Guide to bays and inlets as defined in the Fisheries Regulations 2009

Port Phillip Bay means all the waters within the bays lying north of a line from the most seaward point of Point Lonsdale to the most seaward point of Point Nepean and includes the waters of Hobson's Bay and Corio Bay, but not the waters of Swan Bay;

Swan Bay includes all the waters of that bay lying westward of a line from Black Billy Point to Point Norgate westward from the mouth of the Queenscliff Creek;

Western Port means all of the waters of the bay known as Western Port which lie north of a line bearing 53° East from Cape Woolamai to the opposite shore and a line running directly from West Head at Flinders to the southernmost point of Point Grant on Phillip Island;

Anderson Inlet means the total area of the inlet bounded by a straight line running between the mean high water marks on the seaward extremities of each side of the Anderson Inlet entrance;

Shallow Inlet means the total area of that inlet bounded by a straight line running between the mean high water mark on the seaward extremities of each side of the Shallow Inlet entrance;

Corner Inlet means the total area of all the bays, inlets and entrances bounded by a line running south-westerly from the mean high water mark on the south-western end of the Ninety Mile Beach (McLoughlins Entrance) which follows the mean high water mark along the outer or seaward shoreline of the Nooramunga Islands that enclose Shoal or Shallow Inlet, crossing the entrances at McLoughlins Beach, Manns Beach, Kate Kearney Entrance and Port Albert with a straight line between the mean high water marks on the seaward extremities on each side of each entrance, continuing along the mean high water mark on the outer or seaward shoreline of Snake Island to the navigation light on Bentley Point then in a straight line to the mean high water mark on the most northern point of Entrance Point on Wilson's Promontory;

Gippsland Lakes means the total area of all waters bounded by a line commencing at the outer end of the western pier at the entrance wall at the entrance to the Gippsland Lakes, continuing in a north-westerly direction to the inner end of that pier then following the shoreline along the mean high water mark of such waters in a generally clockwise direction to the inner end of the eastern pier at the entrance wall at the entrance to the Gippsland Lakes, then following that wall to its outer end, then in a generally westerly direction to the commencement of that line, but does not include the waters east of Eastern Beach Road or any river, creek or stream flowing into the Gippsland Lakes (except Chinaman's Creek and Boxes Creek which flow into and form part of Bancroft Bay);

Cunninghame Arm means all of the waters of that arm in the Gippsland Lakes, east of a line running from the south-west point of Bullock Island south-easterly to the rock wall opposite, including the waters of that arm between Bullock Island and the mainland to the ocean side of the bridge between Bullock Island and the mainland;

North Arm means all the waters of that arm east of a line running between the south-west side of the ends of the 2 rocky walls at theentrance of the arm, including the waters of the arm between Bullock Island and the mainland up to the south-western side of the bridge between Bullock Island and the mainland;

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