Wainui Bay Spat Catching group requested a change to the Tasman Resource Management Plan. This private plan change sought to provide the marine farming industry with certainty that spat catching farms in Wainui Bay can continue beyond the current term of consent (2024). To achieve this certainty, the private plan change proposed to rezone the eight spat catching sites to a newly created zone - AMA 4 - Wainui. Within this zone mussel spat catching (<40 mm) and mussel spat holding (40-60 mm) are controlled activities and mussel farming (>60 mm) is prohibited. Amended policy and text recognised the national and regional importance of the area for spat catching. No new space or activities were proposed.
Plan Change - Notified: 12 March 2016 Submissions Closed: Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Further Submissions - Notified: 14 May 2016 Closed: Monday 30 May 2016
Hearing Held: 22 & 26 August 2016
Decisions Notified: 3 October 2016
Environment Court - Hearing: 31 October – 3 November 2017 Decision: 10 August 2018
Adoption by Council: 18 October 2018
Approval by Minister of Conservation: 20 May 2019
Approval and Commencement as Operative: 14 December 2019
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