July 05, 2024
Limited boosted for kina harvest
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Recreational fishers around the northeast of the North Island will be able take up to 150 kina a day from under a move to tackle kina barrens.
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says there is also a new permit to allow people or organisations to harvest, cull, or move kina to help habitat restoration or to prevent kina barrens from developing.
Kina barrens are areas of rocky reef where healthy kelp forests have been consumed by an overpopulation of kina and long-spined sea urchins to form a barren space that is detrimental to other sea life.
Mr Jones says the measures won’t fix kina barrens immediately, or on their own, but they will give people more tools to take on kina barrens in their rohe and greater ownership over the health of their coastline.
The new limit will apply along the North Island’s east coast from North Cape in Northland to Cape Runaway in the Bay of Plenty, which is the Auckland East Fisheries management area.
The special permits can be applied for in any part of New Zealand and require evidence of a current or potential kina barren in the area.