Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 3) 2010 (No. F529)

Pursuant to Regulations 9 and 22 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Deputy Chief Executive Fisheries Management at the Ministry of Fisheries (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. 3) 2010.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 7 May 2010.
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 21 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 for the management of customary food-gathering within an area/rohe moana or a mataitai reserve.
(c) "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.
(d) "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 (at 43°36.951'S and 172°40.95'E); then along the mean high-water mark to the point of commencement.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Te Hapu
o Ngati Wheke (Rapaki Runanga), representing the whanau and hapu of Ngai Tahu Whanui holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana and the mataitai reserve (as represented by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), has nominated Tutehounuku (Nuku) Korako and Kahu Phillips as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana and the mataitai reserve for five-year terms.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-On 20 April 2010, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture confirmed, under Regulation 9(1) and Regulation 21(1) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the appointment of Tutehounuku (Nuku) Korako and Kahu Phillips as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering in the area/rohe moana and the mataitai reserve. The five-year appointments will expire on 29 April 2015.
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 for which
they have been appointed as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki. No customary food-gathering of fisheries resources may take place in the area/rohe moana or the mataitai reserve without an authorisation from a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of May 2010.
GAVIN LOCKWOOD, Deputy Chief Executive Fisheries Management, Ministry of Fisheries.