Fisheries (Quota Aggregation Limit Exemption) Notice (No. 1) 1999 (No. F114) Pursuant to section 28w (3) of the Fisheries Act 1983, the Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control, after consultation with the New Zealand Fishing Industry Board and the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission and after having regard to the provisions of section 28w (5) of the Fisheries Act 1983, hereby gives the following notice: N o t i c e 1. Title and commencement (a) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (Quota Aggregation Limit Exemption) Notice (No. 1) 1999. (b) This notice shall come into effect on the day after its notification in the New Zealand Gazette. 2. Interpretation In this notice the ``Moana Pacific Group'' means Moana Pacific Fisheries Limited, Moana Pacific Quota Holdings Limited and Moana Fishing Limited, and any companies owned or controlled by those companies. 3. Exemption to quota aggregation limit As from the date that this notice comes into effect, the Moana Pacific Group is permitted to hold quota and interest in quota in excess of the aggregation limits as provided in section 28w (1) of the Fisheries Act 1983, up to, and including, the percentage limits as specified below: (i) An aggregation limit of 45 percent of the combined Total Allowable Commercial Catch (TACC) for each of the following species: Alfonsino Ling Barracouta Orange Roughy Blue Warehou Oreo Dories Gemfish Packhorse Rock Lobster Hake Red Cod Hoki Silver Warehou Jack Mackerel Squid (ii) An aggregation limit of 20 percent of the TACC for paua in any one quota management area. (iii) An aggregation limit of 35 percent of the combined TACC for blue nose. (iv) Aggregation limits for spiny rock lobster in the quota management areas specified in the following table: Fishstock Quota Aggregation Limit % CRA 1 31% CRA 2 21% CRA 3 23% CRA 4 22.96% CRA 9 12% (v) In any other case, an aggregation limit of 35 percent of the combined TACC for every stock of that species. Dated at Wellington this 16th day of March 1999. JOHN LUXTON, Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control.