Title: Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves)Regulations 2016
Subject: Fisheries ManagementAct 2007
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Last saved by: Ms Janine Ryan
Category: public
Document comments: 247

No 247 of 2016 published in Gazette 20.10.2016 p 4083

Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2016

Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2016
Schedule 1—Revocation of Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2008

Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2016
Revocation of Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2008—Schedule 1

South Australia
Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2016
under the Fisheries Management Act 2007

Contents
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Interpretation
4	Authorised access to, and fishing activities in, aquatic reserves
Schedule 1—Revocation of Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2008

1—Short title
These regulations may be cited as the Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2016.
2—Commencement
These regulations will come into operation 4 months after the day on which they are made (see Subordinate Legislation Act 1978 (section 10AA)).
3—Interpretation
	(1)	In these regulations—
Act means the Fisheries Management Act 2007;
Coobowie Fishing Zone means the Coobowie Aquatic Reserve excluding the waters of or near Salt Creek Swamp west of the main road causeway;
West Island Encounter Bay Exclusion Zone means that portion of the West Island Encounter Bay Aquatic Reserve contained within and bounded by a line commencing at Mean High Water Springs closest to 35°36′20.75″ South, 138°35′33.16″ East, then generally south‑westerly following the line of Mean High Water Springs to the location closest to 35°36′27.84″ South, 138°35′21.14″ East, then westerly to a line 100 metres seaward of Mean High Water Springs closest to 35°36′27.84″ South, 138°35′16.99″ East, then generally north‑easterly following a line 100 metres seaward of Mean High Water Springs to the location closest to 35°36′17.51″ South, 138°5′3.16″ East, then southerly to the point of commencement;
West Island Encounter Bay Fishing Zone means that portion of the West Island Encounter Bay Aquatic Reserve comprising the waters contained within and bounded by a line commencing at 200 metres seaward of Mean High Water Springs (King Beach) closest to 35°6′2.61″ South, 138°35′08.34″ East, then south‑easterly to a line 100 metres seaward of Mean High Water Springs (West Island) closest to 35°36′17.90″ South, 138°35′35.62″ East, then beginning generally westerly following a line 100 metres seaward of Mean High Water Springs (West Island) to the location closest to 35°36′38.04″ South, 138°35′20.46″ East, then north‑westerly to a line 200 metres seaward of Mean High Water Springs (King Head) closest to 35°36′24.15″ South, 138°34′58.14″ East, then beginning north‑easterly following a line 200 metres seaward of Mean High Water Springs to the point of commencement.
	(2)	In these regulations—
	(a)	words and expressions used that are defined in the Fisheries Management (General) Regulations 2007 have the same respective meanings as in those regulations; and
	(b)	a reference to a named aquatic reserve is a reference to the aquatic reserve of that name constituted under section 4 of the Act; and
	(c)	all lines in spatial descriptions are geodesics based on the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) as defined in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette GN35 of 6 September 1995, and all coordinates are expressed in terms of GDA94.
4—Authorised access to, and fishing activities in, aquatic reserves
For the purposes of section 76 of the Act—
	(a)	a person may enter and remain in any of the following aquatic reserves:
	(i)	Barker Inlet—St. Kilda Aquatic Reserve;
	(ii)	Coobowie Aquatic Reserve;
	(iii)	St. Kilda—Chapman Creek Aquatic Reserve;
	(iv)	Troubridge Hill Aquatic Reserve;
	(v)	West Island Encounter Bay Aquatic Reserve (other than the West Island Encounter Bay Exclusion Zone); and
	(b)	a person may engage in a fishing activity (including an act preparatory to, or involved in, the taking of an aquatic resource) in an aquatic reserve as follows:
	(i)	Barker Inlet—St. Kilda Aquatic Reserve—
	(A)	taking fish by using a rod and line or hand line;
	(B)	taking bloodworms (Class Polychaeta) for bait by using a hand net;
	(ii)	Coobowie Fishing Zone—
	(A)	taking fish by using a hand line or rod and line;
	(B)	taking fish for bait from the shore by any means;
	(iii)	St. Kilda—Chapman Creek Aquatic Reserve—
	(A)	taking Blue Swimmer Crab (Portunus pelagicus) by hand or by using a crab net or crab rake;
	(B)	taking fish by using a hand line or rod and line from the northern side of the breakwater;
	(iv)	Troubridge Hill Aquatic Reserve—taking fish by using a hand line or rod and line;
	(v)	West Island Encounter Bay Fishing Zone—taking fish by using a hand line or rod and line.
Note—
In this regulation, common and scientific fish names are given according to AS 5300—2015 Australian Fish Names Standard, as amended from time to time.

Schedule 1—Revocation of Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2008
The Fisheries Management (Aquatic Reserves) Regulations 2008 are revoked.
Made by the Governor's Deputy
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
on 20 October 2016
No 247 of 2016
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