Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Fees for Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 1983

1983/194 THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE (LICENCE FEES FOR FOREIGN FISHING CRAFT) REGULATIONS 1988 DAVID BEATIlE, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At the Government House at Wellington this 26th day of September 1983 Present: HIS ExCEll.ENCY THE GoVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL PURSUANT to section 22 of the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1977, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following regulations. REGULATIONS 1. Tide, commencement, and applicarion-e-G) These regulations may be cited as the Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Fees for Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 1983. (2) These regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of October 1983, and shall apply in respect of every licence granted under section 15 of the Act to have effect on and from that date. 2. Interpretation-(l) In these regulations, "Fish carrier" means a foreign fishing craft that is licensed to be used in the exclusive economic zone for the transportation of fish (and for the storage and refrigeration of fish for the purposes of transportation) but not for any other purpose relating to fishing: "Fish-carrying capacity", in relation to a fish carrier, means the amount (in tonnes) of the fish that the fish carrier is permitted by the conditions of its licence to carry in the exclusive economic zone: Price )5c 2 Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Feesfor Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 1983 1983/194 "Fisheries Management Area E" means all that part of the exclusive economic zone lying south of a line commencing in the west at a point on the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone at the 49° S parallel of latitude; and then proceeding due east to a point 49° S and 169°E; and then proceeding due north to a point 48° 30'S and 169°E; and then proceeding due east to a point 48° 30'S and 171° E; and then proceeding due north to a point 47° S and 171" E; and then proceeding due east to a point 47° S and 176° E; and then proceeding due north to a point 45° 30'S and 176°E; and then proceeding due east to a point on the eastern outer limit of the exclusive economic zone at the 45° 30'S parallel of latitude: "Support craft" means a foreign fishing craft that is licensed to be used in the exclusive economic zone for any activity relating to fishing, except for the taking of fish or as a fish carrier. (2) Where (a)The gross registered tonnage of a foreign fishing craft consists of a whole number of tons and a fraction of a ton; or (b) The fish-carrying capacity of a foreign fishing craft consists of a whole number of tonnes and a fraction of a tonne the fraction shall be deemed for the purposes of these regulations to be a whole. 3. Licence fees for foreign fishing craft-(1) Every person to whom a licence specified in the first column of the First Schedule to these regulations has been granted under section 15 of the Act shall pay to the Crown for the issue of that licence a fee at the rate specified in the second column of that Schedule in relation to the licence. (2) Notwithstanding subclause (1) of this regulation, where a licence as a fish carrier and a licence as a supply craft have been granted for the same period in respect of one foreign fishing craft (a)One fee only shall be payable for the issue of both licences; and (b) The fee payable shall be the higher of the amounts calculated in accordance with the First Schedule to these regulations for the 2 licences or, if the amounts are equal, the fee payable shall be one of those amounts only. 4. Place of payment-All fees payable under these regulations shall be paid to the Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries at Wellington. 5. Revocations-The regulations set out in the Second Schedule to these regulations are hereby consequentially revoked. 1983/194 Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Fees for Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 198.3 SCHEDULES FIRST SCHEDULE LICENCE FEES 3 Reg. 3 1. Licence to fish for squid by jigging 2. Licence to fish for squid by trawling 3. Licence to fish by trawling in Fisheries Management Area E 4. Licence to fish by trawling in areas other than Fisheries Management Area E 5. Licence to fish by bottom lining 6. Licence to fish for albacore and yellowfin tuna by longlining 7. Licence to fish for southern bluefin tuna by longlining 8. Licence to fish for skipjack tuna by purse-seining 9. Licence as a fish carrier .. 10. Licence as a support craft $20,250 a year to be paid before commencing fishing, plus $135 per tonne of fish taken by the craft in excess of 150 tonnes. $103 per tonne of fish that the craft is permitted by the conditions of its licence to take. $25 per tonne of fish that the craft is permitted by the conditions of its licence to take. $47 per tonne of fish that the craft is permitted by the conditions of its licence to take. $67 per tonne of fish that the craft is permitted by the conditions of its licence to take. $4,500 per year. $59,000 per year. $72 per tonne of fish taken by the craft. $3 per tonne of the fish carrying capacity of the craft for each voyage to the exclusive economic zone. $1.50 per gross registered ton of the craft for each voyage to the exclusive economic zone. 4 Reg. 5 Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Fees for Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 1983 SECOND SCHEDULE RECULATIONSREVOKED 1983/194 Title Serial Number The Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Fees for Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 1978 .. .. S.R. 1978/80 The Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Fees for Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 1978, Amendment No.4 S.R. 1980/65 The Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Fees for Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 1978, Amendment No.9 S.R. 1982/230 The Exclusive Economic Zone (Licence Fees for Foreign Fishing Craft) Regulations 1978, Amendment No. 10 S.R. 1983/49 P. G. MILLEN, Clerk of the Executive Council. EXPLANATORY NOTE This note is not part ofthe regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effea. These regulations consolidate and amend the regulations revoked by regulation 5, and also provide for an increase in the fees payable by foreign fishing craft for licences to fish in the exclusive economic zone for (alJig caught squid, from $15,000 to $20,250 a year per vessel, plus an increase from $100 per tonne to $135 per tonne for the catch taken by each craft in excess of 150 tonnes: (b) Trawl caught squid, from $83 to $103 per tonne of fish allocated: (c)Trawl caught finfish in Fisheries Management Area E. from $21 per tonne to $25 per tonne of fish allocated: (d)Trawl caught finfish in areas other than Fisheries Management Area E, from $35 per tonne to 547 per tonne of fish allocated: (e) Bottom longline caught finfish, from $40 per tonne to $67 per tonne of fish allocated: (f) Longline caught albacore and yellowfin tuna, from $3,000 per vessel to $4,500 per vessel: (g)Longline caught southern bluefin tuna, from $36,000 to $59,000 per year: (@ Purse·seine caught skipjack tuna, from $65 per tonne to $72 per tonne of fish taken: (i) Fish carrier, from $2 to $3 per tonne of the fish-carrying capacity of the craft: G) Support craft, from SI to $1.50 per gross registered ton of the craft. A change to the description of the boundaries of Fisheries Management Area E has also been made. Issued under the authority of the Regulations Act 1936. Date of notification in Gazette: 29 September 1983. These regulations are administered in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. WEWNGTON, NEW ZEAL4.ND. Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government by P. D. HASSELBERG, Government Printer-1983 4S02D-8SPT