The Fisheries (Southern Blue Whiting Commercial Catch Limit) Notice 1999 (No. F130) Pursuant to section 11 (4) (a) of the Fisheries Act 1996, the Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control, 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 1999. (b) This notice shall come into effect on the day after its publication 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 north of a line at 50 degrees 30 minutes South, such a line extending in the west to 168 degrees 30 minutes East, and in the east to 176 degrees East. This area is bounded in the west by a line extending due north from a point at 168 degrees 30 minutes East, and in the east by a line extending due north from a point at 176 degrees 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 in the west to 168 degrees, 30 minutes East, and in the east to 176 degrees East. This area is bounded in the west by a line extending due south from a point at 168 degrees 30 minutes East, and in the east by a line extending due south from a point at 176 degrees East; (e) Auckland Islands means all that area of Quota Management Area 6 west of 168 degrees 30 minutes East; and (f) 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 until 31 October 1999: Area tonnes Campbell Island Rise 35 460 Bounty Platform 14 000 Pukaki Rise 5 500 Auckland Islands 1 640 4. Revocation The Fisheries (Southern Blue Whiting Commercial Catch Limit) Notice 1998 (No. F97) is hereby revoked. Dated at Wellington this 24th day of August 1999. Hon. JOHN LUXTON, Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control.