Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 2) 2005 (No. F321)

Pursuant to Regulations 9, 21 and 22 of the Fisheries
(South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, a senior fisheries management advisor of the Ministry of Fisheries (acting pursuant to a delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1998) 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. 2) 2005.
(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) “area/rohe moana” means an area from Shag Rock, South Shore Spit, to Adderley Head, excluding the Avon/Heathcote Estuary, and extending seaward
to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters as defined in Regulation 2 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
(c) “mataitai reserve” means a traditional fishing
ground at Rapaki Bay encompassing those waters which lie inside straight lines drawn from Cass Bay Church Reserve boundary (at 43°36.78'S and 172°41.6'E) to Windy Point (at 43°36.895'S
and 172°40.4'E) to the 1C Taukahara boundary (43°36.951'S and 172°40.95'E); then along the mean high water mark to the point of commencement.
(b) “Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki” means the person or persons appointed under Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana and the person or persons appointed under Regulation 21 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the mataitai reserve.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—The Rapaki Runanga, being representative of tangata whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana and the mataitai reserve, has nominated Donald Couch and Melville Rehu as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana and the mataitai reserve.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—On
1 February 2005, the Associate Minister of Fisheries
(acting pursuant to a delegated authority) confirmed
the appointment of Donald Couch and Melville Rehu
as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food gathering in the area/rohe moana and the mataitai reserve. The appointments are for five-year terms 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 Act 1996 for customary food gathering purposes from within the whole or any part of
the area/rohe moana and the mataitai reserve. No customary food gathering of fisheries resources may take place in the area/rohe moana and the mataitai reserve without an authorisation from a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 28th day of February 2005.
J. CORNELIUS, Senior Fisheries Management Advisor, Ministry of Fisheries.