Medium Size Cray Fishing Metal Pot

Medium Sized Cray Pot. An easy to use galvanised steel craypot from Bite Fishing designed to suit and meet legal fishing requirements in NZ.

Medium Cray Pot

An easy-to-use galvanized steel cray pot from Bite Fishing. Designed to suit and meet the legal fishing requirements in New Zealand

Bottom Dimensions 59cm x 91cm

Height from bottom to top 30cm

Top Dimensions 75cm x 34cm

This cray pot collapses down for more accessible storage.

Contact the Ministry of Primary Industries for cray pots for further information on fishing regulations.

Please see our other products for buoys and ropes suitable for use with this cray pot.

Rock Lobster Restrictions

Protected Rock Lobster

The following types of rock lobster are protected by law and must be returned immediately to the water

• undersized rock lobster;

• female rock lobster carrying external eggs [carried between the pleopods on the underside of the tail]

• soft-shell stage rock lobster

• rock lobster that cannot be measured [e.g. because of damage to the tail preventing accurate measurement]

In areas where rock lobster may be gathered, the following restrictions apply.

• rock lobster may not be possessed seaward of the high water mark in an unmeasurable state.

• only hand-operated loops or lassos may be used. Spring-loaded loops or lassos are prohibited.

• spears or devices which could puncture the shell must not be used when taking rock lobster. Possessing any rock lobster which has been speared is an offence.

• external eggs or egg-bearing appendages must not be removed from any rock lobster.