✨ Game Bird Hunting Regulations
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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 62
19 MARCH 2008
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Guns of a Calibre Less Than 12 Gauge and Muzzle Loaders Exempt in Relation to Use of Lead Shot
Hunters may continue to use lead shot in guns of a calibre less than 12 gauge or muzzle loaders for the 2008 season. This exemption will be reviewed before the 2009 game bird hunting season. No exemptions for any breach loading 12 gauge or greater is to be provided for waterfowl hunting.
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Lead Shot Exemption for Molesworth/St James Organised Hunts to Control Canada Geese
The use of lead shot within 200 metres of open water by hunters participating in the Fish & Game New Zealand organised Molesworth/St James hunts to control Canada geese will be permitted during the 2008-09 Game Bird Season. The lead shot exemption only applies to the hunting of Canada geese on Fish & Game-organised hunts. Outside of these organised hunts to control Canada goose numbers, the national lead shot ban applies.
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Camouflaged Rowboats
A person⁶ may hunt or kill game within the following Fish and Game Regions, from unmoored camouflaged rowboats, subject to the excluded periods for some regions specified below.
Fish and Game Regions of:
Nelson/Marlborough
Northland
Otago
Southland
Taranaki
West Coast
Auckland/Waikato – excluding 3 and 4 May 2008
Central South Island – excluding 3 and 4 May 2008
Eastern – excluding 3 and 4 May 2008
Hawke’s Bay – excluding 3 and 4 May 2008
North Canterbury – excluding 3 and 11 May 2008
Wellington – excluding 3 and 4 May 2008
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Registered Game Preserves
Game preserves provide opportunities for upland game hunting on a commercial basis. Fish & Game New Zealand recognises that they do not involve the hunting of the wild game resource, but rather they raise and/or release all the birds that are available for hunting. They increase the available hunting opportunities in several ways, both on and adjacent to the preserve, and they do so without using either birds or land that would otherwise have been freely publicly available.
In order to ensure that they meet legal and ethical requirements, Fish & Game New Zealand requires that all game preserves be approved and licensed to ensure the following results:
a) The legal and boundary descriptions of all game preserve areas are fully defined.
b) Hunting on game preserves is in accord with the conditions specified in this Gazette Notice.
c) There is no waterfowl hunting commercially available on game preserves, or anywhere else.
d) Management of game birds and hunting on game preserves complies with an agreed code of conduct.
e) All hunters are licensed by Fish & Game New Zealand.
⁶ Section 18(1)(f)(vi) of the Wildlife Act 1953
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🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesGame Bird Hunting, Bag Limits, Baiting, Magazine Shotguns, Lead Shot Prohibition, Fish and Game Regions
🌾 Guns of a Calibre Less Than 12 Gauge and Muzzle Loaders Exempt in Relation to Use of Lead Shot
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🌾 Lead Shot Exemption for Molesworth/St James Organised Hunts to Control Canada Geese
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🌾 Camouflaged Rowboats
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