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| Rock Lobster Regions and Area RestrictionsRegions
General Area Restrictions
No Possession Zones
No Rock Lobster Pot Areas
No Rock Lobster Ring Areas
 Introduced from the 2011/12 recreational rock lobster season, Tasmania is divided into the Eastern and Western Rock Lobster Fishing Regions and new catch limits apply for the Eastern Region. See the map below.
Eastern Region: includes all State fishing waters and islands eastward of Point Sorell and Whale Head (southern most point). This includes Flinders, Bruny, Maria, Schouten and any other islands.
Western Region: includes all State fishing waters and islands westward of Point Sorell and Whale Head.
A separate bag and possession limit applies in northern Bass Strait for all waters north of a line of latitude 39°33' (including both the Eastern and Western regions), however the boat limit for each Region still applies (see diagram below). The northern Bass Strait catch limits align with Victorian limits to assist policing.
There are restrictions on the taking of rock lobster in the following areas:- Elephant Rock Research Area: no abalone, rock lobster or dive fishing.
- North Rock Research Area: no abalone, rock lobster or dive fishing.
- Waterwitch Reef Research Area: no dive fishing.
- Kent Group Marine Nature Reserve: no fishing or setting of fishing gear in part of the reserve.
- Inner Sister Island Research Area: no dive fishing.
- Swan Island Research Area: no dive fishing.
- Governor Island Marine Nature Reserve: no fishing or setting of fishing gear.
- Maria Island Marine Nature Reserve: no fishing or setting of fishing gear in part of the reserve.
- Taroona Waters (Crayfish Point): no swimming, diving, netting, potting or rings and no take or possession of abalone and rock lobster within the reserve. Also, no taking, fishing or possession of abalone and rock lobster whilst swimming or diving within 200 m of Taroona waters reserve.
- Tinderbox Marine Nature Reserve: no fishing or setting of fishing gear.
- Ninepin Point Marine Nature Reserve: no fishing or setting of fishing gear.
- George III Rock Research Area: no swimming, diving or anchoring.
- Port Davey/Bathurst Harbour Marine Nature Reserve: no fishing or setting of fishing gear in part of the reserve.
- Doughboys Research Area: no dive fishing.
- Macquarie Island Marine Nature Reserve: no fishing or setting of fishing gear.
For more information and maps, see the Marine Reserves and Fisheries Research Areas page on this website.
The use of rock lobster pots is prohibited in the following areas:
- D’Entrecasteaux Channel: with a southern boundary being a line from Scotts Pt to the northern tip of Partridge island and then from the southern tip of Partridge Island south to Labillardiere Peninsula on Bruny Island and a northern boundary being a line from Dennes Pt to Piersons Pt.
- River Derwent: upstream from an imaginary straight line drawn from Dennes Point to Cape Direction.
|  | - Georges Bay: west of the line of longitude of the end at the training wall situated at the entrance to Georges Bay.
|  | - King Island: Waters within 300 metres from the Blow Hole on the Eastern side of King Island.
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Rock lobster rings may be used in all waters apart from some Marine Reserves and Fisheries Research Areas.
Contact: Recreational Fishing EnquiriesRecreational Fisheries Section
1 Franklin Wharf
GPO Box 44
Hobart TAS 7001
Phone: 03 6233 7042 or 1300 720 647
Email: Fishing.Enquiries@dpipwe.tas.gov.au
Lobster illustration by Peter Gouldthorpe
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