Some are given excellent legal protection through law, while others slip through legislative cracks. It's completely legal to take indigenous freshwater fish, such as mudfish, if it's not on conservation land for eating. Fines for taking bones from conservation land are up to five years' imprisonment or a $300,000 fine. The catch is that it's hard and costly to prove a bone has been taken from conservation land. A proposed ban on mining on conservation land is still waiting to be implemented.

Source: Stuff December 26, 2019 21:33 UTC