Location
Key Information
| 232 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 232 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Boundary: Ministry for Primary Industries (Boundary Simplified for Display)
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July 2023
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Purpose
To provide better protection of submarine cables and pipelines; and to continue, or enable, the implementation of obligations on New Zealand under various international conventions relating to protection of submarine cables and pipelines.
Species of Concern: unknown
Regulations Summary
Restrictions
The following activities are prohibited:
1. Conducting fishing operations from a ship.
2. Anchoring a ship.
3. Wilfully or negligently either damaging, or causing or permitting a ship or equipment belonging to a ship to damage, a submarine cable or submarine pipeline.
Allowed
The restrictions do not apply to ships that are being used for research carried out by or for the Ministry of Fisheries, as long as the research is carried out without directly or indirectly attaching any of the ships involved to the seabed, whether by anchoring or by any other means.