Western Australian Current Regulations

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 16D

16D .         Finfish possession limits (Act s. 51(1))

        (1)         For the purposes of section 51(1) of the Act, the maximum quantity of finfish (other than Bait Fish, Garfish, Hardyhead or Mullet) that a person may be in possession of in the circumstances set out in column 1 of the Table is the quantity set out in column 2 opposite the circumstances.

Table

Item	Column 1 Circumstances	Column 2 Possession limit
1.	The fish is located anywhere.	(a)         20 kg of fillets; or (b)         10 kg of fillets and one day’s bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks; or (c)         2 days’ bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks.
2.	Item 4 does not apply to the person and the fish is located at a place that is not the person’s principal place of residence.	(a)         20 kg of fillets, of which any amount in excess of 10 kg is fillets of large pelagic finfish that have the skin attached; or (b)         10 kg of fillets and one day’s bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks; or (c)         2 days’ bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks.
3.	The person is on, or has just completed, a day trip and the fish were taken during the course of the trip.	(a)         Where all of the fish is filleted, 20 kg of fillets, of which any amount in excess of 10 kg is fillets of large pelagic finfish that have the skin attached; or (b)         where not all of the fish is filleted, one day’s bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks, not more than 10 kg of which is filleted.
4.	The person is on, or has just completed, an extended fishing tour and the fish were taken during the course of the tour.	(a)         20 kg of fillets; or (b)         10 kg of fillets and one day’s bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks; or (c)         2 days’ bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks.
5.	The fish is located in the Freycinet Estuary or the adjacent land area west of Shark Bay Road and north of Useless Loop Road.	(a)         5 kg of fillets; or (b)         one day’s bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks.
6.	The fish is located in — (a)         the Abrolhos Islands reserve; or (b)         the Abrolhos Islands Fish Habitat Protection Area.	(a)         10 kg of fillets, of which any amount in excess of 5 kg is fillets of large pelagic finfish that have the skin attached; or (b)         one day’s bag limit of whole fish or fish trunks.
7.	The fish is barramundi and is located at a place that is not the person’s principal place of residence.	2 barramundi.
8.	The fish is located in the Jungulu Special Purpose Zone (wilderness conservation) of the Lalang‑garram / Camden Sound Marine Park.	(a)         1 whole fish; or (b)         2 fillets of fish.

        Notes for this Table:

        1.         The possession limit set out in item 1 applies to a person in each case.

        2.         If 1 or more of the possession limits set out in items 2 to 8 also apply to the person, each of those limits and the limit set out in item 1 apply simultaneously.

        (2)         For the purposes of —

            (a)         the Table to subregulation (1), fish on a boat that are not in the possession of any other person on the boat are taken to be in the possession of the master of the boat; and

            (b)         determining the number of fish in a person’s possession under column 2 paragraph (b) of item 3 or item 7 of the Table to subregulation (1), 2 fillets are taken to be equivalent to 1 whole fish.

        [Regulation 16D inserted: SL 2021/118 r. 9; amended: SL 2022/128 r. 5; SL 2023/2 r. 6.]