Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Acting 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.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 14) 2013.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 18 September 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-Te Runaka
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 Maureen Jones, Graham Metzger, Huhana Morgan, Maria Pera, Phillip Smith, Richard Squires and Gail Thompson as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana for further five-year terms.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-(1) On
26 August 2013, the Minister for Primary Industries appointed, under Regulation 9(5) of the Fisheries
(South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, Maureen Jones, Graham Metzger, Huhana Morgan,
Maria Pera, Phillip Smith, Richard Squires and Gail Thompson as 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 and Oraka-Aparima and the Hokonui 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 appointments described in clause 4(1) will expire
on 17 September 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 9th day of September 2013.
STACEY WHITIORA, Acting Director Maori Partnership Implementation, Ministry for Primary Industries (acting under delegated authority).