284Restrictions on use of certain commercial fishing equipment in certain places in or on Port Phillip Bay

284 Restrictions on use of certain commercial fishing equipment in certain places in or on Port Phillip Bay

(1) The licence holder, in or on Port Phillip Bay, must not use commercial fishing equipment—

(a) in the area that is north or west of a line running from the seaward end of the Williamstown Breakwater Pier to the most southerly point of Webb Dock in Port Phillip Bay; or

(b) in the waters of Limeburners Bay (Grammar School Lagoon) near Geelong north or east of a line running from the fishing boundary post on Point Abeona to the fishing boundary post on the opposite shore; or

(c) in any shipping channel defined by channel markers.

Reg. 284(2) amended by S.R. No. 161/2021
reg. 24.

(2) The licence holder, in the area of Port Phillip Bay that is west of a line from the shoreward end of the Queenscliff Pier to the seaward end of Point Nepean, must not use commercial equipment other than a fishing line.

(3) The licence holder, in or on the waters of Port Phillip Bay, must not use commercial fishing equipment other than a commercial hoop net or a mussel rake—

(a) within a distance of 400 metres from any part of the St Kilda Pier; or

(b) within a distance of 230 metres from any part of the Kerford Road Jetty, Hobson's Bay; or

(c) within a distance of 30 metres from any part of any other pier, jetty or wharf.