Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 14) 2009 (No. F504)

Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the 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 (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 14) 2009.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 17 December 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 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—Te Runanga
o Awarua, 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 Stephanie Lenore Blair for a further term
as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary
food-gathering within the area/rohe moana.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—On
28 September 2009, the Minister of Fisheries appointed, under Regulation 9(5) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, Stephanie Lenore Blair as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana for a further period of five years. The five-year appointment will expire on 16 December 2014.
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 20th day of October 2009.
JUDITH MACDONALD, Customary Relationship Manager (Deed of Settlement Implementation Programme), Ministry of Fisheries.