Your views sought
Ngāti Tamaterā Treaty Settlement Trust, on behalf of Ngāti Tamaterā, has requested a temporary closure to the harvest of pipi, cockles, mussels, and oysters, from Te Mata and Waipatukahu, west Coromandel.
The request is for a 2-year closure.
Fisheries New Zealand invites submissions about the request from persons who have an interest in the effects of fishing in the area.
Map of the proposed closure area
Proposed Te Mata and Waipatukahu temporary closure [PDF, 391 KB]
Area boundaries
The approximate area of the proposed temporary closure includes all those fisheries waters within the following lines:
- starting at a point on the mean high-water mark on the northern bank of the Ōtaki Creek mouth (at 36°57.743′S and 175°29.464′E); then
- proceeding in a straight line due west to a point 1 nautical mile offshore from the mean high-water mark (at 36°57.743′S and 175°28.205′E); then
- proceeding along a line in a generally southward direction, every point of which is 1 nautical from the mean high-water mark, to a point offshore (at 36°59.619′S and 175°28.857′E); then
- proceeding in a straight line due east to a point on the mean high-water mark on the southern bank of Diehard Stream mouth (at 36°59.619′S and 175°30.198′E); and then
- proceeding in a generally northerly direction along the mean high-water mark to the starting point.
Closure requests
New temporary closure of Te Mata and Waipatukahu shellfish beds – Part 1 [PDF, 440 KB]
New temporary closure of Te Mata and Waipatukahu shellfish beds – Part 2 [PDF, 106 KB]
Related information
Find out more about temporary closures.
Making your submission
The closing date for submissions is 5pm, on Friday 19 June 2020.
Email your submission to FMSubmissions@mpi.govt.nz
While we prefer email, you can post your submission to:
Spatial Planning and Allocations
Fisheries Management
Fisheries New Zealand
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140.
Public notice
A public notice about the call for submissions is scheduled to appear in the New Zealand Herald on Wednesday 20 May 2020.
Submissions are public information
Note, that any submission you make becomes public information. People can ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we have to make submissions available unless we have a good reason for withholding it. That is explained in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.
Tell us if you think there are grounds to withhold specific information in your submission. Reasons might include that it's commercially sensitive or it's personal information. However, any decision Fisheries New Zealand makes to withhold information can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may tell us to release it.
