Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 2) 2010 (No. F513)

Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Acting Customary Relationship Manager (Deed of Settlement Implementation Programme) 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. 2) 2010.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 5 February 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 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 for the management of customary food-gathering within an area/rohe moana.
(c) "area/rohe moana" means the area from the Kawatiri/Buller River to Kahurangi Point. The area extends seaward to the limit of the "South Island fisheries waters", as defined under Regulation 2 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, and inland to boundaries defined for Te Runaka o Kati Waewae under Te Runanga
o Ngai Tahu Act 1996.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki Te Runanga
o Ngati Waewae, 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 Rick Barber as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki On
14 December 2009, the Minister of Fisheries confirmed, under Regulation 9(1) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the appointment of Rick Barber as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering in the area/rohe moana. The
five-year appointment will expire on 4 February 2015.
5. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food-gathering A 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 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 without an authorisation from a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of February 2010.
JUDITH MACDONALD, Acting Customary Relationship Manager (Deed of Settlement Implementation Programme), Ministry of Fisheries.