Pursuant to Regulations 25 and 26 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Minister of Fisheries gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (Declaration of Koukourarata Mataitai Reserve Bylaws) Notice 2001.
(2) This notice shall come into effect the day after the date of its notification in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Interpretation-In this notice:
(a) The term "Koukourarata mataitai reserve" means the mataitai reserve at Koukourarata (Port Levy), Banks Peninsula notified in the Fisheries (Declaration of Mataitai Reserve) Notice 2000 (New Zealand Gazette, 14 December 2000, No. 167, page 4350).
(b) Any reference to "Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki" means any person or persons appointed as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the Koukourarata mataitai reserve under Regulation 21 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
(c) "Cockle" means mollusc Chione (austrovenus) stuchburyi.
3. Notice of approved bylaw for the Koukourarata Mataitai Reserve-The Minister of Fisheries gives notice that he has approved the following bylaw for the mataitai reserve at Koukourarata, Banks Peninsula:
"No person may take any cockle from the Koukourarata mataitai reserve or be in possession of any cockle taken from that area".
4. Fishing subject to these bylaws-Under Regulations 25 (3) and 43 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, all fishing within the Koukourarata mataitai reserve is subject to these bylaws.
Dated at Wellington this 18th day of September 2001.
PETE HODGSON, Minister of Fisheries.