Mercury (Hobart)

Notice to Wild Duck Hunters

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Duck hunters are reminded that the taking of wild duck in National Parks and reserves is not permitted with the exception of the following:

• MOULTING LAGOON GAME RESERVE excluding the area known as “The Sanctuary” situated in the northern part of the lagoon bounded on the western shore by high water mark and on the eastern side by the Coles Bay Road.

• LAKE TIBERIAS GAME RESERVE

• FARM COVE GAME RESERVE

• NORTH-EAST RIVER GAME RESERVE

• WATERHOUSE CONSERVATI­ON AREA including Big Waterhouse Lake and Blackman’s Lagoon only.

• CAMERON REGIONAL RESERVE excluding the Boobyalla and Foster Marshes area.

• LAKE CRESCENT- PUBLIC RESERVE (off Laycock Drive) for the purpose of carrying hunting equipment through to the edge of Lake Crescent only. Shooting within this public reserve is not permitted.

• LAKE CRESCENT including unallocate­d Crown Land only.

• LAKE SORELL including unallocate­d Crown Land only.

• BRUSHY LAGOON CONSERVATI­ON AREA and Crown Land at Brushy Lagoon.

This authority is issued in accordance with Regulation 28 of the National Parks and Reserves

Management Regulation­s 2019 and Regulation 23 of the Crown Lands Regulation­s 2011 to the holders of wild duck licences to take wild duck in the above reserves during the period 7 March to 8 June 2020.

This authority also permits those licence holders to take a dog onto the above reserves for the purpose of retrieving wild duck.

NOTE: This notice does not confer a right to enter any private land.

Tim Baker

Director National Parks and Wildlife Director-General Lands

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