Fisheries (Total Allowable Catch, Total Allowable Commercial Catch, and Deemed Value Rates) Amendment Notice 2018

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Fisheries (Total Allowable Catch, Total Allowable Commercial Catch, and Deemed Value Rates) Amendment Notice 2018

Pursuant to sections 13 and 20 of the Fisheries Act 1996, the Minister of Fisheries gives the following notice after complying with sections 11, 12, 13, and 21 of that Act.

Notice

1 Title

This notice is the Fisheries (Total Allowable Catch, Total Allowable Commercial Catch, and Deemed Value Rates) Amendment Notice 2018.

2 Commencement

This notice comes into force on 31 March 2018.

3 Application

This notice applies on and from the first day of the fishing year starting on 1 April 2018.

5 Schedule 1 amended

In Schedule 1, replace each item in columns 2 and 3 that relates to a fishstock code specified in column 1 of the Schedule of this notice with the corresponding item in the Schedule.

Schedule Items replaced in Schedule 1

cl 5

Column 1Column 2Column 3
Fishstock codeTACTACC
CRA2173.00080.000
CRA4513.800318.800
CRA7117.00097.000
CRA81 161.7001 070.700
SBW6B3 2093 145
SCC35448
SCC7B1714

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of March 2018.

Hon Stuart Nash,
Minister of Fisheries.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice amends the Fisheries (Total Allowable Catch, Total Allowable Commercial Catch, and Deemed Value Rates) Notice 2015 (the principal notice). It comes into force on 31 March 2018, and applies from the first day of the fishing year starting on 1 April 2018.

The amendments to Schedule 1 of the principal notice vary the total allowable catch (TAC) and the total allowable commercial catch (TACC) for 7 quota management stocks with certain fishstock codes.

The variations are as follows:

  • Rock lobster—spiny (red)

  • for CRA2,—

    • TAC is decreased from 416.500 to 173.000 greenweight tonnes:

    • TACC is decreased from 200.000 to 80.000 greenweight tonnes:

  • for CRA4,—

    • TAC is increased from 484.000 to 513.800 greenweight tonnes:

    • TACC is increased from 289.000 to 318.800 greenweight tonnes:

  • for CRA7,—

    • TAC is decreased from 132.520 to 117.000 greenweight tonnes:

    • TACC is decreased from 112.520 to 97.000 greenweight tonnes:

  • for CRA8,—

    • TAC is increased from 1 053.000 to 1 161.700 greenweight tonnes:

    • TACC is increased from 962.000 to 1 070.700 greenweight tonnes:

  • Southern blue whiting

  • for SBW6B,—

    • TAC is increased from 2 426 to 3 209 greenweight tonnes:

    • TACC is increased from 2 377 to 3 145 greenweight tonnes:

  • Sea cucumber

  • for SCC3,—

    • TAC is increased from 5 to 54 greenweight tonnes:

    • TACC is increased from 2 to 48 greenweight tonnes:

  • for SCC7B,—

    • TAC is increased from 8 to 17 greenweight tonnes:

    • TACC is increased from 5 to 14 greenweight tonnes.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 28 March 2018.

This notice is administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries.