Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 12) 2011 (No. F597)

Pursuant to Regulation 10 of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, the Fisheries Manager Customary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (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. 12) 2011.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 15 July 2011.
2. Interpretation-In this notice:
(a) "customary food-gathering" has the same meaning as defined in the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998.
(b) "Tangata Kaitiaki" are local dialect words that have the same meaning as "Tangata Kaitiaki/Tiaki", a term that is defined in the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998.
(c) "Tangata Kaitiaki" means the person or persons appointed under Regulation 9 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 the area described by a line commencing at a point on the line of mean
high-water springs at the mouth of the Waikato River, being Okarahia (37°22.35'S, 174°42.33'E); then southerly following the line of mean high-water springs to Ngatutura Point (37°31.22'S, 174°44.66'E); then due west to the Exclusive Economic Zone; then northerly following the Exclusive Economic Zone
to a point due west of the point of commencement; then due east to the point of commencement. The geographical coordinates named are in terms of
the WGS84 datum.
3. Nomination of Tangata Kaitiaki-Nga Kaitiaki o Te Puaha, as represented by Oraeroa Marae, has nominated Kenneth Kiripaura Clark and Hurricane Jim Thompson as
a Tangata Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana.
4. Appointment of Tangata Kaitiaki-On 4 July 2011, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture confirmed, under Regulation 9(1) of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, the appointment of Kenneth Kiripaura Clark and Hurricane Jim Thompson as Tangata Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within
the area/rohe moana.
5. Confirmation of tangata whenua-Nga Kaitiaki o Te Puaha is confirmed as the tangata whenua of the area/rohe moana to which the appointment of the Tangata Kaitiaki relates. Nga Kaitiaki o Te Puaha is represented by Oraeroa, Tauranganui, Te Awamarahi, Te Kotahitanga and Tikirahi Marae.
6. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food-gathering-A Tangata Kaitiaki appointed for the area/rohe moana 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. No customary food-gathering of fisheries resources may take place in the area/rohe moana without an authorisation from a Tangata Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 12th day of July 2011.
JUDITH MACDONALD, Fisheries Manager Customary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.