Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 11) 2010 (No. F569)

Pursuant to Regulation 9 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. 11) 2010.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 23 December 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 all that area of waters from Heywood Point to Blackhead, extending seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters as defined in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, being the 200-mile limit; and inland to boundaries defined
for Te Runanga o Otakou in the First Schedule of
Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-The Korako Karetai Trust, being representative of tangata whenua who hold manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana
(as represented by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), has nominated Robert Leggat (Paul) Karaitana, Tawhiri George Karetai and Paul Kemp as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana for further terms.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-On
8 November 2010, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture appointed, under Regulation 9(5) of the Fisheries
(South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, Robert Leggat (Paul) Karaitana, Tawhiri George Karetai and Paul Kemp as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary
food-gathering within the area/rohe moana for further
five-year terms. The appointments will expire on
22 December 2015.
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 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 26th day of November 2010.
GAVIN LOCKWOOD, Deputy Chief Executive Fisheries Management, Ministry of Fisheries.