Fisheries (Reporting) Regulations 2017.

These regulations, consisting of 52 sections and three Schedules, set out reporting requirements for permit holders and licensed fish receivers. They differ from the 2001 regulations mainly because they: replace the range of catch, effort, landing, and processing returns provided for by the 2001 regulations with a new set of event-based reports that permit holders must provide after a particular event happens, or an activity is started or finished; provide for event reports and licensed fish receiver returns to be provided electronically; provide for circulars issued by the Director-General of the Ministry for Primary Industries (the Director-General) to specify: additional information that must contained in event reports; the manner and form in which any kind of report must be provided, including the codes that must be used.
Part 1 (event reports) provides for the following event reports: fish catch reports; non-fish species or protected fish species catch reports; processing reports; disposal reports; landing reports. Part 2 (monthly reports) provides for monthly harvest returns and licensed fish receiver returns. Provisions for both are carried over from the 2001 regulations. Monthly harvest returns record the fish taken by a permit holder in a month and licensed fish receiver returns record the fish received by a licensed fish receiver in a month. Part 3 (annual reports) provides for annual inventory returns; annual audit reports; client details annual update forms; licensed fish receiver details annual update forms. Regulations 41 to 43 set out the requirements relating to electronic reports.
Schedule 1 contains transitional arrangements that give permit holders until 1 April 2018 to comply with these regulations, so long as they do not use trawl nets on vessels that are longer than 28 m. Schedule 2 sets out the information and documentation that must be contained in an annual audit report. Schedule 3 sets out amendments to other legislative instruments, including amendments to the infringement offences specified in the Fisheries (Infringement Offences) Regulations 2001.