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Queenstown Rees Hotel has been fined 22 thousand dollars for selling illegally caught crayfish - as part of a pricey luxury experience

Queenstown Rees Hotel has been fined 22 thousand dollars for selling illegally caught crayfish - as part of a pricey luxury experience

15 July 2025

The package involved flying groups to remote locations - at up to 8000 dollars a pop - to watch a diver gather crays.

The hotel didn't keep records on sales of the recreationally caught kaimoana - so the scale was unclear.

Its owners were sentenced and fined in Queenstown District Court yesterday.

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