{"id":119821,"date":"2025-11-05T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119821\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:07:08","slug":"central-hawkes-bay-blackhead-beach-paua-bust-man-throws-his-catch-into-the-sea-as-police-inspect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119821\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Hawke\u2019s Bay: Blackhead Beach p\u0101ua bust – man throws his catch into the sea as police inspect it"},"content":{"rendered":"

They then did a search of the vehicle and found a pistol and ammunition, which he is set to face charges in court over. <\/p>\n

\u201cCharges relating to the fisheries matter have been referred to the Ministry for Primary Industries [MPI],\u201d the spokesman said. <\/p>\n

It is not the first time Blackhead Beach has been at the centre of alleged fisheries breaches. <\/p>\n

Two Hawke\u2019s Bay<\/a> men faced charges under the Fisheries Act after being caught with 353 mostly undersized p\u0101ua off Farm Rd near Blackhead Beach<\/a> in December 2024.<\/p>\n

According to MPI\u2019s website, the daily catch limit and minimum size limits for p\u0101ua can vary from place to place. <\/p>\n

In Hawke\u2019s Bay, there is a daily limit of five per fisher with a minimum size 125mm.<\/p>\n

Michaela Gower joined Hawke\u2019s Bay Today in 2023 and is based out of the Hastings newsroom. She covers Dannevirke and Hawke\u2019s Bay news and loves sharing stories about farming and rural communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They then did a search of the vehicle and found a pistol and ammunition, which he is set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38669,74,11924,806,1561,7972,1558,84457,29950,1068,1853,29955,1976,293,39991,296,702,5158,111,43,139,69,23421,675,16509,3008,223,84459,84458,2201,1316],"class_list":["post-119821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-41yearold","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-as","tag-bay","tag-beach","tag-been","tag-blackhead","tag-bust","tag-catch","tag-central","tag-haul","tag-hawkes","tag-his","tag-inspect","tag-into","tag-it","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-pua","tag-sea","tag-the","tag-throwing","tag-throws","tag-went","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}