Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, and acting under delegated authority, the Associate Minister of Fisheries hereby 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. 57) 2004.
(2) This notice shall come into effect the day after the date of its notification in the New Zealand Gazette.
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 or 10 of
the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for a general customary food gathering area/rohe moana and confirmed in clause 4 of this notice.
(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 therefore 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-Hokonui Runaka, being the tangata whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana, has nominated Rodney Alfred Ryan as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-The Associate Minister of Fisheries hereby confirms the appointment of Rodney Alfred Ryan as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food gathering for the area/rohe moana. The appointment is for a term of five years commencing the day this notice comes into effect.
5. Power to authorise taking of fisheries resources for customary food gathering-The Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki may authorise any individual to take fisheries resources managed under the Fisheries Acts 1983 and 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 authorisation of a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of June 2004.
PAREKURA HOROMIA, Associate Minister of Fisheries.