(1) The holder of a fishing licence (personal) who is not operating in
accordance with a Commonwealth authority must not (a) take, or
have possession of, more than 200 kilograms of any species or type of
scalefish covered under the Commonwealth Act, other than the species specified
in paragraph (c) ; or
(b) take, or have possession of, more than the
following amounts of scalefish: (i) 10 fish or 40 kilograms, whichever is
greater in weight, in total of albacore tuna ( Thunnus alalunga ), skipjack
tuna ( Katsuwonus pelamis ), longtail tuna ( Thunnus tongol ) and Rays bream
(family Bramidae) (pomfret);
(ii) 2 fish in total of bigeye tuna and yellowfin
tuna ( Thunnus albacares );
(iii) 50 kilograms in total of hapuku ( Polyprion
oxygeneios ), bass ( Polyprion americanus ) and bass groper ( Polyprion moene
);
(iv) 50 kilograms of blue-eye trevalla;
(v) 100 kilograms of blue grenadier
( Macruronus novaezelandiae );
(vi) 50 kilograms of gemfish ( Rexea solandri
);
(vii) 50 kilograms of redfish ( Centroberyx affinis ); or
(c) take, or have
possession of, the following fish: (i) orange roughy ( Hoplostethus atlanticus
);
(ii) flathead, deepwater ( Neoplatycephalus conatus );
(iii) king dory (
Cyttus traversi );
(iv) black oreo ( Allocyttus niger );
(v) spiky oreo (
Neocyttus rhomboidalis );
(vi) smooth oreo ( Pseudocyttus maculatus );
(vii)
warty oreo ( Allocyttus verrucosus );
(viii) ox-eye oreo ( Oreosoma atlanticum
);
(ix) yelloweye nannygai ( Centroberyx australis );
(x) southern bluefin
tuna;
(xi) northern bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus );
(xii) billfish (families
Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae).
Penalty: Fine not exceeding the
applicable Grade 2 penalty.
(2) Subrule (1) does not apply to the holder of a fishing licence (rock lobster).
(3) A person who is the holder of a fishing licence (rock lobster) must
not use more than the following fishing gear to take fish of the superclass
Pisces: (a) graball net, the total headline length of which is not more than
150 metres;
(b) 2 fish traps;
(c) trolling lines;
(d) one of the following:
(i) one demersal longline not more than 1 000 metres in length with not
more than 200 snoods and hooks attached or capable of being attached;
(ii) 2
droplines to which no more than 200 snoods and hooks are attached or capable
of being attached.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding the applicable Grade
2 penalty.
(4) The holder of a fishing licence (rock lobster) using not
more than the fishing gear specified in subrule (3) must not
(a) take, or have possession of, more than the following amounts of scalefish:
(i) 10 fish or 40 kilograms, whichever is greater in weight, in total of
albacore tuna, skipjack tuna, longtail tuna and Rays bream;
(ii) 100 kilograms
of blue-eye trevalla;
(iii) 200 kilograms of ling ( Genypterus blacodes );
(iv) 50 kilograms of gemfish;
(v) 20 kilograms of garfish;
(vi) 30 fish of
bastard trumpeter;
(vii) 30 fish of flathead;
(viii) 15 fish of southern
calamary;
(ix) 60 fish of warehou;
(x) 60 fish of jackass morwong; or
(b)
take, or have possession of, the following scalefish: (i) bigeye tuna;
(ii)
billfish;
(iii) northern bluefin tuna;
(iv) orange roughy;
(v) southern
bluefin tuna;
(vi) yellowfin tuna;
(vii) yelloweye nannygai; or
(c) land or
unload more than (i) 150 kilograms of Australian salmon; or
(ii)
30 kilograms of wrasse.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding the applicable
Grade 2 penalty.
(5) A person who holds a Commonwealth authority to
take a species of fish for which a Commonwealth quota applies, or which
authorises the taking of that species if the person holds a quota for that
species, must not take, or have possession of, any fish of that species other
than in accordance with that authority. Penalty: Fine not exceeding
the applicable Grade 2 penalty.
(6) The holder of a fishing licence
(personal) must not, in State waters, take, or have possession of, more than
250 kilograms in total of all of the following fish: (a) striped trumpeter;
(b) snapper;
(c) yellowtail kingfish.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding
the applicable Grade 3 penalty.