Commencement 1. This Regulation commences on 1 July 1998.

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1 No. 37 FISHERIES AND OYSTER FARMS ACT REGULATION (Relating to size limits, bag limits and prohibited species) NEW SOUTH WALES [Published in Gazette No. 80 of 22 June 1990] HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 193, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder. IAN ARMSTRONG Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Commencement 1. This Regulation commences on 1 July Amendments 2. The Fisheries and Oyster Farms (General) Regulation 1989 is amended: (a) by inserting after clause 32 (2) (f) the following paragraph: (g) in the case of turban snail - the diameter of the shell is to be measured along its longest axis. (b) by omitting the Table to clause 32 and by inserting instead the following Table: 1

2 TABLE Common name Species Minimum measurement in centimetres Abalone Blackfish, Rock Bream, Black or Southern Bream, Yellowfin Crab, Blue Swimmer Crab, Mud, Black or Mangrove Crab, Spanner Crayfish, Freshwater spiny Murray or Murrumbidgee Flathead, Common or Dusky Flathead, Sand Flathead, Tiger Kingfish, Yellowtail Lobster, Common Rock Lobster, Southern Rock (male) Lobster, Southern Rock (female) Luderick Morwong (Jackass fish) Morwong, Red (Sea Carp) Morwong, Rubberlip Mullet, Sea (including "Bully") Mulloway Salmon, Atlantic Shark, School Snail, Sydney Turban Snail, Military Turban Haliotis ruber Girella elevata Acantho agrus butcheri Acantho pagrus australis Portunus pelagicus Scylla serrata Ranina ranina Euastacus armatus Platycephalus fuscus Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus Neo platyce phalus richardsoni Seriola lalandi Jasus verreauxi Cirella tricus pidata Nernadactgus macro pterus Cheilodactlus fuscus Nemadactylus douglasii Mugil cephalus Argyrosomus holole pidotus Salmo salar Galeorhinus galeus Turbo torquatus Turbo rnilitaris

3 Snapper Chrysophrys auratus 28 Tarwhine Rhabdosargus sarba 20 Teraglin Atractoscion aequidens 38 Trout, American Brook Salvelinus fonntinalis Trout, Brown Salmo trutta Trout, Rainbow Oncorhpchus mykiss Whiting, Sand (silver) Sillago ciliata 27 (c) by omitting from clause 34 (1) (a) the words (except those specified in subclause (4))"; (d) by omitting clause 34 (4); (e) by omitting the Table to clause 34 and by inserting instead the following Table: TABLE PART 1 (FISH - MARINE OR ESTUARINE) Bream, yellowfin Acanthopagrus australis 20 comprised wholly Bream, southern or Acanthopagrus butcheri of bream or wholly of black Rhabdosargus sarba tarwhine or partly of Tar whine Groper, blue, red or Achoerodus viridis 2 brown Kingfish, yellowtail Seriola lalandi Mackerel, spotted Mackerel, Spanish or narrow barred Morwong, red Mulloway Snapper Teraglin Scomberomorus munroi Scomberomorus commerson Cheilodactylus fuscus Argyosomus holole pidotus Chrysophrys auratus Atractoscion aequidens comprised wholly of narrow barred or Spanish mackerel or wholly of spotted mackerel or partly or of which 3 must not exceed 60cm 10 3

4 Tunas of the genus Thunnus Tuna, yellowfin Thunnus albacares 2 comprised of any Tuna, albacore Thunnus alalunga single species or a Tuna, big-eye Thunnus obesus combination of Tuna, northern bluefin Thunnus maccoyii species, of which Tuna, southern bluefin Thunnus tonggol is greater than 1 kilograms weight (whole) or 12 1/2 kilograms weight (gilled and gutted) PART 2 (SHELLFISH - MOLLUSCS AND CRUSTACEANS) Abalone Cockle Crab, blue swimmer Crab, mud, black or mangrove Crab, spanner Mussel, edible Rock Lobster, eastern Rock Lobster, southern Sea urchin, black or purple Sea urchin, brown Sea urchin, orange Pipi All other gastropod molluscs Haliotis ruber Anadara sp. Portunus pelagicus Scylla serrata Ranina ranina Family Mytilidae Jams verreauxi Centrostephanus rodgersi Heliocidaris erythrogramma Heliocidaris tuberculata Donax deltiodes class Gastropoda litre container litre container comprised wholly of a single species or of mixed species 4

5 PART 3 (FISH - FRESHWATER AND ESTUARINE) Australian Bass Macquaria comprised wholly of novemaculeata bass or wholly of Estuarine Perch Macquaria colonorum perch or partly of Macquarie Perch Macquaria australasica 2 Salmon, Atlantic Salmo salar 10 comprised wholly Trout, American Salvelinus fontinalis of salmon or wholly of Trout, Brown Salmo trutta trout or partly or Trout, Rainbow Oncorhynchus mykiss (f) by inserting at the end of clause 61 (2) the following words: Australian Grayling (Prototroctes maraena) EXPLANATORY NOTE The object of this Regulation is to amend the Fisheries and Oyster Farms (General) Regulation 1989: (a) to prescribe a minimum size for yellowtail kingfish and turban snails and to specify how the size of a turban snail is to be measured; and (b) to restate the complete list of fish to which a minimum size is applicable with some variations to the species names; and (c) to remove the special bag limit applicable to Lake Canobolas; and (d) to restate the complete list of fish to which a bag limit is applicable including the addition of certain species of bream, kingfish, mackerel, mulloway, snapper, teraglin, tuna, crab and perch; and (e) to prohibit the taking of, or any attempt to take, fish known as Australian grayling.