New Zealand Gazette – 2007 – No. 94

Page 2474

✨ Fishing Regulations



2474 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 94 24 AUGUST 2007

2.2 Nets and gaffs:

2.2.1 When playing a sports fish, a landing net may be used to secure or land that fish.

2.2.2 For keeping coarse fish alive, a keep net may be used in the water from which the fish was caught.

2.2.3 When playing a salmon, a gaff may be used to secure or land that salmon in the Otago region only.

2.3 No licence holder when fishing for sports fish shall:

2.3.1 Use more than 1 assembled rod and running line.

2.3.2 Use more than 3 artificial flies or spinners.

2.3.3 Use more than 1 bait assembly.

2.3.4 Be more than 15m from the rod being used.

2.3.5 Use any lure treated with any chemical preparation other than that used solely to control the buoyancy of an artificial fly.

2.3.6 Use any preparation to attract fish except when fishing for coarse fish in coarse fishing waters.

3. FOUL HOOKING OF FISH

3.1 No licence holder shall attempt to foul hook any sports fish.

3.2 Any licence holder who foul hooks a sports fish shall return it immediately to the water with as little injury as possible.

4. FISH LENGTH

Every licence holder who catches a sports fish which does not exceed the specified minimum length, or does exceed the specified maximum length, shall immediately return it with as little injury as possible into the water from which it was taken.

5. OPEN SEASON

No licence holder shall fish for any sports fish except during an open season.

6. DAILY LIMIT BAGS

6.1 No licence holder shall continue to fish for a particular species of sports fish on any day in which he or she has already killed the limit bag for that species.

6.2 It shall be permissible to make up the difference between a lesser limit bag prescribed in one place and a higher limit bag prescribed in another.

7. AUTHORISED LURES

Authorised lures (subject to any regional restrictions specified in the Second Schedule) are:

  • Artificial fly
  • Spinner
  • Bait


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🌾 Anglers Notice for Fish and Game Regions (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Anglers, Fishing, Fish and Game Regions, Regulations, Conservation Act 1987, Freshwater Fisheries Regulations 1983