These regulations, which come into force on 2 December 2024, amend the Fisheries (Electronic Monitoring on Vessels) Regulations 2017 (the principal regulations).

The principal regulations require the installation and use of electronic monitoring equipment on fishing vessels that use specified fishing methods (monitored fishing). Those vessels are required to operate video cameras, record fishing and related activities, and provide footage to the chief executive of the Ministry for Primary Industries.

The principal regulations are yet to apply to monitored fishing using bottom longlining or trawling, or set netting, purse seining, or Danish seining. These regulations delay the application of the principal regulations to those fishing methods by 3 months.