Notice Type
Departmental
Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 8) 1999 (No. F109) Pursuant to regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, the Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control 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 1999. (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 and confirmed in clause 4 of this notice; (c) Any reference to area/rohe moana means the area from Koukourrata Harbour south to Waihora via Kaitura Valley, and all of the eastern bays and coastline of Banks Peninsula from Koukourrata to Phatu pa (Flea Bay), extending seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters as defined under regulation 2 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, being the 200 mile limit. 3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki Te Runaka o Koukourrata, being the tangata whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana, have nominated Graeme Grennell, Meri Crofts, Walton Wereta and Te Maraeroa Rr as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana. 4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki The Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control hereby confirms the appointment of Graeme Grennell, Meri Crofts, Walton Weret and Te Maraeroa Rr as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food gathering for the area/rohe moana. 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 may authorise any individual to take fisheries resources managed under the Fisheries Acts 1983 and 1996 for customary food gathering purposes from within the whole or any part of the area/rohe moana. No customary food gathering of fisheries resources may take place in the area/rohe moana without authorisation from the Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki. Dated at Wellington this 27th day of January 1999. Hon. DAVID CARTER, Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control.
Publication Date
4 Feb 1999

Notice Number

1999-go799

Page Number

365