In October 2025, Fisheries NZ proposed removing regulations to allow commercial fishers to keep and sell vulnerable reef fish species including; giant and long-finned boarfish, red pigfish, butterfly and splendid perch, scarlet and sandager’s wrasse, green and banded wrasse, red moki, goatfish, silver drummer, rock cod, kelpfish, black angelfish, marblefish, notch-headed marblefish, painted moki, and toadstool groper.