Forms

• Application for a fishing permit
• Application for client registration
• Application for high seas fishing permit
• Application to register a foreign-owned vessel
• Application to register an Automatic Location Communicator (ALC)
• Application to register a vessel 28m and under
• Application to register a vessel on the WCPFC register [DOCX, 178 KB]
• Application to register a vessel over 28m
• Approval to carry fish in NZ waters (s113 form) [PDF, 189 KB]
• Automatic Location Communicator supplier declaration
• High Seas Fishing Permit SPRFMO questionnaire

Information sheets

• Fact sheet 1: Accurate Reporting [PDF, 258 KB]
• Fact sheet 2: Marking Requirements [PDF, 217 KB]
• Fact sheet 3: Seabirds [PDF, 1.2 MB]
• Fact sheet 4: Spatial and temporal [PDF, 213 KB]
• Fact sheet 5: Protected fish species [PDF, 358 KB]
• Fact sheet 6: Compliance delivery model [PDF, 204 KB]

Species identification guides

• A field guide to common species caught by bottom, midwater, and surface fishing (2019) [PDF, 19 MB]
• A guide to common deep sea invertebrates in New Zealand waters [PDF, 12 MB]
• Coral identification guide
• New Zealand seabirds – guides for fishers (and translations)

Reports

• Actions following the ministerial inquiry into foreign charter vessels [PDF, 210 KB]
• Report from the ministerial inquiry into foreign charter vessels [PDF, 1.6 MB]
• Compliance research report [PDF, 2.6 MB]
• Compliance research report summary [PDF, 106 KB]

Standards

• Automatic location communicator minimum standards [PDF, 565 KB]