August 23, 2018
The Fisheries Management Area 1 policy is a document developed by the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council and it applies to the area between North Cape and the eastern Bay of Plenty. LegaSea is promoting this policy as a way of providing future generations the fishing opportunities and marine resources we so gratefully inherited. Historic […]
August 23, 2018
The Gurnard 2 policy is a document developed by the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council and it applies to the area between East Cape and Wellington. LegaSea is promoting this policy as a way of providing future generations the fishing opportunities and marine resources we so gratefully inherited. Gurnard used to be a staple recreational […]
August 23, 2018
Has the government leased out the area off upper North Island to enable commercial fishers to take sardines and mackerel with no limits? LegaSea comments No. Sardine-Pilchard The sardine we have in New Zealand is commonly called Pilchard. They were bought into the Quota System about 10 years ago. The New Zealand Sport Fishing Council […]
August 23, 2018
LegaSea believes the ‘land-all catch’ policy fails to achieve its primary purpose – that landed commercial catch will equate to what is actually caught at sea. This is a misdirected attempt at curbing the damage inflicted by inshore trawlers. Read more about LegaSea’s land-all catch policy for commercial fishing here and why we are promoting […]
August 23, 2018
A land-all catch policy is variously promoted as a way of reducing recreational fishing activity and related mortality, assuming that once the bag limit is caught the person will stop fishing. There are good reasons why LegaSea does not support a land-all catch policy being applied to recreational fishing, one of them is because there […]
August 23, 2018
A rahui, customary management area, applies in Maunganui Bay, around the wreck Canterbury and Deep Water Cove. Specific restrictions on commercial fishing apply in many parts of the Bay of Islands. Some restrictions apply only to the southern areas of the Bay, others regulations apply to the whole inner Bay of Islands. Specific regulations applying […]
August 23, 2018
The Ministry for Primary Industries answers a range of questions relating to the charter boat reporting scheme, including what species must have their catch reported, why those species were chosen and what areas those reporting requirements apply to. The MPI Charter boat reporting FAQs are here.
August 23, 2018
Prior to modern fishing fisheries were assumed to be at around 100%, or virgin stock size. Industrial fishing reduced many inshore fish stocks to very low levels. A stock size of 40% of the unfished size (B40) is the contemporary estimate of the stock size that will produce the maximum sustainable yield (MSY). B40 is […]
August 23, 2018
There is a small area at the north end of Bream Bay that prohibits purse seine nets. This area runs from Busby Head at the Whangarei Harbour entrance to about half way between Marsden Point and the Ruakaka River mouth. Trawl and Danish seine nets are excluded from a much larger area in the inner […]
June 14, 2018
Yes, commercial scallop dredging is allowed inshore around the Coromandel, but there are bans in some places. There are some closed areas on both the eastern and western side of the Coromandel Peninsula, and around the southern end of Great Barrier Island. There are closures in Opito Bay and Otama on the eastern Coromandel, but […]
