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A whitebaiting group is happy with the Department of Conservation's new approach to managing the fishery, but environmentalists say DOC just keeps getting it wrong.
Whitebaiting will now only be allowed in estuaries and near river mouths, and it will be paused in parts of some national parks. The season will be shorter and so will nets.
The government is trying to speed up the process of deciding whether large tracts of ecologically important land should be given high protection status.