FISHING REGULATIONS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 290, 2 April 1941, Page 7

FISHING REGULATIONS

LATEST NOTIFICATION BOUNDARIES DEFINED The Inspector ->f Fisheries at Whakatanc, Captain B. Wheelock. has received oil'icial notification of regulations governing fishing m waters near Whakatanc, these 1 [intendments having been made on April 10, 1940, but hitherto not forwarded to Captain Wheelock. The amendments read as follows: — 1. These regulations may be cited as the Sea-fisheries Regulations 1939, Amendment No, 3. 2. These regulations shall be read together with and form part of the Sea-fisheries Regulations 1939 (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations). 3. These regulations shnil come into force on the day following notification thereof in the Gazette. 4. The principal regulations are amended by inserting therein, next following Regulation 14 of Part VI thereof, the following additional regulation : — "(14A) The master or owner of any registered fishing boat who does not renew the half-yearly or yearly license for his fishing boat shall, within one month after date of expiry of any such license, remove from such fishing boat all registered fishing boat marks and numbers" 5. Subparagraph (iii) (d) of paragraph 19 of 'Regulation 9 of Part IX of the principal regulations is revoked, and the following subparagraph substituted :— "(iii) The waters described in subparagraph (b) of paragraph 19 of this regulation, but excluding therefrom— "(a) The waters within a distance of two nautical mile.*? from lowwater mark of the shove that extends from a point on the coast two miles westward of Kohi Point to a point on the coast two miles eastward from the north-easternmost point of the western entrance to Ohiwa 'River:

"(b) The waters of Opotiki. Harbour and that area of the sea within the arc of r circle having a radius of two nautical miles from the north-easternmost point of the western entrance to the Opotiki River." 6. The principal regulations are amended by inserting therein, next following Regulation 9 of Part IX thereof, the following additional regulations :— "(9A) (1) No person shall use for fishing in the waters described in clause (2) of this regulation any net that is hauled by engine power or by any other mechanical device or by any method other than manual labour. "(2) The waters referred to in clause 1 of this regulation are the following :— "(a) All fresh or brackish waters, lakes or lagoons : "(b) All estuaries or river mouths in the Dominion, but excluding therefrom all those waters within the area comprising Lyttelton Harbour and adjacent waters within a straight line drawn from the lighthouse on Godley Head to Wakaroa Point on the eastern side of Pigeon Bay. "(3) For the purpose of this, regulation the estuary or mouth of any river or stream shall be deemed to include every outlet thereof and the sea shore between such outlets and the waters of the sea or anj l ' harbour lying within a distance of 500 yards from any place where at low tide the waters of a river or stream meet the waters of the sea or any harbour."