Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 1) 2008 (No. F435)

Pursuant to Regulation 9(2) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Programme Manager (Deed of Settlement Implementation Programme) at the Ministry of Fisheries (acting pursuant to a delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1988) 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 (No. 1) 2008.
(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 for the management of customary food-gathering within an area/rohe moana;
(c) “area/rohe moana” means the area from the Clarence River to the Hurunui River, extending seaward from each point in an easterly direction to the limit of
the South Island fisheries waters (as defined in Regulation 2 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999), as well as inland to the boundaries defined for Te Runanga
o Kaikoura in Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—Te Runanga o Kaikoura, being the tangata whenua who holds manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana (as represented by
Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), has nominated Mark Solomon as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—On
14 February 2008, the Associate Minister of Fisheries confirmed, under Regulation (9)(1) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the appointment of Mark Solomon as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering in the area/rohe moana. The appointment is for five years commencing the day this notice comes into effect.
5. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food-gathering—A 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 for which they have been appointed as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki. 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 Wellington this 28th day of February 2008.
RAYMOND NECKLEN, Programme Manager (Deed
of Settlement Implementation Programme), Ministry of Fisheries.