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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 69

3 APRIL 2008

5. Use of streamer line required during setting of bottom longlines—A streamer line must be used on vessels 7 metres or
   greater in overall length during the setting of bottom longlines, in accordance with clause 6 of this notice.

6. Streamer line specifications—(1) For vessels over 20 metres in overall length, the streamer line must meet the following
   specifications:

(a) The streamer line must be attached to the vessel so that when deployed the baits are protected by the streamer line,
even in cross wind;

(b) the streamer line must be a minimum of 150 metres in length;

(c) the streamer line must achieve a minimum aerial extent of 50 metres;

(d) streamers must be brightly coloured;

(e) streamers must be spaced at a maximum of 5 metres apart, beginning not more than 5 metres from the stern of the
vessel and extending along the full aerial extent of the line;

(f) when deployed, each of the streamers must reach the sea surface in the absence of wind and swell. Streamer length will
therefore vary depending on the height of their attachment point above the water; and

(g) the streamer line must be suspended from a point on the vessel at least 5 metres above the water in the absence of
swell.

(2) For vessels 7 metres–20 metres in overall length, the streamer line must meet the following specifications:

(a) The streamer line must achieve a minimum aerial extent of 50 metres;

(b) streamers must be brightly coloured;

(c) streamers must be spaced at a maximum of 5 metres apart, beginning not more than 5 metres from the stern of the
vessel and extending along the full aerial extent of the line;

(d) when deployed, each of the streamers must reach the sea surface in the absence of wind and swell. Streamer length will
therefore vary depending on the height of their attachment point above the water; and

(e) the streamer line must be suspended from a point on the vessel at least 5 metres above the water in the absence of swell.

(3) The specifications in subclauses (1) and (2) do not apply to additional or secondary seabird scaring devices fishers may
choose to use (such as a second tori or streamer line).

7. Restrictions on use of bottom longlines—No commercial fisher may set bottom longlines to take fish, aquatic life, or
   seaweed between the hours of 0.5 hours before nautical dawn and 0.5 hours after nautical dusk, unless line weighting is
   employed in accordance with clause 8 of this notice.

8. Line weighting—(1) For the purposes of clause 7, lines must be:

(a) an integrated weighted line with a lead core of at least 50g/m; or

(b) when externally weighted gear is used and the hook-bearing line is 3.5 millimetres or greater in diameter, every
60 metres of hook-bearing line must have at least 4 kilograms of metal weight or 5 kilograms of non-metal weight
attached; or

(c) when externally weighted gear is used and the hook-bearing line is less than 3.5 millimetres in diameter, every
60 metres of hook-bearing line must have at least 0.7 kilogram of weight attached.

(2) Regardless of the type of line weighting used under clause 8(1):

(a) any rope or line used to attach weights to the hook-bearing line must not be longer than 20 metres; and

(b) no more than 3 floats (up to 150 millimetres in diameter) may be attached to the hook-bearing line for every 60 metres
of line, unless an additional 1 kilogram weight is added to the line per additional float; and

(c) floats greater than 150 millimetres in diameter are not permitted to be attached to the hook bearing line.

(d) When a separate rope or line is not used to attach a marker buoy to the hook-bearing line, and a marker buoy is
attached directly, no hooks may be attached to the line within 30 metres on either side of the marker buoy.

9. Restriction of offal or fish discharge while setting and hauling bottom longlines—(1) No person may discharge offal
   or fish during setting of bottom longlines.

(2) Offal or fish may be discharged during the hauling of bottom longlines provided it is discharged from the side of the vessel
that is opposite to the side on which the hauling station is located.

(3) Subclause (1) does not apply to:

(a) fish that are legally undersize; or

(b) fish that are listed on the Sixth Schedule of the Fisheries Act 1996 and that are likely to survive.

10. Revocation—The Fisheries (Seabird Sustainability Measures—Bottom Longlines) Notice 2008 (No. F430)* is revoked.

11. The Schedule—(1) The Schedule provides further guidelines on the design and deployment of streamer lines as seabird
    scaring devices.