Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 8) 2009 (No. F492)

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. 8) 2009.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 14 August 2009.
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 north bank of the Pouerua River to the Hokitika River. The area extends seaward to the limit of the “South Island fisheries waters” as defined under Regulation 2 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, and inland to boundaries defined for Te Runanga o Makawhio and Te Runaka o Kati Waewae under Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—Te Runanga o Ngati Waewae, representing the whanau and hapu of Ngai Tahu Whanui holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana (as represented by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), has nominated Benjamine Hutana and Rick Barber
as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—On 5 August 2009, the Minister of Fisheries confirmed, under Regulation 9(1) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the appointment of Benjamine Hutana and Rick Barber as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering in the area/rohe moana. The
five-year appointments will expire on 13 August 2014.
5. Power to authorise 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 11th day of August 2009.
RAYMOND NECKLEN, Programme Manager (Deed
of Settlement Implementation Programme), Ministry of Fisheries.