Scallop season opens, and you can now share your catch!
by Department of NRE Tasmania 11 Apr 22:46 UTC
A collection of commercial scallops © Department of NRE Tasmania
The scallop season opens statewide on Saturday 12 April for all areas except the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.
New catch sharing rules mean it's now easier to share scallop fishing with your friends and family. To support these new catch sharing arrangements a boat limit of 250 scallops has also been introduced.
How does catch sharing work?
Under the new catch sharing rules, a recreational scallop licence holder can take scallops on behalf of another licence holder on the same boat, provided the person they are fishing on behalf of:
- also dived for scallops on that trip and
- did not succeed in taking their bag limit.
A maximum of one licence holder per boat, who did not dive, may also have a bag limit of scallops caught on their behalf.
No individual fisher may possess more than their bag limit after catch has been shared. A new boat limit of 250 scallops has also been introduced.
For more information, including other changes to the scallop rules, visit here.
The new catch sharing rules also deliver on an action identified in the Tasmanian Recreational Sea Fishing Strategy.
Learn more here...