Other prohibited interactions
315 Other prohibited interactions
A person must not, without a reasonable excuse, do any of the following—
make a loud or sudden noise within 300m of a marine mammal that may disturb the mammal;
Examples of loud or sudden noise that may disturb a marine mammal—
recordings of whale or dolphin sounds or songs played under water
touch a marine mammal;
feed a marine mammal.
Maximum penalty—80 penalty units.
Subsection (1)(c) does not apply to—
the feeding of a dolphin—
under section 45(1); or
under a permission granted under the Marine Parks Act 2004; or
Note—
See the Marine Parks Regulation 2017, section 19 for the restriction on the grant of permissions authorising the feeding of dolphins in a marine park or part of a marine park.
the discarding of bycatch, by a commercial fisher, in a way that is not directed towards feeding a marine mammal.
In this section—
commercial fisher see the Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019, section 5.
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