Victorian Consolidated Regulations

FISHERIES REGULATIONS 2019 - REG 284

    (1)     The licence holder, in or on Port Phillip Bay, must not use commercial fishing equipment—

        (a)     in the area that is north or west of a line running from the seaward end of the Williamstown Breakwater Pier to the most southerly point of Webb Dock in Port Phillip Bay; or

        (b)     in the waters of Limeburners Bay (Grammar School Lagoon) near Geelong north or east of a line running from the fishing boundary post on Point Abeona to the fishing boundary post on the opposite shore; or

        (c)     in any shipping channel defined by channel markers.

Reg. 284(2) amended by S.R. No. 161/2021
reg. 24.

    (2)     The licence holder, in the area of Port Phillip Bay that is west of a line from the shoreward end of the Queenscliff Pier to the seaward end of Point Nepean, must not use commercial equipment other than a fishing line.

    (3)     The licence holder, in or on the waters of Port Phillip Bay, must not use commercial fishing equipment other than a commercial hoop net or a mussel rake—

        (a)     within a distance of 400 metres from any part of the St Kilda Pier; or

        (b)     within a distance of 230 metres from any part of the Kerford Road Jetty, Hobson's Bay; or

        (c)     within a distance of 30 metres from any part of any other pier, jetty or wharf.