390Wet well register

390 Wet well register

(1) If the licence holder holds or keeps rock lobster in a wet well, the licence holder must maintain a wet well register in respect of that wet well.

(2) A wet well register must specify the following details—

(a) a description of the location of the wet well;

(b) the personal file number of the holder of the rock lobster fishery licence or a person acting on behalf of that holder;

(c) each time rock lobster are removed from the wet well—

(i) the date and time at which rock lobster are removed from the wet well; and

(ii) the number of live rock lobster removed from the wet well; and

(iii) the number of dead rock lobster (if any) removed from the wet well; and

(iv) the number of rock lobster remaining in the wet well.

(3) The licence holder must ensure that a wet well register required to be maintained under subregulation (1) is immediately completed whenever rock lobster are removed from the wet well.

(4) The licence holder must ensure that the wet well register is kept in electronic form in the manner required by the Victorian Fisheries Authority and is completed via the fisheries notification service.

Part 11—Scallop

Division 1—Minimum size and catch limits for scallop

391 Minimum size for scallop

(1) For the purposes of the Act, the minimum size for scallop taken under a Scallop Dive (Port Phillip Bay) Fishery Access Licence is 90 millimetres when measured in a straight line at the widest point across the shell.

(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to doughboy scallop.

There are offences in sections 68A and 68B of the Act relating to taking or possessing fish that are less than the minimum size specified for that species of fish in these Regulations. Various penalties apply.