New Zealand Gazette – 2017 – No. 30

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✨ Hunting Regulations

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 30 — 17 MARCH 2017

Species	Season	Bag Limit	Areas
Cock pheasant	6 May to 27 Aug 2017	5	Area B1 and B2
Cock pheasant	6 May to 27 Aug 2017	5	All areas excluding upland game properties with special conditions specified in clause 6 for this Region
Pheasant, both sexes	6 May to 27 Aug 2017	No limit	Upland game properties with special conditions specified in clause 6 for this Region
Cock pheasant	28 Aug to 17 Sep 2017	No limit	Upland game properties with special conditions specified in clause 6 for this Region (junior hunters only)
Red legged partridge	6 May to 27 Aug 2017	No limit	Upland game properties with special conditions specified in clause 6 for this Region

2. Definition of Areas

The following descriptions refer to Local Authority Boundaries described on the Infomap 242B-2 Land Information New Zealand for the Eastern Fish and Game region.

Area A1: Tauranga District, Western Bay of Plenty District, that part of the South Waikato District within the Eastern Fish and Game region and east of State Highway 1, Rotorua District, Kawerau District, Whakatane District and Opotiki District.
Area A2: Those parts of the South Waikato District west of State Highway 1 within the Eastern Fish and Game region, Taupo District and Ruapehu District, which lie within the Eastern Fish and Game region.
Area B1: Gisborne District.
Area B2: That part of Wairoa District within the Eastern Fish and Game region.
Reporoa Area: That area bounded by Waikite Valley Road (Waiotapu) to State Highway 5 to Settlers Road which becomes Broadlands Road to State Highway 1 (Taupo Bypass) to State Highway 30 to Whirinaki Valley Road (Ngakuru) to Waikite Valley Road.

3. Shooting Hours

6.15am to 6.15pm in all areas for all species during their respective seasons.

4. Decoy Limit

No limit.

5. Special Conditions

No person may hunt or kill game birds, as specified, within the Eastern region with any magazine shotgun 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.
No maimai shall impede the use of navigable channels in the Tauranga Harbour, Ohiwa Harbour, Little Waihi Estuary, Lake Aniwhenua and Lake Taupo.
Maimais erected in the Little Waihi Estuary, Lake Aniwhenua, Ohiwa Harbour, Stump and Waihi bays of Lake Taupo must be dismantled and removed within two weeks of the close of the season (ie by 10 September 2017).
Any licensed game bird hunter who has a Department of Conservation permit to take or kill wildlife for the

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🌾 Eastern Fish and Game Region Hunting Regulations (continued from previous page)

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