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Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025

Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas - Regulations, review, and consequential amendments - Review of seafloor protection areas, high protection areas, and ring net fishing provisions

76: Ministerial review of ring net fishing provisions

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"Checking if ring net fishing rules are working well"

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You need to know what the ring net fishing provisions are. They are found in section 23 and section 74, and any secondary legislation made under that section. The Ministers will review these provisions. The Minister and the Minister responsible for the Fisheries Act 1996 must start this review within 3 years of this Act starting. They will look at the costs and benefits of the ring net fishing provisions. They will also look at how these provisions affect the high protection areas. The review will say whether the ring net fishing provisions should be kept, changed, or removed. This recommendation must be made within 1 year of the review starting. You and other interested people will have a chance to give your thoughts on the ring net fishing provisions. The Ministers can do another review of the ring net fishing provisions at any time after the first review is finished. Te Ohu Kai Moana has the same meaning as in section 5(1) of the Maori Fisheries Act 2004.

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Part 3Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas
Regulations, review, and consequential amendments: Review of seafloor protection areas, high protection areas, and ring net fishing provisions

76Ministerial review of ring net fishing provisions

  1. In this section and section 77, the ring net fishing provisions are—

  2. section 23; and
    1. section 74, and any secondary legislation made under that section.

      1. The Minister and the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fisheries Act 1996 must initiate a review of the operation of the ring net fishing provisions before the expiry of 3 years from the commencement of this Act.

      2. The review must—

      3. assess—
        1. the costs and benefits of the ring net fishing provisions and, to the extent practicable, the fishing undertaken in reliance on those provisions; and
          1. the effect of the ring net fishing provisions on the relevant high protection areas and any biodiversity objectives for those areas; and
          2. recommend whether the ring net fishing provisions should be—
            1. retained; or
              1. amended; or
                1. repealed.

                2. The recommendation under subsection (3)(b) must be made within 1 year of the initiation of the review under subsection (2).

                3. The Ministers must ensure that, as part of the review, there is reasonable opportunity for interested persons (including Te Ohu Kai Moana) to make submissions on the operation of the ring net fishing provisions.

                4. The Ministers may initiate 1 or more subsequent reviews of the operation of the ring net fishing provisions at any time after the conclusion of the review initiated under subsection (2).

                5. Subsections (3) to (5) apply, with all necessary modifications, to a subsequent review initiated under subsection (6).

                6. In this section, Te Ohu Kai Moana has the same meaning as in section 5(1) of the Maori Fisheries Act 2004.