✨ Game Hunting Regulations
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 22 — 11 MARCH 2015
| Dates | Bag Limit | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep to 28 Sep 2015 | No limit | Tui Ridge upland game property with special conditions specified in clause 6 for this region (junior hunters only) |
| Pheasant, both sexes | 2 May to 30 Aug 2015 | No limit |
| Red-legged partridge | 2 May to 30 Aug 2015 | 10 |
| 2 May to 30 Aug 2015 | No limit | |
| 2 Apr to 6 May 2016 | No limit |
2. Shooting Hours
6.30am to 6.30pm.
3. Decoy Limit
No limit, except on Lake Waikare – a total decoy limit of 50 decoys per stand and no decoys to be placed within 50 metres of those placed by another hunter.
4. Special Conditions
(1) From 2 May to 1 June 2015 inclusive, no person may use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Waikare, any drifting or temporarily moored floating stand or any stand, hide or maimai which is permanently fixed to the lake bed except within 180 metres of the outer margin of the lake or the shoreline of Motu Nuia Island (Grape Island).
(2) No person may use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Ngaroto any fixed stand, pontoon, hide or maimai except within 85 metres of the margin of the lake.
(3) No person may use or cause to be used for the hunting or killing of game on Lake Rotokauri any fixed stand, pontoon, hide or maimai on any open water of the lake.
(4) No person may wilfully leave on the hunting ground any game bird(s) shot or parts of any game birds shot.
(5) No person may herd or drive waterfowl for the purpose of hunting or killing them.
(6) No person may shoot game from any unmoored boat on the Waikato River north of the boat ramp at the confluence of the Mangawara Stream and the Waikato River at Taupiri on any of the first three days or the second weekend of the open season.
(7) No person may possess a firearm in or on any unmoored vessel, except a rowboat, unless the firearm is dismantled or secured in a case, gunslip or other secure compartment, except when in use to retrieve wounded game.
(8) On public land, the last tagged owner must remove any maimai not tagged up for two years from the date of the last mark-up.
(9) No person may hunt or kill game of the family Anatidae (waterfowl) in all the area contained within a distance of 100 metres from the margins of any waters together with the area covered by those waters where food has been cast, thrown, placed or planted any time during the period 2 April to 28 June 2015 inclusive.
(10) No person may hunt or kill game birds, as specified, within the Auckland/Waikato region with any magazine shotgun of a calibre 10 gauge or less unless the shotgun:
(a) has a magazine of any type adjusted with a one piece filler which is incapable of removal without disassembling the gun; or
(b) the magazine is pinned in accordance with Regulations made under this Act;
so that the magazine shotgun is incapable of holding more than two shells in the magazine, with no more than three shells in the magazine and chamber combined, at any one time.
(11) Any licensed game bird hunter who has a Department of Conservation permit to take or kill wildlife for the purpose of hawking may hunt with an Australasian Harrier (Circus approximans) to take pukeko. This is subject to the season length and bag limit for pukeko in clause 1 of this notice for this region and subject to any conditions imposed by the Director-General of Conservation under such a permit.
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