Submitted by admin on April 23, 2009 - 00:48
Extension of Limits
In recent years, due mainly to the activity of Japanese fishing vessels around New Zealand coasts, the Government was urged to increase the area of sea within which only New Zealand registered or New Zealand based vessels would be permitted to operate. These representations were acted upon in the session of 1965 when a Bill was introduced into Parliament defining the limits of New Zealand's 3-mile territorial sea in accordance with the rules laid down in the 1958 Geneva Convention, and providing for the establishment of a further 9-mile exclusive fishing zone for the use of the domestic industry.
Nomenclature | |
Blue cod | Parapercis colias |
Eels (short finned) | Anguilla australis |
Eels (long finned) | Anguilla dieffenbachii |
Elephant fish | Callorhynchus milii |
Flounder (dab) | Rhombosolea plebeia |
,, (yellowbelly) | Rhombosolea leporina |
,, (black) | Rhombosolea retiaria |
,, (greenback) | Rhombosolea tapirina |
Gurnard | Trigla kumu |
Hapuku (groper) | Polyprion oxygeneios |
Snapper | Chrysophrys auratus |
Sole (lemon) | Pelotretis flavilatus |
,, (English) | Peltorhamphus novaezealandiae |
Tarakihi | Cheilodactylus macropterus |
Trevally | Caranx lutescens |
Whitebait | Galaxias attennuatus |
Oyster (rock) | Saxostrea glomerata |
,, (dredged) | Ostrea sinuata |
Mussel | Mytilus canaliculus |
Toheroa | Amphidesma ventricosum |
Crayfish (spiny) | Jasus lalandii |
,, (green) | Jasus verreauxi |
Paua | Haliotis iris. |
by Brian Turnbull Cunningham, B.SC., Senior Fishery Officer, Marine Department, Wellington.