Fisheries (Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2014 (2014/279).

These Regulations amend the Fisheries (Commercial Fishing) Regulations 2001 to impose a ban on shark finning by commercial fishers in New Zealand fisheries waters in line with a commitment made in the National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks 2013. They, among other things: Insert new definitions of artificially attached, blue shark, naturally attached, shark, shark finning, and wet for the purposes of new regulations 52B and 52C; insert new regulations 52B and 52C, which prohibit the landing of the fins of any species of shark unless they are naturally attached to the body of the shark. A person who undertakes shark finning in contravention of new regulation 52B is liable on conviction (under regulation 85(4) of the principal regulations) to a fine.