How do the rules for commercial crocodile viewing differ to those for the general public?
An exemption under the crocodile conservation plan allows commercial crocodile viewing operators to bring a boat or vehicle closer than 10 metres to an estuarine crocodile in the wild, provided they abide by the Code of Practice — Commercial crocodile viewing. This statutory code promotes ecologically sustainable wild crocodile viewing and outlines the practices commercial operators must comply with when viewing estuarine crocodiles from closer than 10 metres. These include not pursuing a crocodile swimming in the water, not attempting to attract a crocodile and not restricting or interfering with the movement of a crocodile. The code is available on the DERM website (PDF, 80K)*.
