RED GURNARD PROPOSALS

The Ministries Management proposal as presented in the IPP

MFish recommends that:

1. a new five year programme for GUR 3 is implemented under the AMP and that:

2. the TAC is set at 706 tonnes;

3. allowances of 3 tonnes each for customary Maori and recreational catch are made within the TAC; and

4. the TACC is decreased from 900 to 700 tonnes;

the GUR 3 AMP be reviewed in 2005.