03-04-2007, 04:48 PM
Hi Mike, I'm really looking forward to fishing for snapper in the bay again! I've caught a few to 40cm offshore from Bateman's Bay, but only ever 1 or 2 in a session. In answer to your questions:
1) The rules state that you can have no more than 2 hooks per line - and a squid jig is classified as 1 hook - so you can have a maximum of 2 squid jigs per line.
2) The squid bag limit of 10 is per angler.
3) The 40 fish bag limit is also per angler. Some things you should know is that the 40 fish bag limit only applies to scale fish, not squid, or sharks and rays, and it also doesn't apply to bait species such as mullet or garfish - so in addition to your 40 scale fish (flathead, snapper, whiting etc), you can also legally have in your posession 40 garfish, 40 mullet, 10 squid, and sharks and rays (gummy sharks, elephant fish, banjo sharks etc, with each shark/ray species having their own bag limits). Why anyone would ever need to keep so many fish is another point, but those are the rules as set down in the fisheries regulations.
1) The rules state that you can have no more than 2 hooks per line - and a squid jig is classified as 1 hook - so you can have a maximum of 2 squid jigs per line.
2) The squid bag limit of 10 is per angler.
3) The 40 fish bag limit is also per angler. Some things you should know is that the 40 fish bag limit only applies to scale fish, not squid, or sharks and rays, and it also doesn't apply to bait species such as mullet or garfish - so in addition to your 40 scale fish (flathead, snapper, whiting etc), you can also legally have in your posession 40 garfish, 40 mullet, 10 squid, and sharks and rays (gummy sharks, elephant fish, banjo sharks etc, with each shark/ray species having their own bag limits). Why anyone would ever need to keep so many fish is another point, but those are the rules as set down in the fisheries regulations.