DANISH SEINING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 May 1939, Page 5

DANISH SEINING

NEW PERMISSABLE AREAS

BAY OF PLENTY WATERS

Additional regulations have been, issued permitting the use of Danish staie nets and purse-seine nets within certain Bay of Plenty waters. They are issued as the Salt-Water fisheries Amendment Regulations, 1939, No. 2, and amend the 1938 regulations, under which it was declared that the restrictions prohibiting the use of seine nets should not apply in certain Auckland coastal waters where vessels of a lesser overall length than iO feet, which were built or licensed at any time prior to the date of the enforcement oi the regulations, are used.

Under the new amendment vessels complying with the conditions ninv use these nets within a distance of two nautical miles from low-water mark alongshore from the Waiara River near Opotiki, to a pointtt r ee miles westward of Matata. Excluded from the fishable area are (1) the Wb.aka.tane Harbour and the sea within the arc of a circle with a one mile radius from the signal station on Kohi Point, (2) the Ohiwa Harbour and the sea within the ol 1 circle with a two mile radius from the north-eastern point of the wc-t. cm entrance of the Ohiwa R'ver rrvl (3) the Opotiki H'.vrbour and the -co w'thin the arc of a circle with a t,vvo vuMe rad<us from the north-east., "rnmo' t. ri °i n t the western <. n- —- t.V> Onotiki River. ]r „ i, - ore nautical ones Printing of every de ,«**c>~on/* Strand, ■! { X<."% ll yVI