| Blue Cod | - Multi-day trips: may hold 2 daily limits if you can prove you did not exceed the daily limit on any day.
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| Cockles | - The page's table has a separate, lower 'Auckland Coromandel area' daily limit: 50 per day.
- Elsewhere in the area: 150 per day.
- No minimum size.
- Cockles closed at Umupuia Beach and Te Mātā and Waipatukahu (from 7 Aug 2026, 2 years), Whangateau Harbour, Ngunguru Estuary and Rehuotane Ki Tai.
- No shellfish gathering at Cheltenham Beach, Eastern Beach, Cockle Bay and Karekare Beach.
- Closures listed on the page include: Ōmaha Bay, Kawau Bay and Whangaparāoa Peninsula rock pools out to 200 m (all invertebrates except kina, from 12 Mar 2026 for 2 years); Marsden Bank and Mair Bank (all shellfish, 29 Jun 2026 to 28 Jun 2028); Rehuotane Ki Tai (Tutukaka Harbour, Ngunguru Bay and rivers).
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| Crayfish | - Size is tail width between the tips of the two large spines on the second tail segment: male 54 mm, female 60 mm (use 60 mm if unsure of sex).
- CLOSED to spiny rock lobster (no take or possession): Pārengarenga Harbour to Cape Rodney (from 1 Apr 2026) and Cape Rodney to Port Jackson (from 1 Apr 2025).
- Open areas: CRA 1 (page wording: 'Kaipara Harbour North Head and Te Arai Point') 2 per day; CRA 2 Te Arai Point to East Cape 3 per day; west coast south of Kaipara Harbour spiny and packhorse combined 6 (max 3 packhorse).
- Telson clipping required for all spiny rock lobster taken from Te Arai Point to Cape Runaway (cut off the last third of the telson).
- Return berried females, soft-shell and unmeasurable rock lobster.
- No spears, spring-loaded loops or baited nets.
- Max 3 pots per fisher, 6 per vessel for 2 or more fishers.
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| Hāpuku | - Accumulation limit of no more than 3 per fisher over more than one day (Auckland East and West).
- Kermadecs: Combined daily limit of 5 groper (hāpuku)/bass and kingfish, with no more than 3 kingfish.
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| Jack Mackerel | - Baitfish limit: 50 a day of any mix of baitfish, on top of the combined finfish limit.
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| Kina | - 50 per day is the table's general figure.
- Since 1 Aug 2024 the limit is 150 per day in FMA 1 (east coast from North Cape to Cape Runaway, incl. Hauraki Gulf, Coromandel and Bay of Plenty); the 'Auckland Coromandel area' column also shows 150.
- Kina means Evechinus chloroticus and Centrostephanus rodgersii.
- Kina are excluded from the Ōmaha Bay, Kawau Bay and Whangaparāoa closure.
- Maunganui Bay (Deep Water Cove): no taking of any species except kina.
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| Kingfish | - Kermadecs: Combined daily limit of 5 groper (hāpuku)/bass and kingfish, with no more than 3 kingfish.
- Min 75 cm.
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| Mussels | - The page's table names green-lipped mussels: 50 per day, or 25 per day in the Auckland Coromandel area.
- No minimum size.
- Mussels closed at Waiheke Island and Te Mātā and Waipatukahu (from 7 Aug 2026, 2 years), Ōhiwa Harbour and Rehuotane Ki Tai.
- Te Puna Mātaitai: no green-lipped, blue or black mussels.
- Closures listed on the page include: Ōmaha Bay, Kawau Bay and Whangaparāoa Peninsula rock pools out to 200 m (all invertebrates except kina, from 12 Mar 2026 for 2 years); Marsden Bank and Mair Bank (all shellfish, 29 Jun 2026 to 28 Jun 2028); Rehuotane Ki Tai (Tutukaka Harbour, Ngunguru Bay and rivers).
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| Oysters | - Rock and Pacific oysters share one limit: 250 per day, or 100 per day in the Auckland Coromandel area.
- No minimum size.
- Do not open oysters while they are still attached to rock or other objects.
- Closed at Te Mātā and Waipatukahu (from 7 Aug 2026, 2 years); rock oysters closed in Rehuotane Ki Tai.
- Closures listed on the page include: Ōmaha Bay, Kawau Bay and Whangaparāoa Peninsula rock pools out to 200 m (all invertebrates except kina, from 12 Mar 2026 for 2 years); Marsden Bank and Mair Bank (all shellfish, 29 Jun 2026 to 28 Jun 2028); Rehuotane Ki Tai (Tutukaka Harbour, Ngunguru Bay and rivers).
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| Pāua | - Size is shell length: the longest straight line across the underside of the shell (not over the curve).
- Land in the shell; no shucking seaward of the mean high-water mark.
- No underwater breathing apparatus (UBA) while taking or holding pāua. 10 per day also in the Auckland Coromandel area.
- Closed: Tauroa Peninsula, Ahipara (15 Oct 2026 to 14 Oct 2028); Waiheke Island within 1 nm (from 7 Aug 2026, 2 years).
- Closures listed on the page include: Ōmaha Bay, Kawau Bay and Whangaparāoa Peninsula rock pools out to 200 m (all invertebrates except kina, from 12 Mar 2026 for 2 years); Marsden Bank and Mair Bank (all shellfish, 29 Jun 2026 to 28 Jun 2028); Rehuotane Ki Tai (Tutukaka Harbour, Ngunguru Bay and rivers).
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| Pipi | - The page's table has a separate, lower 'Auckland Coromandel area' daily limit: 50 per day.
- Elsewhere in the area: 150 per day.
- No minimum size.
- Pipi closed at Marsden Bank and Mair Bank (since 2014), Ngunguru Estuary, Te Mātā and Waipatukahu, Whangateau Harbour and Rehuotane Ki Tai.
- No shellfish gathering at Cheltenham Beach, Eastern Beach, Cockle Bay and Karekare Beach.
- Closures listed on the page include: Ōmaha Bay, Kawau Bay and Whangaparāoa Peninsula rock pools out to 200 m (all invertebrates except kina, from 12 Mar 2026 for 2 years); Marsden Bank and Mair Bank (all shellfish, 29 Jun 2026 to 28 Jun 2028); Rehuotane Ki Tai (Tutukaka Harbour, Ngunguru Bay and rivers).
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| Sand Flounder | - MPI groups flounder and sole as 'flatfish'.
- Flatfish (except sand flounder) min 25 cm; sand flounder min 23 cm.
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| Scallops | - MOSTLY CLOSED.
- All of SCA 1 (Northland scallop fishery) has been closed since 1 Apr 2022, and all of SCA CS (Coromandel) since 17 Mar 2023 (most of it since April 2022).
- Also no scallops in Kaipara Harbour, East Coromandel, Waiheke Island and Marsden/Mair Banks.
- Where open, the table gives 20 per day, min 100 mm, season 1 Sep to 31 Mar.
- Size is the greatest diameter of the shell.
- Land in the shell (scallops you eat at sea may be shucked and still count).
- A diver on a vessel may take extra limits for up to 2 safety people on board (max 2 extra limits per vessel).
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| Snapper | - Auckland East (SNA1, North Cape to Cape Runaway, out to 200 nm): 7 per day, min 30 cm.
- Auckland West (North Cape to Tirua Point): 10 per day, min 27 cm.
- Kermadec Islands: 15 per day, min 27 cm.
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| Sole | - MPI groups flounder and sole as 'flatfish'.
- Flatfish (except sand flounder) min 25 cm; sand flounder min 23 cm.
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| Tarakihi | - 10 per day from 1 Nov 2026 (no tarakihi-specific limit before, only the combined finfish limit).
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| Tuatua | - The page's table has a separate, lower 'Auckland Coromandel area' daily limit: 50 per day.
- Elsewhere in the area: 150 per day.
- No minimum size.
- Learn to tell tuatua from toheroa, which must not be taken.
- Closures listed on the page include: Ōmaha Bay, Kawau Bay and Whangaparāoa Peninsula rock pools out to 200 m (all invertebrates except kina, from 12 Mar 2026 for 2 years); Marsden Bank and Mair Bank (all shellfish, 29 Jun 2026 to 28 Jun 2028); Rehuotane Ki Tai (Tutukaka Harbour, Ngunguru Bay and rivers).
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| Yellow-eyed Mullet | - Baitfish limit: 50 a day of any mix of baitfish, on top of the combined finfish limit.
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| Yellowbelly Flounder | - MPI groups flounder and sole as 'flatfish'.
- Flatfish (except sand flounder) min 25 cm; sand flounder min 23 cm.
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