{"id":67442,"date":"2025-10-09T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67442\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:04:08","slug":"fisheries-officers-catch-two-gisborne-fishermen-with-157-undersized-paua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67442\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisheries officers catch two Gisborne fishermen with 157 undersized p\u0101ua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Cooper said the daily p\u0101ua limit was five per person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is in place to ensure sustainability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPeople who take more than their share are stealing from us all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen we find evidence of these rules being deliberately broken, we will take action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Fisheries officers said all p\u0101ua seized from the Gisborne fishermen were under the 125mm minimum size. Photo \/ MPI\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Fisheries officers said all p\u0101ua seized from the Gisborne fishermen were under the 125mm minimum size. Photo \/ MPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">The Ministry for Primary Industries encourages people to report suspected illegal activity through the ministry\u2019s 0800 4 POACHER number (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/fisheries-officers-catch-two-gisborne-fishermen-with-157-undersized-paua\/KDGJHWJINRCU5BZ6CIMQFRCMKA\/tel:0800476224\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/fisheries-officers-catch-two-gisborne-fishermen-with-157-undersized-paua\/KDGJHWJINRCU5BZ6CIMQFRCMKA\/tel:0800476224\" target=\"_blank\">0800 47 62 24<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper said the daily p\u0101ua limit was five per person. \u201cThis is in place to ensure sustainability. \u201cPeople&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54251,74,682,1068,9525,9881,54249,54250,12506,111,43,139,69,23421,54253,16509,1237,54252,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-67442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-54251","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-being","11":"tag-catch","12":"tag-caught","13":"tag-facing","14":"tag-fisheries","15":"tag-fishermen","16":"tag-gisborne","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-officers","22":"tag-prosecution","23":"tag-pua","24":"tag-two","25":"tag-undersized","26":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67442","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=67442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}