Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 12) 2013 (Notice No. MPI 203)

Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Director Maori Partnership Implementation at the Ministry for Primary Industries (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. 12) 2013.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 23 August 2013.
2. Interpretation-(1) In this notice:
"area/rohe moana" means the area described in clause 4(1).
(2) Terms used in this notice have the same meaning as in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-The Hokonui Runanga, 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 Amanda Kingipotiki as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana for a specific term.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-(1) On 8 June 2013, the Minister for Primary Industries confirmed, under Regulation 9(1) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the appointment of Amanda Kingipotiki as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering in the area/rohe moana from Piopiotahi to Tokata (Milford Sound to the Nuggets). The area extends seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters, being the 200-mile limit, as well as inland to boundaries defined for Te Runanga o Awarua,
Te Runanga o Oraka Aparima, Hokonui Runaka and Waihopai Runaka in Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu (Declaration of Membership) Order 2001. The area includes South Island waters about and within Rakiura (Stewart Island) and other offshore islands situated within the exclusive economic zone.
(2) The appointment described in clause 4(1) will expire on 20 May 2018.
5. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food-gathering-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 19th day of August 2013.
KELLY DUNN, Director Maori Partnership Implementation, Ministry for Primary Industries (acting under delegated authority).