29Spanner crab net

29 Spanner crab net

29 Spanner crab net

(1) It is lawful for a person to use a net for taking spanner crabs in the waters specified in the Table to this clause if the net complies with the description as set out in that Table and the following conditions are complied with—

(a) the net is used only as a hand implement and only by the method of lowering the net into the water and then drawing the net vertically to the surface,

(b) a person does not use more than 1 spanner crab net at any one time,

(c) the net is not used unless its position is indicated by a buoy that—

(i) is moored so as to be positioned above the net, and

(ii) measures not less than 100 mm in all dimensions, and

(iii) has a height above the water of not less than 50 mm, and

(iv) has a weight of not less than 50 grams suspended not less than 1 metre under the buoy so that no rope is floating on the surface of the water, and

(v) displays the letters “SN” and the initial of the first name, surname, year of birth and residential postcode of the person using the net, in clearly visible letters that are not less than 15 mm in height and are of a colour that contrasts with that of the buoy.

(2) This clause does not apply to or in respect of the holder of an endorsement in the ocean trap and line fishery when taking fish for sale in that fishery.

Note.

See the Fisheries Management (Ocean Trap and Line Share Management Plan) Regulation 2006 in relation to the use of spanner crab nets in the ocean trap and line fishery.

(3) For the purposes of this Regulation or any other instrument under the Act, a net described in this clause may be referred to as a spanner crab net.

Table

| Waters—Ocean waters north of Korogoro Point (Hat Head).Description of net: netting attached to a rigid rectangular frame not exceeding 1.6 metres in length and 1 metre in width; netting not capable of extending more than 0.1 metre beneath the frame when the frame is suspended in a horizontal position; no more than 2 layers of netting. |