Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 7) 2011 (No. F628)

Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, 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 (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 7) 2011.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 30 September 2011.
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) any reference to "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 the area/rohe moana.
(c) "area/rohe moana" means the area from Kuri Bush to the Tokomairiro River, extending seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters as defined in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, being the 200-mile limit, and inland to boundaries defined for Te Runanga o Otakou in Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu (Declaration Membership) Order 2001.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Te Runanga o Otakou, 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 Hoani Langsbury as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana for a further term.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-On
13 September 2011, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture appointed, under Regulation 9(5) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, Hoani Langsbury as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering in the area/rohe moana for a further term. The appointment will expire on 15 April 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. 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 20th day of September 2011.
JUDITH MACDONALD, Fisheries Manager Customary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.