Nabis Update: 28 July 2010

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New data for July 2010...

 

Updated and new data on the site: 

 

  • NEW Hoki management areas
  • NEW Hoki substock areas
  • NEW Foreign fishing vessel regulations

 

  • UPDATED rohe moana - Kawhia Harbour
  • UPDATED mätaitai - 5 new areas in the South Island
  • UPDATED AND RENAMED Iwi fisheries protocol area (used to be Deed of Settlement areas) - Waikato-Tainui Accord added

  

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 New data

Hoki Management Areas

These areas are where there is high abundance of juvenile Hoki.

The management areas are not official, they are an industry driven management initiative with restrictions on trawling in place.   There are four areas - Cook Strait, Mernoo Bank, Canterbury Banks, Puysegur Bank.

 

Below are three of the 4 areas: 

Hoki management areas in central New Zealand waters. 

 

Hoki Substock Areas

These are unofficial administration areas which split the New Zealand Hoki stock into an east and west portion.  There are voluntary catch limits set by industry and the Ministry of Fisheries within each of the areas to better manage the Hoki stock.

 

The Hoki Substock boundaries split the HOK1 Quota Management Area into 2 substocks.  Here they are shown with Hoki Management Areas:

Hoki east and west sub stock boundaries. 

 

Commercial Foreign Fishing Vessel Regulations

Restrictions on commercial fishing by foreign vessels within New Zealand waters.  These areas are defined in the Fisheries (Foreign Fishing Vessel) Regulations 2001.  There are three types of fishing affected by the regulations:

  • trawling and bottom-lining
  • squid jigging
  • fishing under highly migratory species license

 

Find the foreign fishing vessel regulations map under MANAGEMENT>Fisheries Restrictions>Commercial Restrictions:

 Commercial foreign fishing vessel regulations in New Zealand waters.

 

New Rohe Moana for Kawhia Harbour

Ngäti Hikairo, Ngäti Mahuta and Ngäti Maniapoto Iwi now have a gazetted rohe moana covering Kawhia harbour.

Rohe moana in Kawhia Harbour.

New Mätaitai Reserves down south

Five new mätaitai reserves have been gazetted.  Shown below are Horomamae and Kaihuka to the south east of Stewart Island.  Also gazetted are: Oreti (Invercargill), Pikomamaku (Muttonbird Islands) and Wairewa/Lake Forsyth.

 

Mataitai reserves down south. 

Iwi Fisheries Protocol Areas updated

These have been renamed from 'Deed of Settlement Areas'.  The lineage document has been updated to include more information about this map and the areas themselves: Iwi Fisheries Protocol Areas Lineage.pdf. 

 

The Waikato-Tainui Accord has been added to this map layer:

Iwi fisheries protocol areas.

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