All Hoki voluntary closures

This layer shows the Hoki Management Areas (HMA) as well as the Hoki Seasonal Spawn Areas (HSSA). These are contained separately in: Hoki Management Areas and Hoki Seasonal Spawning Areas which are also shared with the open data portal. The names of the four management areas are as follows: *Cook Strait *Mernoo Bank *Canterbury Banks *Puysegur Bank These areas are shown as defined in the Hoki Fishery Operational Procedures Version 18.0 The areas are defined as areas where there is information to demonstrate the presence of high abundances of juvenile hoki (hoki <55cm in total length). Trawlers that are greater than 28m LOA (Length OverAll) are not permitted to target hoki inside any of the HMAs shown on the map. This means that any tow (and the subsequent catch) which starts, ends or occurs in part in an HMA (regardless of start and end positions) will be deemed to have occurred within the HMA. Vessel operators will treat the HMA boundaries as they would a mandatory line and require their vessels to use a buffer to prevent accidental crossing into the HMAs while fishing. Trawlers greater than 28 m LOA fishing within an HMA, targeting species other than hoki, and not carrying a Fisheries New Zealand observer on board are required to provide or allow access to the relevant electronic reporting (ERS), Fish Catch Reports, TCEPR or TCER (Trawl Catch Effort Processing Return) or TCER (Trawl Catch Effort Return) data for all tows that are deemed to have occurred inside any HMA if and when requested by DWG. This feature class also contains areas representing the voluntary commercial closure of Hoki Seasonal Spawning Areas. These areas were agreed upon by HOK1 quota owners in the 2018/2019 Deepwater Group Operational Procedures 18.0. There are four HSSAs present in this feature class: *Cook Strait *West Coast Outside the 25 nm Line *West Coast Inside the 25 nm Line *Pegasus To allow for a period of undisturbed spawning, no trawler, regardless of size, shall target hoki within the four designated areas (co-ordinates and maps in Part 5) during the time periods, as set out below: • West Coast inside the 25 nm closure: between 0000 hrs 18 July and 2400 hrs 24 July (noting trawlers >46 m LOA are already prohibited from fishing within this area by regulation) • West Coast outside of the 25 nm closure, shallower than 800 m, between Kahurangi Point in the north and the boundary between FMAs 5 and 7 in the south: between 0000 hrs 25 July and 2400 hrs 31 July • Cook Strait: Entire fishery between 0000 hrs 1 August and 2400 hrs 7 August (noting trawlers >46 m LOA are already prohibited from fishing within this area by regulation) • Pegasus: Within the designated areas between 0000 hrs 1 September and 2400 hrs 7