Offence to use or possess line and hook or handline in certain inland waters during the salmonid closed season
129 Offence to use or possess line and hook or handline in certain inland waters during the salmonid closed season
A person must not use or possess a line and hook or a handline from midnight on the Monday of the Queen's Birthday weekend in June each year to midnight on the Friday before the first Saturday in September in that same year in any of the waters or areas referred to in subregulation (2).
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
For the purposes of subregulation (1), the waters and areas are the following—
the Goulburn River and its tributaries upstream of the Trawool Bridge to the fishing boundary posts situated 200 metres downstream of the Eildon Pondage Weir release gates;
the Mitta Mitta River and its tributaries upstream of Peters Bridge (Tallandoon) to the Dartmouth Pondage;
the Kiewa River and its tributaries upstream of Keegan's Bridge (near Dederang);
the Tanjil River and its tributaries upstream of its junction with the Latrobe River to the Blue Rock Dam;
in, on or next to any of the waters referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d).
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