The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is consulting on behalf of the Minister for Primary Industries, on whether to amend a regulation that restricts commercial harvesting of cockles in Otago Harbour.

The amendment will allow the commercial harvest of cockles to continue. Commercial harvesting has been authorised since 2009 in 2 parts of the harbour under special permit.

Submissions close 15th February 2017.

For more information, or to make a submission, click here