New Zealand fisheries regulations

New Zealand fisheries regulations cover the world's sixth-largest EEZ.
==Specific regulations==
===16 December 2005 ===
*Changes to amateur fishing regulations will come into effect on 16 December:
** divers are allowed to take extra bag limits of scallops and dredge oysters for each of up to two safety people on board a fishing vessel;
** retaining regulations that mean scallops taken by divers must be counted and measured at the first reasonable opportunity;
** that the use of bobs and ring pots in taking crayfish be allowed, and that scoop nets (landing nets) be allowed to be used to secure fish taken lawfully by any method;
** the recreational daily bag limit of 20 for Coromandel scallops be retained;
** that the restrictions around the use or possession of underwater breathing apparatus when taking mussels be removed; however, the current restrictions for paua will be retained; and
** that scallops and dredge oysters be allowed to be shucked and eaten while on board a vessel, so long as the fish eaten form part of a fisher’s daily bag limit.
===30 September 2006===
====Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Amendment Notice (No 2) 2006 (SR2006/302)====
These regulations, which came into force on 30 September 2006, amended the Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Notice 1986. The amendments varied the total allowable commercial catch for certain species in certain quota management areas.
====Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Amendment Notice (No 3) 2006 (SR2006/303)====
These regulations, which came into force on 30 September 2006, amended the Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Notice 1986. The amendment varied the total allowable commercial catch for orange roughy in quota management areas 1, 8, and 9 (Auckland (East), Auckland (West), and Central (Egmont) (combined) by reducing it from 1400 to 800 greenweight tonnes.
====Fisheries (Interim and Annual Deemed Values) Amendment Notice (No 3) 2006 (SR2006/304)====
These regulations, which came into force on 30 September 2006, amended the Fisheries (Interim and Annual Deemed Values) Notice 2003 by:
* setting interim and annual deemed values for deepwater clam and knobbed whelk stocks, which enter the quota management system on 1 October 2006:
* altering the interim and annual deemed values for 18 other existing stocks.
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