{"id":6191,"date":"2026-06-23T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/unusual-side-effect-of-a-fisheries-regulation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:07:11","slug":"unusual-side-effect-of-a-fisheries-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/unusual-side-effect-of-a-fisheries-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Side Effect of a Fisheries Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may have seen the regulation that, for fish with a minimum, or slot, length size rule:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You must not alter the length of a fish which is subject to a minimum or maximum size limit<\/em> &#8230;.<em>You cannot remove the head or tail<\/em> &#8230; <em>This means you cannot fillet your fish or possess filleted fish if you are in, on or adjacent to the water.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a news report here that tells the sorry tale of two guys who had cut a Murray Cod into steaks but were then inspected by a Fisheries Compliance Officer. Since the length of the fish could not be verified, they were fined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/aussie-man-fined-300-for-eating-his-campsite-catch-ridiculous-072658546.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen the regulation that, for fish with a minimum, or slot, length size rule: You must not alter the length of a fish which is subject to a minimum or maximum size limit &#8230;.You cannot remove the head or tail &#8230; This means you cannot fillet your fish or possess filleted fish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-news","category-tips"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aQnH-1BR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}