24Prohibited use of gillnets

24 Prohibited use of gillnets

(1)  A person must not set, or use, a gillnet in a shark refuge area unless –

(a) the person –

(i) is the holder of a fishing licence (personal) that is endorsed under rule 54 for the use of gillnet in that shark refuge area; and

(ii) is acting in accordance with that endorsement; or

(b) the person is a person specified in Schedule 7 .

Penalty:   Grade 2 penalty.

(2)  A person must not set, or use, a gillnet in –

(a) the waters of the River Derwent; or

(b) the waters of Macquarie Harbour that are southward and eastward of an imaginary straight line extending from Coal Head to Steadman Point; or

(c) the waters at Neck Beach; or

(d) the waters at Waubs Bay; or

(e) the waters at Musselroe Bay East; or

(f) the waters at Low Head; or

(g) the waters at Lillico Beach; or

(h) the waters at Parsonage Point; or

(i) the Macquarie Harbour Entrance; or

(j) the waters of Great Oyster Bay north of an imaginary straight line extending from Waterloo Point at Swansea to The Fisheries at Coles Bay; or

(k) Robbins Passage; or

(l) the waters near Stanley to the west of an imaginary straight line extending from the easternmost point of the small headland at the northern end of Godfreys Beach to the easternmost point at the southern end of Godfreys Beach; or

(m) the waters within 200 metres of Spectacle Island in Frederick Henry Bay; or

(n) the waters west of an imaginary straight line extending from a point 200 metres due west from the westernmost point at the northern end of Lagoon Beach to a point 200 metres due north of Black Jack Point; or