24 AUGUST NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 3753

Approved at Wellington this 21st day of August 1989.
D. McDOWELL, Director-General of Conservation.

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District Anglers (Otago Acclimatisation District) Notice 1989

Pursuant to section 71 of the Fisheries Act 1983, the Otago Acclimatisation Society hereby gives the following district anglers notice.

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the District Anglers (Otago Acclimatisation District) Notice 1989, and shall come into force on the 1st day of October 1989.

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

3. Open season—(1) Subject to subclauses (2), (3) and (4) of this clause to clause 4 of this notice there shall be an open season for fishing for acclimatised fish from the 1st day of October in any year to the 30th day of April in the following year (both days inclusive).

(2) There shall be an open season for fishing for acclimatised fish from the 1st day of June to the 30th day of September in the same year (both days inclusive) in the Mataura River downstream from the gorge road traffic bridge.

(3) There shall be an open season for fishing for acclimatised fish from the 1st day of October in any year to the 30th day of September in the following year (both days inclusive) except for the first Saturday and Sunday of the game season in May of each year, in the following waters:

(a) The Shag River downstream from the main State Highway 1 road bridge:

(b) The Clutha River downstream from the main State Highway 1 road bridge at Balclutha:

(c) The Taieri River downstream from the main road bridge at Allanton:

(d) Butcher’s Dam:

(e) Phoenix Dam:

(f) Conroy’s Dam:

(g) Poolburn Dam:

(h) Lake Onslow:

(i) Lake Waihola, including the waterways connecting this lake to Lake Waipori and east on those waterways to the railway bridge:

(j) Lake Waipori:

(k) Tomahawk Lagoon:

(l) Lake Roxburgh between the dam wall and the bridge on State Highway 8 at Alexandra:

(m) The Waikouaiti River downstream from the main State Highway 1 road bridge:

(n) The Tokomairiro River downstream from Coal Gully road bridge:

(o) The Owaka River downstream from the Pounawea Road/Newhaven Road bridge:

(p) The Catlins River downstream from the State Highway 92 road bridge:

(q) The Tahakopa River downstream from the Maclennan River confluence:

(r) Hoffman’s Dam:

(s) Coalpit Dam:

(t) Puerua Estuary downstream from the State Highway 92 road bridge.

(u) The Water of Leith downstream from the Anzac Avenue foot bridge.

(4) There shall be an open season for fishing for acclimatised fish from the 1st day of October in any year to the 30th day of September in the following year (both days inclusive) in Lake Dunstan.

(5) No licence holder shall fish for or take an acclimatised fish except during an open season.

4. Closed season—(1) There shall be a closed season in respect of the taking of acclimatised fish from the 1st day of October to the 31st day of October in the same year (both days inclusive) in the Upper Manorburn Dam or in any tributary of Lake Mahinerangi.

(2) There shall be a closed season in respect of the taking of acclimatised fish from the 1st day of October in any year to the 30th day of September in the following year (both days inclusive) in the following waters:

(a) The waters lying between the Roxburgh Dam and a line joining the sites of posts marked “Fishing prohibited above this point” placed on each side of the Clutha River at the outlet of the spillway from the Roxburgh powerhouse;

(b) The waters of the Waipori No. 3 Dam on the Waipori River adjacent to the Waipori township;

(c) The waters of Careys Creek within 100 metres of R. O. Bartlett’s salmon farm diversion structure.

5. Authorised tackle—(1) No licence holder shall fish for or take any acclimatised fish except by using a rod and running line.

(2) Notwithstanding subclause (1) of this clause:

(a) When playing an acclimatised fish, a landing net or gaff may be used to secure or land any such fish;

(b) For keeping acclimatised fish alive a keep net of not more than 1.8 metres in length may be used in the water from which that fish was taken.

(3) No licence holder shall use in fishing for acclimatised fish or have under his or her control more than one assembled rod and running line at any one time.

(4) No licence holder shall fish for acclimatised fish unless he or she is within 15 metres of the rod he or she is using and has the rod under his or her own visual observation.

(5) Subject to subclause (6) of this clause, no licence holder shall troll from a mechanically propelled boat within 200 metres of any person fishing from the shore of a lake or from a riverbank.

(6) No licence holder in fishing for acclimatised fish shall troll from any boat in any river or stream except the Taieri River downstream from the Henley Ferry Bridge, the Clutha River downstream from Balclutha, and the Mataura River downstream from the Mataura Island Bridge, or fish from any boat, canoe, pontoon, or any form of body floatation device in the Mataura River upstream from the Mataura Island Bridge.

(7) No licence holder when fishing for acclimatised fish shall use:

(a) More than 2 lures or baits;

(b) Any bait or lure treated with any medicinal or chemical preparation other than:

(i) In the case of artificial fly, oil used solely to give buoyancy of such flies; and

(ii) In the case of natural baits, a formalin or other preservative preparation;

(c) On or in conjunction with any fly, 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 distance than 13 mm between the point and the nearest part of the shank of the hook;

(d) Any unsportsmanlike device or method.