Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, a senior fisheries management advisor of the Ministry of Fisheries (acting pursuant to a delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1998) 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 2005 (No. 5).
(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) “customary food gathering” has the same meaning as defined in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
(b) “Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki” means the person or persons appointed under Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana.
(c) the “area/rohe moana” means the area from Piopiotahi to Tokata extending seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters as defined under Regulation
2 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, being the 200 mile limit, and inland to the boundaries defined for Te Runanga
o Awarua, Te Runanga o Oraka Aparima, Hokonui Runaka and Waihopai Runaka in the First Schedule of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996. The area/rohe moana includes South Island fisheries waters about and within Rakiura, and other offshore islands situated within the 200 mile limit.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—Jodi Shayne Cameron and Cyril Raymond Gilroy were nominated as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki by the Waihopai Runaka. Their appointments were confirmed by the Minister of Fisheries by way of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 23) 2000 (No. F162). The Waihopai Runaka, being the tangata whenua who holds manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana (as represented by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), has nominated Jodi Shayne Cameron and Cyril Raymond Gilroy as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana for a further period of five years.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—On
5 September 2005, the Associate Minister of Fisheries (acting pursuant to a delegated authority) confirmed the appointment of Jodi Shayne Cameron and Cyril Raymond Gilroy as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food gathering in the area/rohe moana. The appointments are for five 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 Act 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 an authorisation from a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Dunedin this 12th day of September 2005.
R. GRINDLEY, Senior Fisheries Management Advisor, Ministry of Fisheries.