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Australia · Spearfishing zone

Special Purpose Puerulus Monitoring Area (Boullanger Island, Tern Island, Whitlock Island and Osprey Island), Jurien Bay Marine Park (Western Australia)

Prohibited zonespearfishing closure (special purpose / recreation zone)

What this zone is

Overview

How spearfishing is treated at Special Purpose Puerulus Monitoring Area (Boullanger Island, Tern Island, Whitlock Island and Osprey Island), Jurien Bay Marine Park (Western Australia).

A special-purpose management area of Jurien Bay Marine Park covering the water enclosed by Boullanger, Tern, Whitlock and Osprey Islands, between 30°18.550’S and 30°19.393’S. Clause 5(1) of the Prohibition on Recreational Fishing (Jurien Bay Marine Park) Order 2005 prohibits all recreational fishing here and clause 5(2) restores one method only — a fishing line. This is the strictest of the park's special-purpose rules: unlike the shore-based and scientific-reference areas it does not even allow shore-based abalone or rock lobster take. Spearfishing is prohibited. Enforcement is by DPIRD fisheries officers; a western rock lobster puerulus (post-larval settlement) monitoring site in the island group west of Jurien.

On the coast

Location

Approximate reference point for this zone. See the full picture on the interactive map.

30.3140°S, 114.9998°E

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Source

This zone is documented in the official source below.

Before you dive

License for Australia

Whether you need a license to spearfish here, and how to get one.

License requiredvia State/territory fisheries authority (e.g. NSW DPIRD Fisheries, VFA Victoria, DPIRD WA, Fisheries Queensland, PIRSA, NRE Tasmania, NT Fisheries).

Online via the relevant state fisheries authority website, or from authorised agents/tackle shops.

Get your license

Opens the official portal · dpird.nsw.gov.au

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