Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000

Subregulation 12.35(3)

DETERMINATION RELATING TO FISHING OTHER THAN COMMERCIAL FISHING

ASHMORE REEF MARINE PARK

I, JASON MUNDY, Acting Director of National Parks, under subregulation 12.35(3) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000, HEREBY DETERMINE for the Recreational Use Zone within Ashmore Reef Marine Park, being the area shown as such in the park map in Schedule 2 and described in Schedule 4 to the North-west Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018, and being an area in which fishing other than commercial fishing is allowed, that:

1. only ray-finned fish (Class Actinopterygii) may be taken, subject to paragraph (b);
2. the kinds of ray-finned fish specified in the Schedule hereto must not be taken;
3. subject to paragraph (a), the limits prescribed at the date of this Determination by or under relevant laws of the State of Western Australia that apply to the area of the Park with respect to-
   1. the kind of fish that a person may take, or must not take;
   2. the maximum number of fish, or maximum number of a species of fish, that a person may possess in a day;
   3. the minimum or maximum size of fish, or minimum or maximum size of a species of fish, that a person may take;
   4. the maximum number of fillets of fish, or the maximum number of fillets of a species of fish, that a person may possess in a day; and,
   5. the minimum or maximum size of fillets of fish, or minimum or maximum size of fillets of a species of fish, that a person may possess,

apply to fishing in the Recreational Use Zone.

Note:  In accordance with paragraph (a), no ray or shark species (Class Chondrichthyes) or other types of fish may be taken within the Recreational Use Zone.

Dated this 27 th day of June 2018

SIGNED

Jason Mundy

SCHEDULE

Kinds of ray-finned fish that must not be taken