Summer is coming, we will more or less go to the seaside to catch crabs, catch fish, dig Pipi and so on, generally there will be fishing requirements nearby, must look carefully, otherwise the fine alone is enough for you to accept.
Werribee, two men and a woman (January 4), were arrested in Cape Schanck for catching more than 1100 shellfish.
According to reports, local fishing police last night patrol in the Cape Schanck parking lot found three suspicious persons. One man ran when asked to introduce himself, while the other tried to distract the police and stop them from checking the car. When the three were found to have illegally fished 423 millet snails, 539 litchi snails and 204 abalone, 195 of them were less than an hour in size, and patrolling police seized their cars with all their diving gear.
The woman also allegedly tried to hide a backpack containing 70 abalone in the bushes and tried to hide several bags of abalone taken out of the car by police officers.
The man who had escaped had come back after repeated persuasion from his male companion.
Eventually, the three would face A $79000 in fines, five years in prison, vehicle forfeiture and a long-term ban on fishing.
The arrest can be said to be a great joy, netizens have given likes to the fishing police.
In fact, cases of heavy losses due to illegal fishing are found everywhere every year. On Christmas Day, fishing officers arrested three male divers near the Kennett River. They caught 17 small abalone and the three were fined A $1745.
Earlier, a man in Victoria was sentenced to four years in prison for illegal fishing of 255 Roe's abalone fish and fined A $ four hundred thousand.
Another two men in northern Western Australia illegally fished 405abalone fish, with a fine of nearly A $1 million plus four years in prison.
Not only abalone, but also in Western Australia, seven fishing boats illegally caught lobster, each with a maximum penalty of A $ four hundred thousand plus four years in prison.
Joe Francis, Australia`s fisheries minister, warned everyone that fishing for lobsters that do not belong to you is a form of theft, that illegal fishing is a low-end act, and that it is a thief, which is "very much not Australia."
Fisheries regulators will continue to enforce the law day and night to combat such crimes! Moreover, overfishing abalone, to the local abalone ecological damage is very serious. Not only abalone, lobster, all kinds of seafood can not overcatch.
For seafood fishing, the regulations vary from state to state
According to the editor, many beaches have relevant rules and survey signs, but they are not guaranteed to have them everywhere, so when friends go, try to bring a ruler to facilitate the survey.
State seafood fishing details can be found on the local goverment website.
South Australia: http://pir.sa.gov.au/__data/asse. Ts_Web_20161128.pdf
Https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/fishe. L/rules-regulations
Victoria: https://vfa.vic.gov.au/recreatio. -and-closed-seasons
New state: https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishi. Hing-rules-and-regs
West Australia: http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/Docume. L_fishing_guide.pdf
In addition, if you find suspected illegal fishing, you can call the Fisheries Department`s 24-hour hotline at 13 FISH (13 3474) (anonymous) at any time.
Seafood fishing should be cautious, do not take chances, do not think that it will not be found, the final gain is not worth losing.
