The Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve Fishing Notice 1997 Pursuant to section 3 (3) of the Marine Reserves Act 1971 (as amended by section 50 of the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990), the Minister of Conservation hereby gives the following notice. N o t i c e 1. Title and commencement (1) This notice may be cited as the Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve Fishing Notice 1997. (2) This notice shall come into force on the 6th day of June 1997. 2. Interpretation In this notice the expression ``the reserve'' means the reserve constituted under the Marine Reserve (Poor Knights Islands) Order 1981*. 3. Certain fishing permitted in reserve (1) Except as provided in subclauses (2) to (4) of this clause, any person may take fish within the reserve in accordance with subclause (5) of this clause. (2) Nothing in this clause shall permit fishing by any person holding a permit issued under Part IV of the Fisheries Act 1983. (3) No person shall fish in any area of the reserve described in the Schedule to this notice. (4) No person shall use a light of any description as a lure in any fishing activities in the reserve. (5) Any person permitted under this clause to take fish in any area of the reserve not referred to in the Schedule to this notice may take the following kinds of fish only, and by the following methods only: (a) Shark, billfish, tuna, mackerel, and kahawai, by trolling or by spear; (b) Snapper and trevally, by floating line (excluding leaded lines and lines with sinkers or other weights other than bait) or by spear; (c) Kingfish, pink maomao, and barracouta, by trolling, by spear, or by floating line (excluding leaded lines and lines with sinkers or other weights other than bait). 4. Expiry of notice This notice shall expire with the close of the 30th day of September 1997. Schedule Areas of the Reserve Within Which No Fishing Permitted Area A: All that area of the South Pacific Ocean adjacent to the south-east coast of Aorangi Island enclosed by a line commencing at mean low water mark on Aorangi Island at the western entrance to the channel between Aorangi and Archway Islands, then by a straight line in a south-easterly direction to the north-west point of Archway Island, then by mean low water mark around the western and southern coast of Archway Island and across the southern entrance of the archway penetrating that island to the south-east point of that island, then by a straight line to the south-west point of Aorangaia Island, then by mean low water mark around the east coast of Aorangaia Island and across the entrance to the archway penetrating Aorangaia Island to the northernmost point of that island, then by a straight line to mean low water mark on Aorangi Island at Ramariki Point, then by mean low water mark in a south-westerly direction to the point of commencement. Area B: All that area of the South Pacific Ocean adjacent to the northern and north-western coast of Aorangi Island enclosed by a line commencing at mean low water mark at Kahawai Point on Aorangi Island, then by a straight line to the southernmost point of Kaka Rock, by mean low water mark around the western side of the rock to the northernmost point of that rock, then in a north-easterly direction by straight lines joining the north-west and northernmost points respectively of the 2 larger islets between Aorangi and Tawhiti Rahi Islands, then by a straight line to the eastern point of Crater Bay on Aorangi Island, then by mean low water mark in the north-westerly direction, then south-westerly direction to the point of commencement. Dated at Wellington this 30th day of May 1997. NICK SMITH, Minister of Conservation. * S.R. 1981/16. 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 the 6th day of June 1997, re-enacts the Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve Fishing Notice 1989. The notice expires on the 30th day of September 1997.