Transpower has detailed the thousands of dollars worth of fines dished out for fishing near the Cook Strait power cables.<\/p>\n
Three power cables run for 40 kilometres across Cook Strait between Oteranga Bay near Wellington and Fighting Bay in Marlborough.<\/p>\n
Five telecommunications cables also run across the waterway.<\/p>\n
The first cables were originally laid in 1965, making them one of the first submarine cable links in the world.<\/p>\n
Replacement cables were laid in 1991 and are due to be replaced again in 2032.<\/p>\n
They can transfer up to 15 percent of New Zealand’s power between the two islands.<\/p>\n
The Cook Strait protection zone runs along the length of the cables, is seven kilometres wide and patrolled 24\/7 by boat. It prohibits fishing of any type or anchoring.<\/p>\n
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