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The township where Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē / Ninety Mile Beach ends, next to a Tauroa Peninsula pāua fishery that MPI closes for two years from 15 October 2026.
The Banks Peninsula harbour town, with Daly’s all-tide ramp, a marine reserve across the harbour mouth and the Akaroa Taiāpure rules inside.
The tip of the Whangaparāoa Peninsula, with two council ramps, surfcasting at high tide and the Tiritiri Matangi Seafloor Protection Area starting at the shore.
The Waitematā Harbour and the inner Hauraki Gulf at the city’s edge, launched from council ramps such as Westhaven and Ōkahu Bay, with the tide taken from LINZ’s Auckland standard port.
A Kaipara District access point onto Ripiro Beach, the 107 km west-coast beach that runs from the Poutō Peninsula to Maunganui Bluff.
Bluff Harbour’s town, with a city-council boat ramp that charges launch fees and checks payment by camera.
The headland at the northern entrance to Tauranga Harbour, with the Anzac Bay ramp inside, a regional bar camera on the entrance and LINZ’s Bowentown station beside it.
A North Shore beach suburb on the Hauraki Gulf with a boat and dinghy ramp at its beach reserve and the Murrays Bay tide station 2 km south.
An east Auckland suburb with all-tide council ramps at Half Moon Bay, set nets banned on the Tāmaki River and shellfish closures nearby.
A Wairarapa beach settlement where boats launch off a sheltered sandy spit and the reef, lagoon and Castle Rock lie within a DOC scenic reserve.
Christchurch’s salt water is the Estuary of the Heathcote and Avon Rivers/Ihutai and Pegasus Bay, with free council ramps at Ferrymead and Redcliffs and no set netting in the estuary.
A settlement on the southern Manukau Harbour with a LINZ tide port of its own and the closest council ramps at Glenbrook Beach.
A point on the Manukau Harbour’s Waitākere shore with a restored 200-metre wharf, inside the set-net ban that MPI applies across the harbour entrance.
The main town on Coromandel Harbour, with council ramps from Te Kouma to Amodeo Bay and a high protection area around the Motukawao Islands to the north.
A North Shore suburb with council ramps from Torpedo Bay to Narrow Neck and shellfish gathering banned at Cheltenham Beach.
Otago Harbour’s city: council jetties and ramps round the harbour, set-net bans in its upper reaches and entrance, and a no-take marine reserve on the ocean coast since July 2026.
An east Auckland beach where MPI bans shellfish gathering, with a concrete council ramp reached from The Esplanade car park.
A Manawatū River town; at Foxton Beach, Horowhenua District Council names the river estuary as a favourite spot for fishing and boating.
Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay and the Tūranganui River mouth, a LINZ standard port, with a marine reserve 16 km up the coast at Pouawa.
A port town at the mouth of the Grey River/Māwheranui, where boats cross a bar between breakwaters to reach Erua Moana Lagoon.
The Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere marina town, with a three-lane ramp and a channel its operator warns is more tidal than the other Sounds marinas.
A West Coast town at the Hokitika River mouth, on a beach the district council warns is dangerous, with a coastal set-net ban and the West Coast’s own whitebaiting rules.
A river town on the Kaiapoi River near the Waimakariri mouth, with a Coastguard ramp and fishing platform at the Kaiapoi Marine Precinct.
The Kaikōura Peninsula inside MPI’s separate Kaikōura Marine Area: no set nets anywhere, a closed reef at Wakatu Quay and a slipway at South Bay.
A beach and estuary with a fee-paying reserve boat ramp that is poor at spring low tides, under Tasman District Council’s navigation bylaw.
A west-coast surf beach south of the Manukau Heads, reached by permit-only beach driving and closed to set netting.
A town at the northern end of Tauranga Harbour, with council ramps at Beach Road, Tanners Point and Ongare Point and a long timber jetty at Kauri Point.
A bay on Auckland’s south-eastern coast with an all-tide concrete ramp beside the jetty and regional parks on both sides.
A west-coast settlement on Kāwhia Harbour, where the open-coast set-net ban is drawn straight across the harbour mouth.
Kerikeri’s boating is on the Kerikeri Inlet, where the district council runs ramps on both shores, including the only public launch on the south side.
An East Coast Bays beach where the entire shore belongs to the Long Bay-Okura Marine Reserve, so every kind of fishing is banned.
Lyttelton Harbour/Whakaraupō, a LINZ standard port where the Ngāti Wheke mātaitai bylaws took effect on 1 October 2026 and boats launch at Naval Point.
The Māhia Peninsula settlement beside the Horokaka mātaitai, one of three mātaitai around the peninsula, each with its own bans on shellfish, kina and rock lobster.
A sheltered harbour north of Auckland, with shore fishing at Mahurangi West and the Kawau Bay High Protection Area off Mahurangi East.
An estuary settlement inside the Maketu taiapure, where a regional council project has returned part of the Kaituna River’s flow to the estuary.
A Kaipara District harbour settlement with the council’s Alamar Crescent boat ramp on the estuary and LINZ’s Mangawhai Heads tide station.
A Doubtless Bay harbour town with an all-tide council ramp at Mill Bay and a public jetty and pontoon on its waterfront boardwalk.
Auckland’s big west-coast harbour, launched from council ramps from Māngere Bridge to the Manukau Heads, with a bar the harbourmaster warns can be dangerous.
A Tasman village with a council-owned wharf, a tide-limited ramp at Grossi Point and a reserved lane out to the Māpua bar.
An east Auckland beach with two council ramps, and MPI’s cockle closure at Umupuia Beach just along the coast.
A Whangārei Harbour locality with LINZ’s Marsden Point standard port, the all-tide ramps at Marsden Cove and a two-year shellfish closure on Marsden Bank and Mair Bank.
A North Shore beach between Castor Bay and Takapuna, with trailer-boat ramps at Milford Reserve and the Wairau Estuary and dinghy ramps along the beachfront.
A Tāmaki Drive beach with a small-boat council ramp beside the Tāmaki Yacht Club.
One of the Waitomo District’s beach settlements, at the mouth of the Mōkau River, where the west-coast set-net ban is drawn across the river entrance.
A Tasman town whose boats go out over the shifting Motueka bar, with launching at the power boat club marina and scallops closed since 2018.
The peninsula at the Tauranga Harbour entrance, with free city ramps at Pilot Bay and Whareroa, a mātaitai around Mauao and LINZ’s Tauranga standard port next door.
A Tasman Sea surf beach north-west of Auckland, fished from the sand and the rocks, closed to set nets and open to permit-holding drivers around low tide.
An East Coast Bays beach with its own LINZ tide station and a council boat ramp, a few kilometres south of the Long Bay-Okura Marine Reserve.
Hawke Bay at Napier, a LINZ standard port, with the Nelson Quay boat ramp in Ahuriri’s inner harbour and the Marine Parade foreshore.
A Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere port city with its marina in Nelson Haven and the no-take Horoirangi Marine Reserve along the coast to the north.
Pegasus Bay surf and the 300 m New Brighton Pier, where Christchurch City Council allows fishing except on Sunday daytime and lists red cod, kahawai and mullet among the catch.
Taranaki’s coastal city, with a protected area round Ngā Motu/Sugar Loaf Islands where some fishing is allowed and a no-take marine reserve right beside it.
The Far North’s long west-coast beach, officially Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē / Ninety Mile Beach, 83 km from Te Paki Stream to Ahipara by DOC’s count.
A historic North Otago harbour, closed to shipping since 1974, where Waitaki District Council keeps the wharves and slipway but the breakwater is shut to the public.
Ōhiwa Harbour between Whakatāne and Ōpōtiki: deep channels between sandbanks, an entrance at the eastern tip of the Ōhope spit, and a council boat ramp on Harbour Road.
An open Bay of Plenty surf beach on the Ōhope spit, with Port Ōhope’s wharves and the Ōhiwa boat ramp at the harbour end and LINZ’s Port Ōhope Wharf station for the tide.
A sandspit settlement between the Whangateau Harbour and Ōmaha Bay, with a four-lane council ramp on the harbour side and a 2026 MPI shellfish closure along the open coast.
A peninsula on the western Tauranga Harbour with daily LINZ tide predictions of its own and a boat ramp on the regional council’s boating map.
The Manukau Harbour’s standard tide port, with a council ramp at Orpheus Drive and two fishing bays on the Ngā Hau Māngere bridge to Māngere Bridge.
A Hokianga Harbour settlement with a council ramp and wharf beside State Highway 12, where the Far North District Council warns of strong currents.
A river town whose new harbour, built between twin seawalls, leads to a council wharf and boat ramp, though the regional council still flags the bar as dangerous.
The Bay of Islands’ marina and car-ferry village, where the council’s commercial company owns the marina, its fuel dock and the ferry ramp.
A sheltered pocket bay on the Taranaki coast with a council ramp on an old cargo-jetty breakwater, inside a shellfish closure that runs to mid-December 2026.
A long open beach west of Invercargill whose toheroa bed may not be dug without a customary authorisation.
A beach town on the Ōrewa River, with council dinghy ramps on Marine Parade and MPI’s Whangaparāoa Peninsula closure beginning at the river.
A Kāpiti Coast town with surfcasting from Ōtaki Beach, council limits on where you can drive on the sand, and a set-net ban drawn across the Ōtaki River mouth.
A Bay of Islands town with council boat ramps listed at Waitangi and Te Haumi, under MPI’s Auckland and Kermadec rules.
An open-coast locality south-east of Mount Maunganui, where the Maketu taiapure begins at the old mouth of the Wairakei Stream.
A Kāpiti Coast town facing Kapiti Island, where boats launch off the beach by tractor and the Kapiti Marine Reserve stretches across to the island.
A beach town on the eastern side of Tairua Harbour, with three council ramps, two public jetties and a high protection area around Slipper Island to the south-east.
The Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui port town, launched from the Picton and Waikawa marina ramps, inside the Marlborough Sounds blue cod closure from 1 September to 10 January.
A Waitākere Ranges surf beach fished from the sand and the rocks, with no council ramp and set nets banned along the whole coast.
A Waitematā peninsula suburb with two high-tide ramps at Raymond Reserve and a marine reserve on its western side at Waterview.
A city on Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour, where set nets are banned throughout the harbour and Pāuatahanui Inlet, and Pukerua Bay is limited to hand-held lines.
A settlement at the Waikato River mouth, with a council boat ramp on Tuakau Bridge-Port Waikato Road and set nets banned at the river entrance.
A Central Hawke’s Bay beach that the district council lists as a busy launching site for recreational fishing boats, with extensive rock pools and a summer freedom-camping ballot.
The settlement at the southern tip of the Pouto Peninsula, with a 60-metre all-tide council wharf into the Kaipara Harbour and a boat ramp added in 2025.
A long Bay of Plenty beach east of Maketu, with a council boat ramp on Pukehina Parade and the Waihi Estuary behind its western end.
A west-coast harbour town with five council boat ramps, a rebuilt wharf precinct and a bar watched by a live camera.
A beach community on the Karikari Peninsula, the land between Doubtless Bay and Rangaunu Harbour, with a council ramp improved for the 2023–24 summer.
Riverton/Aparima’s harbour, where the regional council bans anchoring near the harbour leads and the district council has budgeted a new T wharf.
A Bream Bay settlement on a 13 km beach that Whangarei District Council lists for surfing and kite surfing, with a wildlife refuge for shorebirds.
Russell (Kororāreka) on the Bay of Islands, with a council ramp on The Strand, a car ferry from Okiato and spiny rock lobster closed since April 2026.
A Kaipara Harbour settlement with a council ramp, tides that LINZ calculates from Port Taranaki, and the Kaipara bar between the harbour and the open sea.
A Kawau Bay beach with four council ramps, inside MPI’s 2026 Kawau Bay shellfish closure and beside DOC’s Kawau Bay protection areas.
A bay at the base of the Whangaparāoa Peninsula with three one-lane council ramps, on a shore MPI closed to shellfish gathering in March 2026.
The seaside suburb at the mouth of the Christchurch estuary, with the Sumner Life Boat Ramp at Scarborough, the Moncks Bay ramp and LINZ’s Sumner Head station.
A Doubtless Bay locality with a council boat ramp and jetty, and Mill Bay at Mangōnui as the nearby alternative.
A harbour town on the western side of Tairua Harbour, with an all-tide council ramp on Wharf Road, a free ramp at Paku and a set-net ban on the coast outside the entrance.
A North Shore beach on the inner Hauraki Gulf with three council ramps on the Takapuna Beach Reserve.
Te Awanui Tauranga Harbour and the city’s free council ramps, with a mātaitai reserve around Mauao and new shipping-lane rules from October 2026.
A town at the southern end of the Firth of Thames, with council ramps at Kōpū and along the Thames Coast road to the north.
The Rangitaiki River mouth west of Whakatāne, a council boat ramp at Thornton Beach Road and a river bar that surfcasters share with boats.
A port city on the South Canterbury coast, a LINZ standard port with three mātaitai reserves along its shore, north and south of the harbour.
A small settlement on the Kaipara Harbour whose council wharf was shut as unsafe in late 2023, on a harbour MPI keeps closed to scallop taking.
A small natural harbour on the Tutukaka Coast, home to dive and fishing charters and the main launch point for the Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve.
A Hauraki Gulf island ringed since August 2026 by a one-nautical-mile MPI closure on mussels, pāua and packhorse rock lobster, with Te Matuku Marine Reserve in its south-east corner.
A western Bay of Plenty beach town near Bowentown and the Katikati Entrance to Tauranga Harbour, a bar the regional council flags as dangerous.
A town on the Waikanae River whose beach launch is run by the Waikanae Boating Club and whose river mouth is where the Kapiti Marine Reserve meets the mainland.
Eastern Marlborough’s Wairau Bar locality, with LINZ’s Wairau River Entrance tide station about 2 km away and a 4-nautical-mile set-net ban along the coast.
A river-mouth town where the Waitara River runs out between old training moles and boats cross a bar to reach the open sea.
A Franklin town on the southern reaches of the Manukau Harbour, with no council ramp of its own and a LINZ tide port beside it.
The capital on Wellington Harbour / Port Nicholson, with seven city council boat ramps and the Taputeranga Marine Reserve on its south coast.
A river port at the Buller River mouth, with a free yacht-club ramp into the Floating Basin and a harbour bar that calls for advice before crossing.
A south Auckland suburb on the upper Manukau Harbour with two council foreshore ramps and its own LINZ tide port.
A river-mouth harbour and fishing base with a council ramp on Muriwai Drive, launch fees from 1 October 2026 and a bar the regional council marks as dangerous.
A surf town on Whangamatā Harbour whose main council ramp, on Beach Road, is an all-tide facility of six lanes or more inside an entrance the council says needs care.
A river-mouth city with council-listed fishing beaches at Castlecliff, South Beach, Kai Iwi and Ototoka, two riverside fishing platforms upstream of the North Mole, and a launching ramp on Wharf Street.
A peninsula ringed by council ramps from Gulf Harbour to Army Bay, where MPI closed the rock pools and inshore strip to invertebrate and seaweed harvest for two years from March 2026.
Northland’s harbour city, with LINZ’s Town Basin tide station in the upper harbour and a two-part marine reserve at Waikaraka and Motukaroro.
A Whangaroa Harbour settlement with the council’s Ratcliffes Bay ramp, an all-tide concrete ramp with a floating dock and 23 trailer parks.
A Mercury Bay town on Whitianga Harbour, with two all-tide council ramps, public wharves and jetties, and DOC’s Te Whanganui-o-Hei / Cathedral Cove Marine Reserve towards Hahei.