Allows Masters to use a float rig with up to three surface floats attached in waters greater than 45.7 metres in depth when fishing for rock lobster under the authority of a West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery Licence. Conditions apply.  Whale reporting is a condition of this exemption from 1 April – 30 June 2025.

Allows operators awaiting applications for the transfer of entitlement, to fish with additional pots while transfers of entitlements are pending, to a maximum of 150 pots from 1 July to 1 August 2024.

Allows smaller fishers to use additional rock lobster pots during the whale mitigation season of 1 May – 31 October each year.

Allows the commercial take of setose western rock lobster throughout the entire year.

Provides for an interim method for weighing lobster catch within Zone A for those fishers delivering catch to licenced carrier boats CBL 1013 or CBL 1014 for sale to registered receivers Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-Operative Ltd and KB Seafood Company PTY LTD. The exemption is in force between 19 March 2025 and 30 June 2026.

Removes the prohibition of fishing for rock lobster within the Big Bank area as defined by Schedule 4 of the West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery Management Plan 2012 for the period 1 February to 30 June 2025.

Allows commercial fishers to land unlimited back of boat lobsters in respect of a trip and provides exemption from the requirements of a registered receiver specified under the West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery Management Plan 2012.

Allows fishers to use bovine material, skin or hide as bait when fishing for rock lobster in the West Coast Rock Lobster Managed Fishery and the South Coast Crustacean Managed Fishery, for a commercial purpose.