New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 126

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✨ Fish and Game Regulations

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 126

Reference to Description: Gazette, No 83 of 24 May 1990, at page 1861

DEFINITIONS
The North Canterbury Fish and Game Region is divided into two zones:

“Eastern Zone”: The area to the east of a line extending from the white posts on the Rakaia River (near the Coleridge Power Station), to the white post at Woodstock on the Waimakariri River, to the Oxford-Glentui Road Bridge on the Ashley River, to the junction of the Hurunui River with the South Branch, to the junction of the Waiau and Hope Rivers; and excluding Lake Rubicon.

“Western Zone”: The area to the west of the eastern zone plus Lake Rubicon.

“Flyfishing” in the North Canterbury Region means to fish for sports fish with fly rod and fly reel and fly line and artificial fly but with no additional weight to facilitate casting

OPEN SEASON
Except as closed under 3.1 or restricted elsewhere in the Notice.

2.1 Main Season

Location	Open Season
Rakaia River in the eastern zone	All year
Waimakariri River in the eastern zone	All year
Ashley River in the eastern zone	All year
Hurunui River in the eastern zone	All year
Waiau River in the eastern zone	All year
Lake Forsyth	All year
Waiarewa and Okuti Rivers downstream from the road bridge over each river on the Little River-Te Oka Bay Road	All year
Selwyn River from the Upper Selwyn Huts to Lake Ellesmere	All year
Halswell River downstream of the of the Seabridge Road Bridge	All Year
Halswell Canal downstream of the Duck Pond Road Bridge	All Year
Avon River	All year
Heathcote River	All year
Cam River downstream from the motorway bridge	All year
South Branch of the Waimakariri River downstream from the Dickies Road Bridge	All year
Styx River downstream from the Marshlands Road Bridge	All year
Monopolies Pond, near Woodford Glen	All Year
Rotokohatu Lake	All Year
Kaiapoi Lakes	All Year
Kaiapoi River downstream of the Williams Street Bridge	All year
Kaiapoi River upstream of the Williams Street Bridge	1 October to 31 March
All other rivers and lakes in the eastern zone	1 October to 30 April