✨ Fishing Regulations
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 76 — 28 JULY 2017
“artificial fly” means any lure of feather, fur, wool or other material of any kind customarily used in the making of artificial flies.
“bait” means:
Natural insect.
Natural spider.
Natural worm or worms.
Natural crustacean.
Natural fish, excluding fish ova, or any portion of a fish, or shellfish (mollusc), except where stated otherwise in the Second Schedule of this notice.
Uncoloured bread dough.
Any scented lure, soft bait and other synthetic imitations with chemical attractant properties, except where stated otherwise in the Second Schedule of this notice.
“bait assembly” means either a hook rigged with a number of baits or a single bait rigged with a number of hooks.
“bait fishing” means to fish for sports fish with bait.
“boat” means any manned flotation device.
“coarse fish” means perch, tench (all New Zealand) and rudd (Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game Region only).
“coarse fishing waters” means named locations where anglers can fish for coarse fish:
(a) with a rod which has either a fixed or running line.
(b) with no restriction on the type or number of baits in use.
(c) with no restriction on the use of preparations to attract fish.
“fly fishing” means to fish for sports fish with fly rod and fly reel and fly line and artificial fly.
“fishing” and “fish” in this notice mean:
the catching, taking or harvesting of sports fish, and includes:
(a) any other activity that may reasonably be expected to result in the catching, taking or harvesting of sports fish.
(b) any attempt to catch, take or harvest sports fish.
(c) any operation in support of, or in preparation for, any activity described in this definition.
“freshwater” means
(a) all waters of rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, lagoons, wetlands, impoundments, canals, channels, watercourses, or other bodies of water whether naturally occurring or artificially made.
(b) all waters of estuaries or coastal lagoons.
(c) all other fresh or estuarine waters where freshwater fish indigenous to or introduced into New Zealand are found.
(d) all waters in the mouth of every river or stream, and the mouth of every river and stream shall be deemed to include every outlet thereof and the seashore between those outlets and the waters of the sea or lying within a distance of 500m from any place where at low tide the waters of a river or stream meet the waters of the sea.
“foul hook” means to hook a sports fish other than from within the mouth.
“landmark” means a black, yellow and white ringed post or buoy.
“length” is the measurement from the tip of the snout to the fork of the tail.
“lure” means any authorised artificial fly or spinner or bait.
“spinner” means any artificial lure other than an artificial fly.
“spin fishing” means to fish for sports fish with a spinner.
“sports fish” means those freshwater fish described in the First Schedule of the Freshwater Fisheries Regulations 1983, namely:
Brown trout.
Rainbow trout.
American brook trout or char.
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