Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice 1998 (No. F95) Pursuant to regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, the Minister of Fisheries hereby gives the following notice. N o t i c e 1. Title and commencement (1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice 1998. (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 ``Customary food gathering'' has the same meaning as defined in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998. (b) Any reference to ``Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki'' means the person or persons appointed under regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998 as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for a general customary food gathering area/rohe moana. 3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki Te Hapu o Ngati Wheke Rapaki, being the tangata whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the area from Heathcote Bridge and Port Levy to Waihora (area of the 1849 Port Cooper Deed), have nominated Wiremu Gillies and Henry Couch as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area from the Heathcote River Outlet to Adderley Head, including the whole of Lyttelton Harbour. 4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki The Minister of Fisheries hereby confirms the appointment of Wiremu Gillies and Henry Couch as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food gathering from the Heathcote River outlet to Adderley Head; including the whole of Lyttelton Harbour. The appointment is for a term of 5 years commencing the day this notice comes into effect. 5. Power to authorise taking of fisheries resources for customary food gathering The Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki appointed under these regulations may authorise any individual to take fisheries resources managed under the 1983 and 1996 Fisheries Acts for customary food gathering purposes from within the whole or any part of the above area. No customary food gathering of these resources may take place in this area without authorisation from the Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki. Dated at Wellington this 19th day of August 1998. Hon. JOHN LUXTON, Minister of Fisheries.