliding member, and

(b) the net (the mesh size of which is to be measured) must be soaked in water for a period of not less than 10 minutes.