Repeat offender has vehicle, jetski and trailer seized at Ulladulla.
Fisheries Officers from the Batemans Bay District and the Statewide Investigations and Operations Group Regional Mobile Squad – South have apprehended a repeat fisheries offender with an indictable quantity of Abalone and a commercial quantity of Eastern Rock Lobster on the State’s south coast.
The officers were conducting routine compliance patrols around the Ulladulla area when they came across a well known fisheries offender diving from a jetski. After observing the man diving, Fisheries Officers then apprehended the man and allegedly found him in possession of 61 Abalone (30 times the legal limit) and 6 Eastern Rock Lobsters (3 times the legal limit) and later allegedly found a further 33 Abalone hidden in the Jetski.
