New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

7C Set netting prohibited within 2 miles of Cape Runaway coast

• No commercial fisher shall use any set net within these waters defined by a line commencing at the mean high-water mark at Potikirua Point (at 37°32.53′S and 178°04.91′E); then proceeding in a straight line in a northerly direction to a position approximately 2 nautical miles from the point of commencement at 37 degrees 30.6′S and 178 degrees 4.8′E; then in a generally westerly direction by a line every point of which is 2 nautical miles from the mean high-water mark to a point approximately 2 nautical miles north of Cape Runaway (at 37°30.3′S and 177°59′E); then in a straight line in a southerly direction to the mean high-water mark at Cape Runaway (at approximately 37°32.3′S and 177°59′E); and then proceeding along the line of the mean high-water mark in a generally easterly direction to the point of commencement.

  Regulations 7A, 7B, and 7C were inserted, as from 23 October 1996, by regulation 4 Fisheries (Central Area Commercial Fishing) Regulations 1986, Amendment No 10.

  Regulation 7C: amended, on 1 October 2009, by regulation 11(a) of the Fisheries (Central Area Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2009 (SR 2009/241).

  Regulation 7C: amended, on 1 October 2009, by regulation 11(b) of the Fisheries (Central Area Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2009 (SR 2009/241).

  Regulations 7 to 10 were amended, as from 1 October 2001, by regulation 4 Fisheries (Central Area Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2001 (SR 2001/261) by substituting the words “commercial fisher” for the words “commercial fisherman” wherever they appear.