5FTaking fish without quota

5F Taking fish without quota

5F Taking fish without quota

(1) For the purposes of section 68 (6A) of the Act, it is a condition of a spanner crab northern zone endorsement and a spanner crab southern zone endorsement that the endorsement holder does not take spanner crab (Ranina ranina) in the fishery unless the endorsement holder has quota for that species.

Note—

It is also an offence under section 40S of the Act for a shareholder to take fish, or use a fishing method, or to cause or permit an agent to do so, in contravention of the shareholder’s quota.

(1A) For the purposes of section 68 (6A) of the Act, it is a condition of a line fishing eastern zone endorsement that the endorsement holder does not take any of the following species in the fishery unless the endorsement holder has quota for that species—

(a) bass grouper (Polyprion americanus),

(b) blue-eye trevalla (Hyperoglyphe antarctica),

(c) gemfish (Rexea solandri),

(d) hapuku (Polyprion oxygeneios),

(e) pink ling (Genypterus blacodes).

(1B) For the purposes of section 68 (6A) of the Act, it is a condition of the following endorsements that the endorsement holder does not take bigeye ocean perch (Helicolenus barathri) in the fishery unless the endorsement holder has quota for bigeye ocean perch—

(a) line fishing eastern zone,

(b) line fishing western zone,

(c) demersal fish trap.

(2) For the purposes of section 65 of the Act, contravention of this clause is an offence.