NEW ZEALAND MARINE FISHER AND NON-FISHER SURVEY 2011-2012 RECREATIONAL FISHING AREAS
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Recreational Fishing Areas
Index To Maps Area No. Description
Kaitaia Whangarei
Auckland
Tauranga Gisborne New Plymouth Whanganui
Nelson Blenheim Westport
Greymouth Hokitika Christchurch Timaru
Dunedin Invercargill
Napier Hastings
Wellington
Page Area Description No. No.
Page No.
1
North Cape to Cape Brett.................................. 1
21
Manukau Harbour & entrance......................4 & 7
2
Bay of Islands.................................................... 2
22
Kaipara Harbour & entrance........................3 & 4
3a
Cape Brett to Te Arai Point................................. 3
23
Manukau Entrance to Kaipara Entrance............ 4
3b
Te Arai Point to Cape Rodney............................ 5
24
West of Northland.............................................. 3
4
Whangarei Harbour & entrance......................... 3
25
Reef Point to North Cape................................... 1
5a
North of Barrier Islands...................................... 5
26
Marlborough Sounds........................................ 13
5b
Barrier Islands.................................................... 5
27
Queen Charlotte Sound & Tory Channel.......... 13
6
Western Hauraki Gulf......................................... 6
28a Stephen Is to Tory Channel excl. sounds......... 12
7
Inner Hauraki Gulf.............................................. 6
28b Tory Channel to Clarence River....................... 12
8
Firth of Thames.................................................. 9
29
Clarence River to Conway River...................... 12
9
Eastern Hauraki Gulf.......................................... 6
30
Conway River to Sumner Beach...................... 15
10
Eastern Coromandel.......................................... 9
31
Sumner Beach to Rakaia River........................ 15
11a Northern Bay of Plenty....................................... 9
32
Rakaia River to Waitaki River.......................... 16
11b Middle Bay of Plenty.......................................... 9
33
Waitaki River to Tokomirira River..................... 16
12
Tauranga Harbour & entrances.......................... 9
34a Tokomirira River to Long Point.................16 & 17
13
Eastern Bay of Plenty...................................... 10
34b Long Point to Slope Point................................ 17
14a East Cape – Northern...................................... 10
35
Slope Point to Te Waewae Inlet....................... 17
14b East Cape - Southern...................................... 10
36
Stewart Is, Ruapuke Island & surrounds.......... 17
15a Hawke Bay - Northern...................................... 11
37
Patterson Inlet on Stewart Island..................... 17
15b Hawke Bay - Southern..................................... 11
38
South West of the South Island....................... 17
16
Cape Turnagain to Turakirae Head.................. 12
39a North West of the South Island........................ 14
17
Turakirae Head to Titahi Bay............................ 12
39b West of the South Island.................................. 14
18a Waitotara River to Manawatu River................... 8
40a North of the South Island................................. 12
18b Manawatu River to Titahi Bay.......................... 12
40b Cape Farewell to Kahurangi Point................... 12
19
Waitotara River to Tirua Point............................ 8
40c Golden Bay and Tasman Bay.......................... 12
20
Tirua Point to entrance area of Manukau........... 7
N
30 km
W S
Hooper Point
Tapotupotu Bay
North Cape Titirangi Point
Spirits Bay
Cape Maria van Dieman
Pandora Bank
Page 1
E
Three Kings Islands
Cape Reinga
Area 25, 1
Whareana Bay Parengarenga Harbour
Ninety Mile Beach
Area 1
Great Exhibition Bay
North Cape to Cape Brett
Te Wakatehana Island (The Bluff) Karikari Beach
Farmer Point
Cape Karikari
Ranganui Bay
Area 25
Tokerau Beach
Reef Point to North Cape Includes Three Kings Islands. Waipapakauri Beach Ahipara Bay Reef Point Te Angaanga (Tauroa Point) Beach
Excludes Bay of Islands, but includes Percy Island. The boundary with Area 3 extends NE of Cape Brett.
Maitai Bay Doubtless Bay Cable Bay Manganui Harbour
Awanui
Whangaroa Harbour Whangaroa
Cavalli Islands Matauri Bay Orokaraka Bay
Kaitaia Ahipara
Area 2 Bay of Islands Waitangi
Area 24
Cape Wikiwiki
Paihia
Russell
Note: Percy Island (Hole in the rock) is in Area 1 Cape Brett
Area 3a
Area 2
Page 2
8 km
N W
Area 1
E S
Cape Wikiwiki Te Puna Inlet
Kerikeri Inlet
Tikitiki Rocks Harakeke Island
Po
uk In our le a t W a Ba iroa y
Do Ba ves y
Bay of Islands Cape Wikiwiki to Cape Brett excluding Percy Island.
Moturoa Kerikeri
Ohututea Bay Okahu Island Waewaetorea Island Urupukapuka Island
Motukiekie
Percy Island (Motukokako) “Hole in Rock”
Deep Water Cove Whakapae Bay
Moturua
Onewhero Bay
Topeka Point Kororareka Point Russell Waitangi
Haruru Falls
Bird Rock
Area 2
W Ra h Ba ale ng Ba ihou y y a
Cape Brett
Motuarohia (Roberton Island)
a or ne ay to O B pi O ay B
ke O ay B
Paroa Bay
Paihia Veronica Channel
Opua
Waikare Inlet
Waikino Creek Kawakawa River
Rawhiti Point
Area 3a
Area 3a, 4, 22, 24
Page 3
Area 1
Reef Point
Cape Brett
Area 2
Area 3a
Whangamumu Harbour
Cape Brett to Te Arai Point
30 km
Whangaruru Rimariki Island
N W
Excludes Whangarei Harbour and entrance area.
Bland Bay
Poor Knights Islands
E
Sandi Bay
Hokianga Harbour
High Peak Rocks Sugarloaf Rock
Tutukaka
S
Ngunguru Bay Taiharuru Head
Whangarei Area 4
Omamari
Area 24
Dargaville Waipu
Reef Point to Kaipara Harbour excludes Kaipara Harbour and entrance area.
Bream Head
Marsden Point Baylys Beach
West of Northland
Ocean Beach
Whangarei Harbour and entrance area
Bream Bay La
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Glinks Gully The Black Rocks
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Te Arai Point to Cape Rodney (see pg 5 for more detail)
Little Barrier Island
Pakiri Beach
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Area 5a
Area 3b
Wellsford
Cape Rodney
Area 5b
Area 22
North Head
Kaipara Harbour and entrance area
South Head
a ho r u Ta ive R
Shelly Beach
Area 23
Rangitira Beach
Warkworth
Kawau Island
Area 6 Orewa Gulf Harbour
Tiritiri Matangi
Area 21, 22, 23
30 km N
Dargaville
Area 5a
Area 3a
E
Glinks Gully
S
The Black Rocks
Area 24
Area 3b W ai
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Area 5b
Area 22 North Head
Kaipara Harbour and entrance area South Head
a ho r u Ta ive R
Area 6 Area 9
Shelly Beach Rangitira Beach
Area 7
Area 23 Manukau Harbour to Kaipara Entrance
Muriwai
AUCKLAND
Bethells Beach
Excludes Manukau and Kaipara Harbours and entrance areas.
Piha
Manukau Heads
Area 21 Manukau Harbour and entrance area Manukau Harbours and entrance area.
Area 20 Waikato River
Area 8
W
Baylys Beach
Page 4
Area 3b, 5a, 5b
10 km
Page 5
N Area 5a
Area 3a
W
Parry Channel
North of Barrier Islands
S Marotere Islands
Mokohinau Islands
Hen and Chicken Islands Taranga Island
Simpson Rock
Sail Rock
Area 3b
Needles Point
Te Arai Point to Cape Rodney
Katherine Bay
Te Arai Point
Little Barrier Island
Pakiri Beach
Leigh
Port Abercrombie Motuhaku Port Fitzroy Broken Islands
Goat Island
Aiguilles Island
Whangapua Beach
Area 5b
Great Barrier Island
Whangaparapara Harbour Blind Bay
Cape Rodney
Arid Island (Rakitu Island)
Barrier Islands Kaitoke Beach Oruawharo Bay Shakespeare Point
Tryphena Harbour
Omaha Bay
Cape Barrier
Takatu Point
Warkworth
E
Kawau Island
Area 6 Area 10
Channel Island
Area 9
Coromandel Peninsula
Area 6, 7, 9 Pakiri Beach
Page 6
Little Barrier Island Great Barrier Island
Cape Rodney
Leigh
Area 5b
N
10 km Warkworth Snells Beach
Takatu Point
W
Kawau Island
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Mah
Bon Accord Harbour
Area 6 Flat Rock
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Orewa
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Wh
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Port Jackson
Rakino Island Motutapu Island
Westhaven Marina
Mission Bay
Browns Island
Onetangi Beach Waiheke Island
Hooks Bay Man o’War Bay
Tarahiki Island (Shag Island) Pakatoa Rotoroa Ponui Island
Tamaki Strait Maraitai Pine Harbour
Kennedy Bay Rabbit Island H Ch auta an pu Motuoruhi ne l Waimate Coromandel Island Motutapere Coromandel Harbour Te Kouma Harbour
Inner Hauraki Gulf Piripiri Point to Orere Point.
Mercury Islands
Colville Bay
Happy Jack Island (Elephant Cove)
Area 7
Motuihe Island
Half Moon Bay Marina
AUCKLAND
Waikawa Bay
Deadmans Point to Cape Colville including Channel Island.
The Noises
Waitemata Harbour
Port Charles
Eastern Hauraki Gulf
Piripiri Point
Rangitoto Island
S
Area 9
Gulf Harbour
North Shore
Cuvier Island
Area 10
Tiritiri Matangi Island
Long Bay
Fletcher Bay Stony Bay
Cape Colville
Cape Rodney to Piripiri Point. East boundary is 2NM west of top of Coromandel Peninsula. South boundary is south of Gulf Harbour but north of The Noises.
Motuora
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Channel Island
Western Hauraki Gulf
Moturekareka
E
Deadmans Point
Area 8
Manaia Harbour Kirita Bay Wilsons Bay
Kawakawa Bay Orere Point
Firth of Thames
Whangapoua Harbour Matarangi Beach
Mercury Bay Whitianga
Area 20, 21
30 km N Area 23
W
Manukau Heads
S
Auckland
Piha
E
Page 7
Area 21
Area 8
Manukau Harbour and entrance area Clarks Beach
Pukekohe
Port Waikato (Estuary area is included in this survey)
Huntly
Area 20 Tirau Point to entrance area of Manukau
Ngaruawahia
Excludes Manukau Harbour and entrance area.
Raglan Harbour
Hamilton
Raglan
Aotea Harbour
Te Awamutu
Kawhia Harbour
Otorohanga
Area 19
Tirau Point
Te Kuiti
Area 18a, 19
70 km Area 20
Kawhia Harbour
N W
E
Tirau Point
S North Taranaki Bight
Mokau River Ahiti
Area 19 Waitara
Waititora River to Tirau Point
Urenui
New Plymouth
Cape Egmont
Mount Egmont (Taranaki)
Opunake Hawera
Patea Graham Bank
Waitotara River
Castlecliff
Whanganui
Area 40a Area 18a Waitotara River to Manawatu River Cape Farewell
Area 40c
Stephens Island
Area 28a
Area 18b Kapiti Island
Santoff Forest
Bulls Feilding
Rangitikei River Foxton Beach Manawatu River
Palmerston North Foxton
Levin
Page 8
Area 8, 10, 11a, 11b, 12 Area 10 Channel Island
Area 6
Cuvier Island
Fletcher Bay Port Charles
Cape Colville
Waikawa Bay Area 9
Area 7
Eastern Hauraki Gulf (see page 6 for detail)
Kennedy Bay Whangapoua Harbour Coromandel Whitianga
Deadmans Point Orere Point
Waimangu Point
Miranda
30 km
Eastern Coromandel (see also page 6 for more detail of NE coast)
N W
Mercury Islands
Mercury Bay Hahei
Area 11b
Hot Water Beach
Middle Bay of Plenty
Tairua Harbour
Tapu
Waihou River
E S
Opito Bay
Pauanui Slipper Island (Whakahau) Oputere
Area 8 Firth of Thames
Page 9
Onemana
Thames Whangamata
Area 11a Northern Bay of Plenty
Whiritoa
Waihi
Area 13
Excludes Tauranga Harbour and both entrances.
Bay of Plenty
Mayor Island
Waihi Bluff Waihi Beach Bowentown Matakana Island
Katikati Area 12 Tauranga Harbour and both entrances
White Island Mount Maunganui Tauranga
Te Puke
Motiti Island Papamoa Beach Maketu
Motanau Island Okurei Point Waihi Estuary
Matata
Tarawera River
Rurima Island Motohora Island
Area 13, 14a, 14b
Page 10
30 km Area 14a
Area 13 Area 11b
Eastern Bay of Plenty
White Island
East Cape Northern
Cape Runaway
Whangararoa Bay Waihau Bay Papatea Bay
Hicks Bay
E
East Cape
S
Omaio Bay
Rurima Island
W
Te Araroa
Te Kaha
Tarawera River
N
Moutohara Island Coastlands
Whakatane
Ti ro
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Ohope
Ruatoria
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Waipiro Bay
Opotiki
Tokomaru Bay
Anaura Bay
Tolaga Bay
Waihau Bay
Pouawa Gisborne Poverty Bay
Tamarau
Whareonganoa
Area 14b East Cape Southern
Area 15a, 15b
Page 11
70 km
Tolaga Bay
Area 14b East Cape Southern
Gisborne
Mohaka Wairoa River Waipatiki Beach Esk River
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Hawini Rocks Portland Island
Hawke Bay
Napier
Hastings
Mahia Whakaki Beach Lagoon Ahuriri Point
Black Reek Cape Kidnappers Ocean Beach Bare Island (Motuokura) Kairakau
Pourere Aramoana Blacklead Point Bird Island
Area 15b Hawke Bay Southern
Poroporo
Cape Turnagain
Area 16
W
E S
Poverty Bay Whareonganoa
Wairoa
N
Area 15a Hawke Bay Northern
Area 16, 17, 18b, 28a, 28b, 29, 40a, 40b, 40c
Page 12
N
70 km
W
E
Area 40a
S
North of the South Island
Waitotara River
Area 19
Excludes Golden Bay, Tasman Bay and Marlborough Sounds.
Whanganui
Area 18a
Dannevirke
Waitotara River to Manuwatu River
Palmerston North
Cape Farewell
Cape Farewell to Kahurangi Point
Kahurangi Point
Golden Bay
Stephens Island
Area 40c Golden & Tasman Bays and west of Stephens & D’urvile Islands
Area 39a
Karamea Bight
Foxton
Farewell Spit
Area 40b
Motueka
Area 15b
D’urville Island
Area 28a
Area 18b
Stephen Island to Tory Channel excl. Sounds
Manawatu River to Titahi Bay
Manawatu River Kapiti Island
Includes Mana Island. See page 20 for details on west boundary.
Area 26
Otaki
Area 27 Picton
Nelson
Cloudy Bay
Blenheim Seddon
Carterton
Mana Island
Tory Channel
Lower Hutt Wellington Baring Head Area 17
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Turakirae Head to Titahi Bay Excludes Mana.
Clarence River
Area 29 Clarence River to Conway River
Area 30
Cheviot Point Gibson
Glenburn Te Awaiti
Turakirae Head
From Tory Channel to Clarence River (not including Tory Channel)
Conway River
Flat Point
Palliser Bay
Area 28b
Kaikoura Peninsula
Riversdale
Featherston
Porirua
Mapua
Castle Point
Masterton
Titahi Bay
Tasman Bay
Cape Turnagain
Levin
White Rock Cape Palliser
Area 16 Cape Turnagain to Turakirae Head
Area 26, 27
Page 13
Stephens Island Cape Stephens
10 km
Wakaterepapanui Island
Jag Rocks Area 26
Durville Island
Greville Harbour
Trio Islands
N
All the area inside a line from Stephens Island to Cape Jackson.
Chetwode Islands
Admiralty Bay
E
Area 18b
Pelorus Sound French Pass
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Clova Bay
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Furneaux Cove Lodge
Crail Bay
Endeavour Inlet
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Resolution Bay
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Pickersgill Island
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Grove Arm
Cape Jackson
Cook Strait
Area 27 Queen Charlotte Sound and Tory Channel
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Cape Koamaru
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The Brothers
East Bay Perano Head
Portage
Kenepuru Sound
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Waikawa
Area 17
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Tory Channel
Entrance to Tory Channel
Area 28b
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Picton
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Mah
Cape Lambert
Port Gore
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Havelock
Waitai Bay
Beatrix Bay
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Alligator Head
Guards Bay
Anakoha Bay
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Titi Island
Forsyth Island
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Maud Island
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Marlborough Sounds
Hik
W
Area 28a
Area 39a, 39b
Page 14
70 km Area 40b
N W
Area 40c
Kahurangi Point
E
Karamea Bight
Area 39a
Tasman Sea Cape Foulwind
Little Wanganui
Buller Bay
S
Carters Beach
North West of South Island
Karamea
Westport
Charleston Fox River Punakaiki
Area 39b
Port Elizabeth
West of South Island
Greymouth
Hokitika Abut Head
Area 30
Okarito
Bruce Bay
Haast
Area 31
Jackson Bay Awarua Point
Area 38
Area 32
Area 30, 31
Page 15
30 km Area 29 Conway River
N Cheviot Gore Bay Manuka Bay
Area 30 Conway River to Sumner Beach
W
E S
Motunau Teviotdale
Amberley
Pegasus Bay Waikuku Beach
Rangiora
Woodend Beach
Kaiapoi Waimari Beach New Brighton Christchurch
Sumner Beach
Lyttelton Diamond Harbour
Lyttelton Harbour Port Levy
Hickory Bay Birdlings Flat Peraki Bay
Canterbury Bight
Area 32
Sumner Beach to Rakaia River
Pigeon Bay
Lake Ellesmere
Rakaia River
Area 31
Akaroa
Long Bay
Area 32, 33, 34a
Ashburton
Page 16
60 km
Rakaia River
Akaroa Harbour
Area 31
N
Canterbury Bight Timaru
Area 32 Rakaia River to Waitaki River Waitaki River
Oamaru
Moeraki (Boulders) Palmerston
Port Chalmers Dunedin
Milton
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Long Point
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Area 34b
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Waitaki River to Tokomirira River
Otago Harbour Otago Peninsula
Tokomirira River
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Owaka
Area 33
Taieri Beach
Kaitangata
Balclutha
Katiki Beach Shag Point
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Area 34a Tokomirira River to Long Point
W
E S
Area 33, 34a, 34b, 35, 36, 37, 38
Page 17
Area 39b
60 km
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Tasman Sea
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Fiordland Breaksea Island Resolution Island
Area 33
Dusky Sound
Port Chalmers Dunedin
West Cape Providence Rocks Western Passage lky
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Otago Peninsula
Milton
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Katiki Beach Shag Point
Palmerston
Te Waewae Bay Prices Harbour
Te Waewae Paihia Inlet Point
Southwest of the South Island From Te Waewae Inlet in the south to Awarua Point in the North. Includes Fiordland and Sounds (eg, Dusky, Doubtful, Milford).
Colac Bay
Mason Bay Doughboy Bay
Mo
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Riverton
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Owaka
Invercargill
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New River Estuary Raratoka Steep Head
North Arm
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Area 36
South Arm
Tokomirira River
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at a ra Po Aurarua Bay t C B int Island L T a o o au n y sg Toetoes Bluff C (Centre Island) g t r M ov at uk P Cu Bay ar he u o Dog e rio k Isl i I B s d n s l a South West nd ra ay t an Ba Ba l d Ruapuke C y y Arm Waipapa a ve Slope Island Point s Point (Irihuka) Area 37 Area 34b Stewart (Patterson Inlet) Island Big Glory Bay
Foveaux Strait
Area 38
Kaitangata
Balclutha
Stewart Island, Ruapuke Island and surrounds Excludes Patterson Inlet.
Area 35
Te Waewae Inlet in the west to Slope Point in the east
Long Point to Slope Point
Area 34a Tokomirira River to Long Point
