Prohibited areas

Marsden Point

Except where the Harbourmaster permits, no person shall sail, navigate, moor or anchor any vessel or enter, swim or dive whether with or without diving equipment into or in that part of the Whāngārei Harbour described as follows:

All that area enclosed by the pecked line shown on chart NZ 5214 which surrounds the Oil Refinery berths at Marsden Point as follows ─
From mean high water springs mark on the foreshore 000 degrees true to the Western most dolphin, thence 030 degrees true for 125 metres thence 120 degrees true for 715 metres, thence 210 degrees true for 125 metres to the Eastern most dolphin thence 240 degrees true to the mean high water springs on the foreshore.

Prohibited anchorages

Except where the Harbourmaster permits, no person shall moor or anchor any vessel in those parts of the respective harbours under the control of the council as hereinafter described:

• (a) Whāngārei Harbour - charts affected NZ 5214, NZ 5215
  
  All that area 75 metres each side and parallel to the following lines -
  
  (i) From a cable marker approximate position 35 degrees 46.75'S 174 degrees 23.10'E.
  
  (ii) A line in a 348 degree direction to Stevens Point Front Lead approximate position 35 degrees 46.46'S 174 degrees 23.02'E continuing in a 010 degree direction to a cable marker at Waikaraka in approximate position 35 degrees 45.65'S 174 degrees 23.16'E.
  
  (iii) A line in a 252 degree direction to Shell Bank West Rear Lead position approximately 35 degrees 46.91'S 174 degrees 22.50'E continuing in a direction 116 degrees to Shell Bank West Front Lead position approximately 35 degrees 47.49'S 174 degrees 23.99'E.
  
  (iv) A line in a 089 degree direction to Ross Beacon position approximately 35 degrees 46.74'S  174 degrees 23.28'E.
  
  (v) A line in a 312 degree direction from One Tree Point Rear Lead position approximately 35 degrees 49.32'S  174 degrees 26.98'E to One Tree Point Front Lead position approximately 35 degrees 48.63'S  174 degrees 26.02'E.
  
  (vi) A line in a 107 degree direction from Sinclair Rear Lead beacon in position approximately 35 degrees 49.46'S 174 degrees 27.57'E to Sinclair Front Lead Beacon in position approximately 35 degrees 49.54'S 174 degrees 27.92'E.
  
   
• (b) Bay of Islands Harbour - charts affected NZ 5124, NZ 5125
  
  (i)  Within the pecked lines drawn 75 metres each side of an unlighted triangular cable beacon situated on the foreshore at Russell in approximate position 35 degrees 15.87'S 174 degrees 07.28'E in a 226 degrees direction to an unlighted triangular cable beacon situated on the foreshore at Paihia in approximate position 35 degrees 17.07'S 174 degrees 05.78'E.
    
  (ii) Within the pecked lines in Veronica Channel between Okiato and Ōpua, between unlighted triangular cable markers in approximate positions.
  
  N - 35° 18.31S, 174° 07.17E
  E - 35° 18.36S, 174° 07.3'E
  S - 35° 18.57'S, 174° 06.99'E
  W - 35° 18.52'S, 174° 06.90'E
  
  (iii)  Within pecked lines drawn 75 metres each side of an unlighted triangular cable beacon situated on the foreshore in Waikare inlet in approximate positions 35 18.35S 174 08.07E and 35 18.99S 174 08.3E.
  
   
• (c) Hokianga Harbour - chart affected NZ 4212
  
  Within the pecked lines drawn 100 metres each side of a cable from a triangular beacon bearing the word "cable" and standing half a cable westward of the root of Rāwene Wharf.  The cable is laid across the harbour in a 023 degree direction from the beacon.

Bulk oil discharge permitted area

With reference to Clause 4.4.2, tanker berths suitable for the discharge of bulk oil are located at the following area:

• New Zealand Refining Company Limited jetties at Marsden Point.

Wharves and Jetties with swimming restrictions

Whāngārei 

• Main 1 – Port Whāngārei
• Main 2 – Port Whāngārei
• Main 3 – Port Whāngārei
• Portland Wharf
• Marsden Point Wharf
• Refinery Jetties 1 & 2
• Berths 1, 2 and 3 of the Northport facility at Marsden Point

Bay of Islands

• Paihia Wharf
• Russell Wharf
• Ōpua Wharf
• Okiato (ferry landing)

Hokianga

• Kohukohu (ferry landing)
• Rāwene (ferry landing)
• Opononi Wharf

Access lanes

Whāngārei Harbour

• Limestone Island
• Urquharts Bay

Mangawhai Harbour

• Lane on seaward side

Pataua Harbour 

• 600 metres upstream of footbridge – south side
• 600 metres upstream of footbridge – north side

Ngunguru Harbour

• Motor camp
• Sand spit

Tutukākā Harbour 

• Kowharewa Bay

Whananaki Harbour 

• Southern shore 60 metres downstream of bridge

Whangaruru Harbour

• Oakura
• Whenuakite

Bay of Islands

• Paihia
• Waitangi River
• Te Kowhai – Kerikeri Inlet
• Wahapu Bay – east side of Veronica Channel
• Tāpeka
• Dicks Bay

Doubtless Bay 

• Coopers Beach

Houhora

• Mount Camel
  

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