Pursuant to Regulation 10 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Fisheries Manager Customary 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) 2011.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 4 February 2011.
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 10 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 an area from Piopiotahi
to Tokata (Milford Sound to the Nuggets) 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 includes "South Island fisheries waters" about and within Rakiura and other offshore islands situated within the 200-mile limit); and from Tokata to Matau (the Nuggets to the Clutha River) 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 boundaries defined for Te Runanga o Awarua under Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Te Runanga
o Awarua, 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 Sharon Malofie as a replacement Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the late George Ryan for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-On
25 January 2011, the Minister of Fisheries and
Aquaculture appointed, under Regulation 10(2) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, Sharon Malofie as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana. The five-year appointment will expire on 3 February 2016.
5. Power to authorise 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 1st day of February 2011.
JUDITH MACDONALD, Fisheries Manager Customary, Ministry of Fisheries.