Queensland Subordinate Legislation as Made

MARINE PARKS (GREAT SANDY) ZONING PLAN 2017 - REG 74

74 Bait netting

(1) A person may carry out bait netting in the marine park using only—

(a) for a recreational fisher under the Fisheries Regulation 2008 —a cast net, scoop net or seine net, complying with chapter 4, part 1, division 4 of that regulation; or

(b) for a commercial fisher—a cast net, or mesh net, complying with the Fisheries Regulation 2008 , chapter 9, part 5.

(2) A commercial fisher who is bait netting in the conservation park zone (other than any part of the conservation zone in the Great Sandy area) must not—

(a) take a relevant fish while bait netting; or

(b) possess a relevant fish taken in contravention of paragraph (a).

(3) For subsection (2) (a) , a commercial fisher does not take a relevant fish while bait netting if—

(a) the fish is taken unintentionally; and

(b) the fisher does not allow the net containing the fish to be out of the water other than to immediately remove the fish from the net; and

(c) the fisher immediately releases the fish into water deep enough to allow the fish to escape.

(4) In this section—

"commercial fisher" means a commercial fisher under the Fisheries Regulation 2008 .

"possess" , a relevant fish, means—

(a) to have custody or control of the fish; or

(b) to have an ability or right to readily obtain custody or control of the fish.

"relevant fish" means a fish of any of the following species—

(a) bream of the genus Acanthopagrus or Rhabdosargus;

(b) flathead of the genus Platycephalus;

(c) whiting of the genus Sillago.