The Fisheries (Southern Scallop Fishery Rotational Fishing) Notice 1997 (No. F64) Pursuant to section 28zzf (2) of the Fisheries Act 1983 and acting pursuant to delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1988, the Manager Fisheries Services, Ministry of Fisheries hereby makes the following notice: N o t i c e 1. Title and commencement (1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (Southern Scallop Fishery Rotational Fishing) Notice 1997. (2) This notice shall come into effect the day after its notification in the New Zealand Gazette. 2. Interpretation In this notice any reference to the Southern Scallop Fishery means the fishery described as SCA7 in Part III of the First Schedule to the Fisheries Act 1996. 3. Rotational Fishing Areas No commercial fisherman shall take scallops from the following defined areas within the waters of the Southern Scallop Fishery. (a) Area A The area contained by a straight line from the outer leading light at Collingwood (at approximately 40 40.7 S and 172 41.0 E) to Bush End Point Light, Farewell Spit (at approximately 40 32.9 S and 173 00.6 E) and then back along the mean high water mark to the point of commencement at the outer leading light at Collingwood at approximately 40 40.7 S and 172 41.0 E. (b) Area D Those waters enclosed by a straight line commencing near Totaranui at approximately 40 49.0 S and 173 00.9 E to the outer edge of Separation Point Coral Patch at approximately 40 47.7 S and 173 07.7 E to a point in mid Tasman Bay at 41 02.8 S and 173 16.1 E to Fishermans Island at approximately 40 59.7 S and 173 03.1 E to Guilbert Point at approximately 40 59.5 S and 173 02.2 E and then back along the mean high water mark to the point of commencement at a point near Totaranui at 40 49.0 S and 173 00.9 E. (c) Areas F, G and H: Those waters enclosed by a straight line commencing at Motueka at approximately 41 08.3 S and 173 01.3 E to a point in mid Tasman Bay at 41 02.8 S to 173 16.1 E to Okuri Point at approximately 40 58.6 S and 173 45.7 E and then back along the mean high water mark to Motueka at approximately 41 08.3 S and 173 01.3 E. 4. Cancellation of Previous Notice The Fisheries (Southern Scallop Fishery Rotational Fishing) Notice (No. 2) 1996 (No. F46) published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 24th day of October 1996, No. 155, at page 4110 is hereby cancelled. Dated at Wellington this 18th day of August 1997. L. A. CAMPBELL, Manager, Fisheries Services, Ministry of Fisheries (acting pursuant to delegated authority).