21 DECEMBER
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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(c) Any lure or bait other than artificial fly in the following waters
and all their tributaries:

Akatarawa, above the Karapoti Road ford:
Hautapu, above the Ngawaka Road Bridge:
Horokiri (also known as Horokiwí):
Kahuterawa:
South Karori:
Kiwitea:
Kopuaranga:
Makakahi, above the road bridge at Ekctehuna:
Makara:
Makuri, above the township bridge:
Mangahao, above the lower dam:
Mangaone (a tributary of the Tiraumea):
Mangaroa:
Mangatainoka, above the road bridge on the Hamua-
Hukonui road:
Mangatari:
Mangawheraki:
Ohau, above the railway bridge:
Otaki, above the Forks:
Porirua, above the first bridge above Porirua Station:
Tauweru, above the Te Whiti Bridge:
Tokomaru:
Waikanae, above the railway bridge:
Waikawa, above the railway bridge:
Wainuiomata:
Waipoua, upstream from Patons Bush bridge and down-
stream from its confluence with the Ruamahanga
River:
Waitohu.

11. Daily limit bag—(1) No person shall on any one day take, kill
    or have in possession more than 12 trout or salmon of which not
    more than a total of four may be taken from the Hutt or Wainui-
    omata Rivers, including all tributaries of those rivers.
    (2) No person shall continue to fish for trout or salmon on any
    day on which he has already taken or killed 12 trout or salmon.
    (3) It shall be permissible to make up the difference between a
    lesser limit bag prescribed in one place and a higher limit bag pre-
    scribed in another place.

Approved at Wellington this 16th day of December 1983.

M. J. BELGRAVE,
Assistant Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries.

District Anglers Notice Marlborough and Nelson Acclimatisation
Districts

PURSUANT to section 71 of the Fisheries Act 1983, the Marlborough
and Nelson Acclimatisation Societies hereby give the following
District Anglers Notice.

NOTICE

1. Title and commencement—This notice may be cited as the Dis-
   trict Anglers (Marlborough and Nelson Acclimatisation Districts)
   Notice 1983, and shall come into force on 1 January 1984.

2. Interpretation—Words and expressions in this notice which are
   defined in the Fisheries Act 1983 or the Freshwater Fisheries Re-
   gulations 1983 have the meanings so defined.

3. Open season—Fishing for acclimatised fish by licence holders
   shall be permitted during the period from the 1st day of October
   in any year to the 30th day of April in the following year (both
   days inclusive), provided that:

(a) There shall be no close season in the Cobb Reservoir, the
Waimoa or Wairoa Rivers downstream from the conflu-
ence with the Lee River, the Aorere River downstream
from the road bridge at Rockville, the Takaka River
downstream from the road at Uruwhenua, and the Motueka
River downstream from the road bridge at Alexander Bluff:
(b) There shall be an open season commencing on the 1st day of
May and ending with the 31st day of August in the same
year in the Awarere River, the Clarence River downstream
from the Glen Alton Bridge, the Pelorus River down-
stream from its confluence with the Rai River, Lakes
Rotoiti and Rotoroa, and the Wairau River downstream
from its confluence with Wash Creek:
(c) No person shall fish from acclimatised fish in Lake Daniels
during the month of October, or in the Brook Stream in
Nelson City at any time.

4. Authorised tackle—(1) Every person shall fish for, take or kill
   acclimatised fish using only a rod and running line provided that for:

(a) playing an acclimatised fish, a landing net or gaff may be used
to secure or land any such fish;
(b) taking small indigenous fish for bait in angling, a bait net not
over 1.8 metres in length may be used;
(c) keeping alive acclimatised fish lawfully taken with rod and
line in the same water, a keep net not over 1.8 metres in
length may be used.

(2) No person shall use in fishing for acclimatised fish with a rod and line
under his control more than one assembled rod and running line
at any one time.

(3) No person shall fish for acclimatised fish with a rod and line
unless he is in actual attendance within 15 metres of the rod and
has the rod under his own visual observation.

5. Prohibition on unauthorised fishing tackle, etc.—No person
   shall, when fishing for acclimatised fish or when in possession of
   an assembled fishing rod and gear suitable for fishing for accli-
   matised fish, have in his possession or under his control or convey
   or cause to be conveyed to the vicinity of any place where he is
   fishing or proposes to fish, any paravane, any stroke-hauling or foul-
   hooking gear, any spear, any narcotic or poisonous substance or
   liquid injurious to fish.

6. Authorised use of nets—(1) No person shall use or cause to be
   used for any purposes a net of any description, except as provided
   for in clause 4 of this notice, except:

(a) A whitebait net;
(b) any net used for taking fish for the purposes of management
or scientific investigations pursuant to an authority granted
pursuant to section 72 of the Act.

provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with a
breach of this notice if he proves that he was netting for indigenous
fish in accordance with the provisions of any regulations or notices
in that behalf for the time being in force.

7. Prohibition on possession or control of spear gun—(1) No per-
   son shall, when taking any acclimatised fish or when in possession
   of any acclimatised fish, have in his possession or under his control
   any spear gun or any pointed missile (other than a bullet) which is
   propelled by means of any mechanical or explosive device.

(2) Where any person is charged with an offence under sub-
paragraph (1) of this clause, it shall be a defence to the charge if the
defendant proves that the spear gun or pointed missile in his pos-
session or under his control was not used in taking the acclimatised
fish.

(3) In this clause the term “explosive” has the same meaning as
in the Explosives Act 1957.

8. No disturbance or possession—No person shall otherwise than
   in accordance with this notice intentionally disturb or damage the
   spawning redds or the eggs or larvae of acclimatised fish or have
   in his possession the eggs or larvae of acclimatised fish.

9. Authorised lures and baits—No person shall fish for acclima-
   tised fish with any bait or lures other than artificial or natural fly,
   insect, worm, crustacea, minnow, fish (excluding fish ova or any
   portion of a fish or any shellfish (mollusca)) or uncoloured bread
   dough.

10. Authorised fishing gear—(1) No person when fishing for accli-
    matised fish shall use—

(a) more than 2 lures or baits;
(b) any lead or weight attached below or so as to hang below any
lure or bait;
(c) in any water in which only artificial fly is permitted, any lead
or weight other than the necessary weight of line, cast and
fly;
(d) any artificial fly having more than one hook or having a mul-
tiple hook;
(e) any bait or lure treated with any medicinal or chemical prepa-
ration other than—

(i) In the case of the artificial fly, oil used soley to give
buoyancy to such flies; and
(ii) In the case of natural baits, a formalin or other pre-
servative preparation;

(f) any wire, either plain or twisted, or any gimp trace or cast of
a greater thickness than 0.82 mm;
(g) any wire or gimp trace or cast of a greater length than 1.8
metres;
(h) on or in conjunction with any spoonbait, minnow, or other
lure any double or treble hook or other fixed multiple
assembly of hooks any one hook of which has a greater