Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Amendment Notice (No 3) 2006
Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Amendment Notice (No 3) 2006
Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Amendment Notice (No 3) 2006
Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Amendment Notice (No 3) 2006
(SR 2006/303)
Note
This notice is administered by the Ministry of Fisheries.
Pursuant to section 20 of the Fisheries Act 1996, the Minister of Fisheries, in accordance with section 21 of that Act, gives the following notice.
1 Title
This notice is the Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Amendment Notice (No 3) 2006.
2 Commencement
This notice comes into force on 30 September 2006.
3 Principal notice amended
This notice amends the Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Notice 1986.
4 Schedule 1 amended
Schedule 1 is amended by omitting item A relating to orange roughy and substituting the item set out in the Schedule of this notice.
Schedule |
| Quota management areas | |||
| Names | Reference numbers | Total allowable catches (greenweight tonnes) | |
| A | Auckland (East), Auckland (West), and Central (Egmont) combined | 1, 8, & 9 | 800 |
Dated at Wellington this 25th day of September 2006.
Jim Anderton,
Minister of Fisheries.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This notice, which comes into force on 30 September 2006, amends the Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Notice 1986.
The amendment varies the total allowable commercial catch for orange roughy in quota management areas 1, 8, and 9 (Auckland (East), Auckland (West), and Central (Egmont) combined) by reducing it from 1 400 to 800 greenweight tonnes. Under section 20(4) of the Fisheries Act 1996, the variation has effect on and from 1 October 2006.
Under section 2(4) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1990, references in the principal notice to the “total allowable catch”
of a species are read as references to the “total allowable commercial catch”
of the species.
Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.
Date of notification in Gazette: 28 September 2006.