All forms and resources for commercial fishers
Forms, reports, guides, and other resources to help commercial fishers comply with requirements.
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]
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