The Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve Fishing Notice 1997 (No. 2) 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 (No. 2). (2) This notice shall come into force on the 1st day of October 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 1996. (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 1998. 5. Revocation The Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve Fishing Notice 1997 is hereby revoked. Schedule Areas of the Reserve Within Which No Fishing Permitted All that area of the South Pacific Ocean containing 640 hectares, more or less, being the area marked ``B'' on S.O. Plan 69061 and being the area south of the line shown as dissecting the areas marked ``A'' and ``B'' on S.O. Plan 69061 and being also within a line, every point of which is (with the exception of the northern boundary where the dissecting line on S.O. Plan 69061 marks the boundary) 800 metres out from mean low water spring tide on Aorangi Island, Aorangaia Island, Archway Island and Kaka Rock. Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of September 1997. NICK SMITH, Minister of Conservation. * S.R. 1981/16. New Zealand Gazette, 5 June 1997, page 1318. 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 1st day of October 1997, revokes the earlier Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve Fishing Notice 1997. The new notice closes an area around Aorangi Island, Aorangaia Island, Archway Island and Kaka Rock to all fishing. Limited fishing as to kinds of fish and methods of fishing is permitted in the rest of the reserve. The notice expires on 30th day of September 1998.