No there isn't. Although it's all how you read into the regs. Directly from the regs:
Snagging – means attempting to catch or catching a fish using a hook:
(a) other than to induce the fish to voluntarily take the hook in its
mouth; or
(b) by intentionally piercing and hooking a fish in any part of the
body other than the mouth.
Snagging Device – means:
(a) an instrument that is designed for the purpose of snagging fish;
or
(b) hooks or lures that are altered to facilitate the snagging of fish.
It Is Unlawful to:
- Fish by snagging.
- Possess fish taken by snagging.
- Possess a snagging device while angling.
Releasing Prohibited Fish
You must immediately release every fish that cannot be legally kept
because of species, catch limit, size limit or other regulation, without
exception, even if the fish is injured or dead. When the fish is alive, you
must release it in a manner that causes the least harm to the fish.
Examples of prohibited fish are:
- a species for which the limit is 0.
- a fish smaller than the minimum-size limit.
- a fish larger than the maximum-size limit.
- a fish the size of which is protected by a slot-size limit.
- a fish that has been snagged.- a fish caught after you have already kept your limit.
As defined in these regs, a "snagged" fished is defined as something that is intentionally snagged with a "snagging device". It is illegal to keep such fish caught in this manner. But it doesn't not say that you can't accidentaly hook a fish in another place other than the mount and define this as snagging. Two different things and shouldn't be confused together. Thus it is legal as defined in these regs to possess a fish that you have foul hooked, as long as you aren't using a snagging device and it is not intentional.
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