New Zealand Gazette – 2005 – No. 194

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✨ Tribunal Report on Akaroa Harbour Taiāpure Application



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the taiāpure local fishery concept has been embraced by the Akaroa community as a means of
delivering benefit not only to tangata whenua, but to all those who have an interest in the
sustainability of Akaroa Harbour as a fishery, as an ecosystem, and as an integral part of the
holistic Māori concept of te taiao.

We heard submissions from a number of groups and individuals. Most had devoted a good
deal of time and effort to formulating a submission that conveyed to us a clear point of view,
and the reasons for it. Significantly, no submitter asked the panel not to recommend the
establishment of a taiāpure. Lack of consensus about the proposal related only to the size of
the taiāpure, and the location of its boundaries.

We are optimistic about this taiāpure achieving its objectives.

Akaroa Harbour is an enclosed body of water that is effectively part of the public domain in
which many different groups and individuals have interests. It seemed to us that there was an
acceptance in the community that there is really no alternative to all of these parties working
together. The taiāpure model provides a vehicle for this. The various interest groups will be
represented on the management committee, and will operate under the mana of the rūnaka. It
seemed to us that this community has the potential to work within the taiāpure concept to
arrive at new and exciting arrangements for the use and management of this body of water,
and that those arrangements can deliver benefits to all.

Issue 8

In practice, how will the Management Committee work? Can it be sufficiently inclusive
of community interests, at the same time as delivering on the kaupapa Māori agenda of
the applicants?

In the case of this taiāpure application, the applicant rūnaka has already agreed with local
organisations the structure of the management committee. Those agreements were amended
as part of the accommodation reached with the marine farming interests, Akaroa Salmon and
Sea-Right.

It is now proposed that the committee will be constituted as follows:

  1. Chairperson from the Papatipu Rūnaka
  2. 2 representatives from the Ōnuku marae
  3. 1 representative from the Koukourārata Marae
  4. 2 representatives from the Wairewa marae
  5. 2 recreational fishers
  6. 2 commercial fishers
  7. 1 marine farmer
  8. 1 tourist operator
  9. 1 representative of local environmental interests

At the first hearing, it emerged as a key feature of this application that the taiāpure initiative
is seen not only as an endorsement of the mana of tangata whenua, but also as an opportunity
for the Pākehā community of Akaroa Harbour to be actively involved in managing and
protecting their harbour.

No one objected to the proposed membership of the management committee, but as noted
above, the membership now proposed by the applicant has changed. As part of the applicants’

50 "Te taiao" is the natural world.



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Fisheries, Tribunal, Akaroa Harbour, Taiāpure, Littoral waters, Estuarine waters, Māori interests, Treaty of Waitangi, Dan Rogers marine reserve, Management Committee, Community interests, Kaupapa Māori, Papatipu Rūnaka, Ōnuku marae, Koukourārata Marae, Wairewa marae, Recreational fishers, Commercial fishers, Marine farmer, Tourist operator, Environmental interests