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Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025

Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas - Regulations, review, and consequential amendments - Regulations

74: Regulations for restrictions and conditions that apply to authorised persons undertaking ring net fishing

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"Rules for people allowed to do ring net fishing in the Hauraki Gulf"

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The Governor-General can make rules about ring net fishing. You need to follow these rules if you are allowed to do ring net fishing. The rules can say when you can go ring net fishing, which is between 1 March and 31 August. The rules can also say which types of fish you can catch, like kahawai, grey mullet, or trevally. The Ministers can decide on other rules for ring net fishing if they think it is necessary. These rules are made under the Fisheries Act 1996 and section 23. You can find out more about how these rules are published in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 3Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas
Regulations, review, and consequential amendments: Regulations

74Regulations for restrictions and conditions that apply to authorised persons undertaking ring net fishing

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister and the Minister responsible for administration of the Fisheries Act 1996, make regulations that prescribe restrictions and conditions that apply to an authorised person undertaking ring net fishing in accordance with section 23.

  2. Regulations made under subsection (1)—

  3. must provide for—
    1. restrictions relating to the period when an authorised person may undertake ring net fishing, which may be any period of time during the period starting on 1 March and ending on 31 August of each year only; and
      1. restrictions relating to the species of fish that an authorised person may target, which may be all or any of the following species only:
        1. kahawai:
          1. grey mullet:
            1. trevally:
          2. may provide for any other restrictions or conditions that apply to an authorised person undertaking ring net fishing that the Ministers consider necessary.

            1. Regulations made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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