2374
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 112

4. Bag and size limits—(1) No person shall on any one day take and keep more than 8 trout, irrespective of species, and no person shall continue to fish on any day on which he has already retained 8 trout.

(2) No person shall have any trout in his possession which does not exceed 35 cm in length or, in the case of trout taken from any of the following waters in the district, does not exceed 30 cm in length:

(a) Any river or stream which flows into the Bay of Plenty:

(b) Any of the Tiniroto Lakes:

(c) The Wanganui River and its tributaries:

(d) The Whangaehu River and its tributaries:

(e) The Mohaka River and its tributaries:

(f) The Putere Lakes.

(3) Every person taking a trout of a length less than that specified in subclause (2) of this clause shall, whether it is alive or dead, immediately return it into the water from which it was taken.

(4) For the purpose of subclause (1) of this clause, any person who takes a trout and fails to return that trout immediately into the water from which it was taken shall be deemed to have retained that trout.

5. Fishing in certain waters prohibited—(1) No person, whether a licence holder or not, shall take trout in the following waters:

(a) All streams which flow into Lake Tarawera:

(b) All tributaries of the Utuhina Stream:

(c) The following springs or streams, or parts thereof, which flow into Lake Rotorua:

(i) The Waiohiri Stream and its tributaries:

(ii) The Hamurana Stream and springs upstream from the main-road bridge:

(iii) The Awahou Stream and its tributaries upstream from the main-road bridge:

(iv) The Waiohewa Stream:

(v) The Waingache Stream:

(vi) That part of the Utuhina Stream upstream of the Pukehangi Road bridge:

(vii) The Waikuta Stream:

(d) All springs, streams and their tributaries which flow into or from the following lakes:

(i) Lake Rotoma:

(ii) Lake Rotoehu:

(iii) Lake Rotomahana:

(iv) Lake Rerewhakaaitu:

(v) Lake Okareka:

(vi) Lake Rotoiti, except the Ohau Channel and the Kaituna River.

(2) No person, whether a licence holder or not, shall take trout from any waters in which trout are held in captivity for display, hatching, or other purposes, or from within a distance of 80 metres from such waters or other such distance as defined by landmarks.

(3) No person whether a licence holder or not shall take trout or enter—

(a) Within any protection fences, so designated by a notice thereon or in the vicinity thereof, built about any electrical device erected for the purpose of preventing or controlling the movement of trout; or

(b) If upstream approach within 500 metres or, if downstream approach within 100 metres of any such electrical device.

6. Fishing in close season prohibited—(1) No person shall take trout or in any way injure or disturb trout during the close season.

(2) No person shall, during any close season for the Ohau Channel, take trout from those waters of Lake Rotorua which lead into the Ohau Channel and which are inwardly bounded by landmarks.

7. Fishing prohibited between certain hours—No person shall take trout during the period between the hours of 12 midnight and 5 a.m.

8. Restrictions on methods of fishing—(1) No person shall take trout by any means other than with one rod and running line, or use for the purpose of taking trout—

(a) Any strokehauling or foulhooking gear; or

(b) Any gaff; or

(c) Any spear or similar implement; or

(d) Any hook which has a distance greater than 14 mm between the point and the shank; or

(e) Any lure having attached thereto more than one hook or a hook that is not a single-pointed or single-barbed hook; or

(f) Any net, trap, wire netting, or similar device; or

(g) More than 2 lures; or

(h) Any paravane; or

(i) Any electronic device; or

(j) Any outrigger or similar device; or

(k) Any unsportsmanlike device; or

(l) Subject to this clause, any line incorporating or containing wire, or lead or any other metal.

(2) Nothing in this clause shall forbid the use with artificial fly of a dropper having only one hook (being a single-pointed or single-barbed hook) or the use of a landing net to secure any trout lawfully taken.

(3) Any wire-cored, lead-cored, or metal-cored line may be used by any person fishing in the waters or from the bank of Lake Rotoma or of all those parts of Lake Okataina or Lake Tarawera which lie outside the arc of a circle having a radius of 300 metres around the centre of the mouth or mouths of every stream, spring, or river flowing into or out of either of those lakes, or in or from the bank of that part of Lake Tarawera which lies inside a line, the ends of which are shown by landmarks on the shore, and which is 200 metres from, and parallel to, the shores of Kariri Point and Rangiuru Bay.

(4) No person shall—

(a) Foulhook or attempt to foulhook any trout:

(b) Take trout with a set rod, unless he is fishing from a boat of which he is the sole occupant:

(c) When fishing for trout with a rod and running line from a boat, have in his possession any other assembled rod.

9. Restriction on lures—(1) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, no person shall, in fishing for trout, use—

(a) Any lure containing the feathers of any bird absolutely protected under the Wildlife Act 1953; or

(b) With any lure, any medicated or chemical preparation other than a preparation used solely for the purpose of floating a dry artificial fly; or

(c) Any mollusc, or the freshwater crayfish (koura), or worms, or the creeper, or the huhu or matai grub, or fish roe, or any imitation of any of the things specified in this paragraph:

Provided that the shell of any mollusc may be used in the preparation of an artificial minnow; or

(d) An artificial minnow in any water in which the use of artificial minnow is not prohibited, if the lure (including any weight, whether of metal or any other substance, used in conjunction with the lure to facilitate its casting or sinking) weighs more than 40 grammes:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to any person fishing in the waters or from the bank of Lake Rotoma or of those parts of Lake Okataina or Lake Tarawera which lie outside the arc of a circle having a radius of 300 metres around the centre of the mouth or mouths of every stream, spring, or river flowing into or out of either of those lakes.

(2) No person shall, in fishing for trout, use in any river or water specified in column 1 of the Second Schedule to this notice any lures other than those specified for that river or water in column 2 of that Schedule.

(3) Nothing in this clause shall authorise any person to take trout in any of the waters or from any of the places in which fishing is prohibited by clause 5.

10. Restrictions on use of boats—(1) No person shall take trout from a boat in the following places:

(a) The Ohau Channel, and all those portions of Lakes Rotoiti and Rotorua that are within a radius of 100 metres from the centre of the meeting lines of the Ohau Channel and these lakes:

(b) The Kaituna River from the boom to the landmark approximately 2500 metres downstream:

(c) Within a radius of 50 metres from the mid-point of the meeting line of the Tarawera River and Lake Tarawera:

(d) The Tarawera River from its outlet from Lake Tarawera downstream to the falls situated approximately 2500 metres downstream:

(e) Within a radius of 15 metres of the Wairua Stream mouth on Lake Tarawera:

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