Pursuant to Regulation 10 of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, the Acting Customary Relationship 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 (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 10) 2009.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 18 December 2009.
2. Interpretation In this notice:
(a) "customary food-gathering" has the same meaning as defined in the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998.
(b) "Kaitiaki" is a local dialect word that has the same meaning as "Tangata Kaitiaki/Tiaki", a term that is defined in the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998.
(c) "Kaitiaki" means the person or persons appointed under Regulations 9 or 10 of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998 for the management of customary food-gathering within
the area/rohe moana.
(d) "area/rohe moana" means all those waters of the Aotea Harbour and adjacent coastline enclosed in an area bounded by a line commencing at the mean high-water mark commencing at Matawha Point
(at 37°55.2’S and 174°46.5’E); then proceeding by a straight line in a southerly direction to the mean high-water mark at Kahua Point (at 38°02.1’S and 174°47’E); then following the line of the mean
high-water mark within the estuarine waters of Aotea Harbour to the northern harbour entrance
at Potahi Point, then in a northerly direction along the mean high-water mark to the point of commencement.
3. Request to cancel appointment Nga Hapu o Aotea Moana, as represented by Ngati Te Wehi-Okapu Marae, being the tangata whenua who nominated Davis Bobby Anthony Apiti as a Tangata Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana, has requested in writing the cancellation of his appointment as a Tangata Kaitiaki.
4. Cancellation of appointment On 8 December 2009, the Minister of Fisheries cancelled, under Regulation 10(1) of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, the appointment of Davis Bobby Anthony Apiti as a Tangata Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana.
Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 2009.
JUDITH MACDONALD, Acting Customary Relationship Manager (Deed of Settlement Implementation Programme), Ministry of Fisheries.