SCHEDULE 7 - Persons permitted SCHEDULE 7 - Persons permitted to use gillnet in shark refuge areas

Rule 24

[Schedule 7 Amended by No. 17 of 1996, Applied:12 Apr 2017] [Schedule 7 Amended by S.R. 2023, No. 71, Applied:01 Nov 2023]

| | People permitted | | 1. | The holder of a fishing licence (personal), fishing licence (vessel) and apparatus licence who uses graball nets in the waters of Great Oyster Bay or in East Coast waters if – | | | (a) none of those nets exceeds 200 metres in length; and | | | (b) none of those nets are set within 50 metres of another net; and | | | (c) the total combined length of those nets does not exceed 800 metres. | | 2. | The holder of a fishing licence (personal) that is endorsed for the waters of the River Tamar if the gillnet is used in the shark refuge areas for which the licence is endorsed. | | 3. | The holder of a fishing licence (personal) that is endorsed for the waters of Port Sorell if the gillnet is used in the shark refuge areas for which the licence is endorsed. | | 4. | The holder of a fishing licence (personal) that is endorsed for the waters of the Mercury Passage if the gillnet is used within 200 metres of the low-water mark and outside the Maria Island National Park. | | 5. | The holder of a fishing licence (personal) that is endorsed for the waters of Frederick Henry Bay and Norfolk Bay, excluding Eaglehawk Bay, if the gillnet is used within 200 metres of the low-water mark of – | | | (a) the shore of those bays; and | | | (b) any islands, rocks or reefs within those bays which are exposed at Indian Spring Low Water, except – | | | (i) Spectacle Island; and | | | (ii) any waters of Frederick Henry Bay bounded in the north by an imaginary straight line starting from 200 metres north of the northernmost point of Sloping Island, then east in an imaginary straight line to the high water mark on mainland Tasmania and bounded in the south by an imaginary straight line from the southernmost point of Sloping Island east to the high-water mark near the southernmost end of Lagoon Beach on the Tasmanian mainland. | | 6. | The holder of a fishing licence (personal) that is endorsed for the waters of Frederick Henry Bay and Norfolk Bay, excluding Eaglehawk Bay, inshore of the following baselines if the gillnet is used in the shark refuge areas for which the licence is endorsed: | | | (a) from Tiger Head to 200 metres from the southern extremity of Spectacle Island; | | | (b) from 200 metres from the southern extremity of Spectacle Island to Spectacle Head; | | | (c) from the southern extremity of Carlton Bluff to Renard Point; | | | (d) from Renard Point to Primrose Point; | | | (e) from Primrose Point to Dorman Point; | | | (f) from Dorman Point to Fulham Point; | | | (g) from Fulham Point to the western extremity of Smooth Island; | | | (h) from the southern extremity of Smooth Island to Chronicle Point; | | | (i) from Sympathy Point to Parkinsons Point; | | | (j) from Parkinsons Point to Premaydena Point (otherwise known as Halfway Bluff); | | | (k) from Premaydena Point (otherwise known as Halfway Bluff) to Deer Point; | | | (l) from Deer Point to Ironstone Point; | | | (m) from Ironstone Point to latitude 42º57.5'S/longitude 147º43.8'E; | | | (n) from the northern extremity of Green Head to the northern extremity of Sloping Island; | | | (o) from the southern extremity of Sloping Island to Black Jack Point. | | 7. | The holder of a fishing licence (recreational graball) in the following waters that are open to netting: | | | (a) D'Entrecasteaux Channel; | | | (b) East Coast waters; | | | (c) the waters of Frederick Henry Bay and Norfolk Bay referred to in items 5 and 6; | | | (d) Great Oyster Bay; | | | (e) Mercury Passage within 200 metres of the low-water mark outside the Maria Island National Park; | | | (f) River Tamar waters downstream of a straight line running from the northern extremity of Garden Island to the George Town Monument. |