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Have recently seen a couple of nets being used and not sure of the regulations regarding these. Is anyone able to point me at a website where I could find out more?
They were both relatively close to where I live and have been fishing (which may partly explain the lack of fish on my lures). The first was at Elmer - there are a number of man-made rock islands there. I was walking along the shore at low tide, when the water has retreated to the other side of the islands, and saw someone gathering a net that had been placed across the gap between two islands. The second was today, I was out at dawn and about an hour later a small boat went down from a slipway nearby and laid a net about 80-100 metres out, parallel to the shore. It was pretty close to what would be low tide there. Wasn't quite in front of me but not far off.
They were both relatively close to where I live and have been fishing (which may partly explain the lack of fish on my lures). The first was at Elmer - there are a number of man-made rock islands there. I was walking along the shore at low tide, when the water has retreated to the other side of the islands, and saw someone gathering a net that had been placed across the gap between two islands. The second was today, I was out at dawn and about an hour later a small boat went down from a slipway nearby and laid a net about 80-100 metres out, parallel to the shore. It was pretty close to what would be low tide there. Wasn't quite in front of me but not far off.