Pursuant to Regulation 9 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. 12) 2008.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 18 September 2008.
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 or 10 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 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 therefore 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—The Tuatapere Whanau, being the tangata whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana (as represented by
Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu through the Oraka-Aparima Runaka), and the Oraka-Aparima Runaka, being the tangata whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana (as represented by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), have nominated Neil Herrick and Bob Warren (Tuatapere Whanau) and Katherine Barrett-Rawiri, Stewart Bull, Jane Davis, Ann Johnstone, Muriel Johnstone, Betty Rickus and Robina Thomson as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana for further five-year terms.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—On 14 August 2008, the Associate Minister of Fisheries confirmed, under Regulation 9(5) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the reappointment of Katherine Barrett-Rawiri, Stewart Bull, Jane Davis, Ann Johnstone, Muriel Johnstone, Neil Herrick, Betty Rickus, Robina Thomson and Bob Warren as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana. The appointments are for five years commencing on 18 September 2008.
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 Nelson this 2nd day of September 2008.
RAYMOND NECKLEN, Programme Manager (Deed
of Settlement Implementation Programme), Ministry of Fisheries.