These Rules, consisting of 40 sections divided into seven Parts and completed by one Schedule, apply to the marine plant fishery requirements. The Rules implement the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 by defining the classes of a fishing licence such as: a) class marine plant (i) fishing licence (introduced marine plant); (ii) fishing licence (King Island kelp); (iii) fishing licence (marine plant); (iv) fishing licence (Undaria); b) class commercial dive, fishing licence (commercial dive). Marine plants are considered algae and seaweed of the following divisions: (i) Chlorophyta (green algae); (ii) Heterokontophyta of the class Phaeophyceae (brown algae); (iii) Rhodophyta (red algae); or (b) seagrass of the division Magnoliophyta.
Australia · 2017-08-16