Fishing Regulations and Licenses




on the demand of any ranger, constable, officer of the said
society, or of any person producing a license, produce and
show to such ranger, officer, constable, or person, his license,
and the contents of his creel or bag, and the bait used by him
for taking, catching, or killing such trout, perch, or other
acclimatized fish.
11. Any person taking or catching any trout not exceeding
10 in. in length from nose to tip of tail shall immediately
return it alive into the water from which the same is taken.
12. No person shall use, or make use of, a torch, acetylene
lamp, or other artificial light when fishing for trout, perch,
or other acclimatized fish.
13. No person shall cross-line fish, stroke-haul, or use any
other unsportsmanlike device for the purpose of taking,
catching, or killing trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish;
nor shall any person use any of the above-mentioned baits
with any medicated or chemical preparation whatsoever.
14. Except as aforesaid, no person shall fish with or use
any net, or any instrument, or device or means for taking
trout, perch, or other acclimatized fish in any river or stream
within the district aforesaid, or at the mouth or entrance of
any such river or stream.
15. For the purpose of these regulations the mouth of every
river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet of the
same and the seashore between such outlets, and shall extend
over a radius of 500 yds. from the point or line where the
waters of such river or stream meet those of the sea, or of any
harbour at low water.
16. No person shall buy, sell, or expose or offer for sale
or shall fish for the purpose of obtaining for sale, any trout,
perch, or other acclimatized fish, or any part thereof, unless
he has a license to do so under regulations for taking trout,
perch, or other acclimatized fish, or for selling them.
17. No person shall take or catch more than twenty trout
or more than twenty pounds weight of trout in any one day.
18. The penalty for the breach of any of these regulations
shall not be less than £2 or more than £50.
19. If any person shall be convicted of an offence against
these regulations, the license (if any) held by the offender
shall thereupon become void.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

EAST COAST ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Gisborne Land District, bounded by a
line commencing at Maungapohatu Trig. Station, and pro-
ceeding thence along a right line towards Maungatapere
Trig. Station to the south-western boundary of Tahora No.
2C 3, Section 2 Block; thence north-westerly along that
boundary and its production to a point in line with the north-
western boundary of S.G. Run 89; thence to and along that
boundary, the north-western boundary of S.G.R. 90, the north-
western boundaries of Sections 2 and 3, Block XII, Moanui
Survey District, Sections 4, 1, and 2, Block IX, and Section 2,
Block V, Motu Survey District, to Pokaikiri Trig. Station;
thence along a right line to Trig. Station 149A; thence to
and along the Whakapauakihi Stream to and down the
Motu River to a point in line with Trig. Station 140 (Pungarehu)
and 139A (Tuanui o te Kahakaha); thence along a right line
passing through said Station 140 to aforesaid Trig.
Station 139A; thence along a right line to Arowhana Trig.
Station, and along a right line towards Kapua Trig. Station
to the western boundary of Huiarua No. 3 Block; thence
along the western and southern boundaries of Huiarua No. 3
Block to the Mata River; thence up the Mata River to the
south-eastern boundary of Section 1, Block VI, Tutamoe
Survey District; thence along the south-eastern boundaries
of Section 1, Block VI, Section 2, Block V, and Section 1,
Block IX, Tutamoe Survey District, to the southernmost
corner of the last-mentioned section; thence along the
north-eastern boundaries of Waipaoa Nos. 2 and 3B to the
Waingaromia River; thence down that river to the south-
western boundary of Section 1, Block VII, Waingaromia
Survey District; thence along that boundary to the public
road intersecting the said Section 1; thence north-easterly
generally along that road to the northernmost corner of S.G.R.
42; thence along the north-eastern and south-eastern
boundaries of the said S.G.R. 42, the north-eastern and south-
eastern boundaries of Lot 1 of S.G.R. 43A to a public road;
thence south-easterly and south-westerly along that road to
the northern boundary of S.G.R. 58; thence along that
boundary to the south-western boundary of Section 1, Block
XVI, Waingaromia Survey District; thence along that
boundary and along the southern and eastern boundaries of
Section 1, Block XIII, Uawa Survey District, to the Pakarae
River; thence down the Pakarae River to the northern
boundary of the Pakarae Block; thence along the northern
and north-eastern boundaries of that block to the sea; thence
southerly generally along the sea-coast to Paritu; thence
along a right line to the confluence of the Hangaroa and
Ruakituri Rivers; thence up the Hangaroa River to the

southern boundary of Tauwharetoi No. 3A Block, along that
boundary and the north-eastern boundaries of Tauwharetoi
No. 3B 1 and 4B Blocks, the north-western boundary of the
last-named block, along the north-eastern and eastern
boundaries generally of Sections 4, 3, and 1, Block IX,
Hangaroa Survey District, to the Bushy Knoll Road; north-
westerly along that road to the Gisborne-Waikaremoana
Road, and westerly along that road to Section 1, Block VIII,
Tuahu Survey District; thence along the south-eastern and
northern boundaries of said Section 1 and along the northern
boundary of S.G.R. 84 to the Ruakituri River, up that river
to its intersection with a right line between Puketapu and
Maungapohatu Trig. Station; thence north-westerly along
that right line to Maungapohatu, the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

LICENSE TO FISH.

The Fisheries Act, 1908, and its Amendments.
THE holder of this license [Name in full], of [Address], [Calling
or occupation], having this day paid the sum of £ , is hereby
authorized to fish with only one rod and line for trout in every
acclimatization district in New Zealand, except in Rotorua
Acclimatization District and Taupo waters, from the
day of , 19 , to the day of , 19 ,
subject to the said Acts and to the regulations made there-
under, and to the regulations for the time being in force in
the East Coast Acclimatization District, and to the local
regulations for the time being in force in other acclimatization
districts.
Dated at , this day of , 19 .
Secretary, East Coast Acclimatization Society.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for Trout-fishing, Nelson Acclimatization Society.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of
April, 1930.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
I N pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him
by the Fisheries Act, 1908, and its amendments, His
Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make
the following regulations for all that part of the Dominion
known as the Nelson Acclimatization District and the waters
thereof, as the same is defined in the First Schedule hereof,
and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall, as from
the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette,
supersede all other regulations for the said district, and such
regulations are hereby revoked.

REGULATIONS.

  1. LICENSES to fish for trout in all the waters within the said
    district may be issued under the hand of the Secretary of
    the Nelson Acclimatization Society, or any one authorized by
    the said Secretary in that behalf, and such license shall
    entitle the person named therein to fish in the said Acclima-
    tization District from the 1st day of October in any year
    to the 30th day of April in the year following, both inclusive,
    subject to the said Acts and any regulations made thereunder
    and in force in the said district, and to these regulations :
    Provided that the Secretary may refuse to issue a license to
    any person who, within the previous two years, has been
    convicted of any breach of the provisions of any Act relating
    to fishing for trout, or of any regulations made thereunder.
  2. The fee to be charged for a license as aforesaid to each
    male person over the age of sixteen years shall be £1, and every
    such license shall be in the form set forth in the Second Schedule
    hereto. Licenses may also be issued to boys attending school
    or under the age of sixteen, or to women, at a reduced fee of
    5s. for each license so issued : Provided that it shall be lawful
    for the said Secretary, or his deputy, in any case where appli-
    cation is made for a license on or after the first day of January
    in any year, to issue a license to any man for the sum of 12s. 6d.,
    but so that such license shall be in force only for the unexpired
    period of the fishing season during which the said license is
    issued. No license shall confer any right of entry upon the
    land of any person without his consent.
  3. The Secretary of the said society may issue day licenses
    to bona fide travellers and strangers not resident within the
    district aforesaid on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. for each day's
    fishing.


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14 April 1930
Fishing Regulations, Trout, Perch, East Coast Acclimatization District
  • F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council

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14 April 1930
Fishing Regulations, Trout, Nelson Acclimatization District
  • BLEDISLOE, Governor-General