The Fisheries (Southern Blue Whiting Commercial Catch Limit) Notice 1998 (No. F97) Pursuant to section 11 (4) (a) of the Fisheries Act 1996, the Minister of Fisheries, hereby makes the following notice: N o t i c e 1. Title and commencement (a) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (Southern Blue Whiting Commercial Catch Limit) Notice 1998. (b) This notice shall come into effect on the day after its notification in the New Zealand Gazette. 2. Interpretation In this notice: (a) any reference to the Quota Management Area 6 means the Quota Management Area 6 as defined in the Fisheries (Quota Management Areas, Total Allowable Catches, and Catch Histories) Notice 1986; (b) Bounty Platform means all that area within Quota Management Area 6 east of 176 degrees east; (c) Pukaki Rise means all that area within Quota Management Area 6 west of 176 degrees east, excluding an area whose northern boundary runs along a line at 50 degrees, 30 minutes south, and where that area's western boundary lies at 168 degrees, 30 minutes east; (d) Campbell Island Rise means all that area within Quota Management Area 6 south of a line at 50 degrees 30 minutes south, such a line extending: (i) in the west to 168 degrees, 30 minutes east, and hence by a line due south at that point; and (ii) in the east to 176 degrees east, and hence by a line due south at that point; (e) SBW means southern blue whiting as defined in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Fisheries (Reporting) Regulations 1990. 3. Commercial catch limit As from the date this notice comes into effect, the following commercial catch limits for SBW apply: Area tonnes Campbell Island Rise 35 460 Bounty Platform 15 400 Pukaki Rise 7 140 4. Revocation The Fisheries (Southern Blue Whiting Commercial Catch Limit) Notice 1997 (No. F66) is hereby revoked. Dated at Wellington this 18th day of August 1998. Hon. JOHN LUXTON, Minister of Fisheries.