New Zealand Gazette – 2017 – No. 30

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✨ Fish and Game Hunting Regulations



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 30 — 17 MARCH 2017

DP 447258, Lot 6 DP 447258.

  1. Where hunting takes place in any specified property defined in this notice, no person shall have in that
    person’s possession outside that specified property, any game taken from that specified property, unless
    affixed to the game is a label with the name of the specified property where that game was taken or killed
    written legibly on it, and the additional words on the label “for personal consumption, not for sale or profit”
    written legibly on it.

  2. A person must not clip the wings of a bird released on any specified property after the bird is eight weeks
    old.

  3. A person must not clip the beak of any bird released on any specified property at any time.

  4. A person must not hunt:

a. a pheasant before it is 18 weeks old;

b. a red legged partridge before it is 16 weeks old.

  1. A person must not hunt waterfowl on specified property on the same day that a pheasant or red legged
    partridge hunt takes place on that property.

  2. The unlimited daily bag for any specified property shall only apply when at least 400 pheasants and/or red
    legged partridges have been released on to that specified property within five months of the opening day of
    the season; otherwise the daily bag limit shall be three birds.

  3. The property owner or lessee must keep a register of:

a. the names and addresses of hunters and all other persons who take game from that property;

b. the number and type of birds taken by those persons;

c. the description of that person’s role in the hunting and killing of game birds on that day.

Eastern Fish and Game Region

1. Game That May be Hunted or Killed—Duration of 2017/2018 Season

Species Season Duration (dates inclusive) Daily Bag Limit Hunting Area
Grey/mallard duck 6 May to 18 Jun 2017 8 All areas except the Reporoa Area
6 May to 5 Jun 2017 4 The Reporoa Area
NZ shoveler duck 6 May to 5 Jun 2017 2 All areas
Paradise shelduck 6 May to 2 Jul 2017 6 Area A1, A2
6 May to 2 Jul 2017 10 Area B2 and that part of B1, which lies south of the true right bank of the Uawa River Mouth, Tolaga Bay
6 May to 16 Jul 2017 20 That part of B1, which lies north of the true right bank of the Uawa River Mouth, Tolaga Bay
Pukeko 6 May to 27 Aug 2017 10 All areas
Black swan 6 May to 27 Aug 2017 No limit Area A1
6 May to 2 Jul 2017 2 Area A2
Closed season 0 Area B1 and B2
Bobwhite (Virginian) quail 6 May to 27 Aug 2017 No limit All areas
Brown quail 6 May to 27 Aug 2017 5 All areas
California quail 6 May to 27 Aug 2017 No limit Area A1 and A2

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🌾 Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game Region Hunting Details (continued from previous page)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Game hunting, Species, Bag limits, Season duration, Auckland/Waikato

🌾 Eastern Fish and Game Region Hunting Regulations

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Game hunting, Species, Bag limits, Season duration, Eastern Region