{"id":425950,"date":"2026-05-13T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425950\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:47:09","slug":"christchurch-man-took-486-paua-from-hikurangi-marine-reserve-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/425950\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch man took 486 p\u0101ua from Hikurangi Marine Reserve to sell"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cHe intended to sell the p\u0101ua, which is illegal,\u201d Jay said. <\/p>\n
\u201cFishery Officers have zero tolerance for this behaviour, which threatens the sustainability of this important shared resource.\u201d<\/p>\n
The p\u0101ua seized by Fishery Officers.<\/p>\n
Tata\u2019s son, Biyhan Tata, 26, was sentenced in March to five months\u2019 community detention for his part in the offending, which was diving for the p\u0101ua.<\/p>\n
The offending was uncovered when a Fishery Officer on patrol saw the pair at the Hikurangi Marine Reserve.<\/p>\n
The men hid a sack with p\u0101ua in it by a concrete sea barrier.<\/p>\n
The sack of p\u0101ua was hidden by the offenders. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
Fisheries New Zealand worked with police and stopped a vehicle Bruce Tata was in, recovering the sack containing the p\u0101ua.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile Bruce Tata claimed the p\u0101ua was being gathered for a social event, we found electronic evidence of p\u0101ua sales. Neither of these men held a fishing permit to sell seafood,\u201d Jay said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we have evidence of illegal fishing behaviour, we take action and will hold those responsible to account.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe encourage people to report any suspected illegal activity through the Ministry for Primary Industries\u2019 0800 4 POACHER line (0800 476 224).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe intended to sell the p\u0101ua, which is illegal,\u201d Jay said. \u201cFishery Officers have zero tolerance for this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[218411,1558,4487,20556,3011,71,218412,1345,16841,5158,19635,3234,111,43,139,69,16509,10665,13311,5161,4758,61,6382,5977],"class_list":["post-425950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-218411","tag-been","tag-christchurch","tag-detention","tag-four","tag-from","tag-hikurangi","tag-home","tag-intended","tag-man","tag-marine","tag-months","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pua","tag-reserve","tag-sell","tag-sentenced","tag-taking","tag-to","tag-took","tag-which"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425950","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=425950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}