NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 141 15 SEPTEMBER 2011

Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998

Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 15) 2011 (No. F608)

Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, the Fisheries Manager Customary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (acting pursuant to a delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1988) gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 15) 2011.

(2) This notice shall come into effect on 15 September 2011.

2. Interpretation—In this notice:

(a) “customary food-gathering” has the same meaning as defined in Regulation 2 of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998.

(b) “Tangata Kaitiaki” are local dialect words that have the same meaning as “Tangata Kaitiaki/Tiaki”, a term that is defined in Regulation 2 of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998.

(c) “Tangata Kaitiaki” means the person or persons appointed under Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998 for the management of customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana.

(d) “area/rohe moana” means all that area of New Zealand fisheries waters enclosed by a line:

(i) commences at a point on the mean high-water mark at the mouth of the Poututu Stream (at 39°04.71'S 177°20.66'E); then

(ii) proceeds in a straight line in a south-easterly direction to a point offshore (at 39°16.01'S 177°27.19'E); then

(iii) proceeds in a straight line in a south-westerly direction to a point offshore (at 39°21.40'S 177°11.90'E); then

(iv) proceeds in a straight line in a north-westerly direction to a point on the mean high-water mark at the mouth of the Waikari River (at 39°10.10'S 177°05.40'E); then proceeds along the mean high-water mark in a north-westerly direction to the point of commencement.

The geographical coordinates named are in terms of the WGS84 datum.

3. Nomination of Tangata Kaitiaki—The Ngāti Pāhauwera Development Group and Tiaki Trust has nominated KukiGreen, Mardi Te Aho and Harry Tuapawa as Tangata Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana.

4. Appointment of Tangata Kaitiaki—On 6 September 2011, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture confirmed, under Regulation 9(1) of the Fisheries (Kaimoana Customary Fishing) Regulations 1998, the appointment of Kuki Green, Mardi Te Aho and Harry Tuapawa as Tangata Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana.

5. Confirmation of tangata whenua—Ngāti Pāhauwera, as represented in respect to these appointments by the Ngāti Pāhauwera Development Group and Tiaki Trust, is confirmed as the tangata whenua of the area/rohe moana to which the appointment of Tangata Kaitiaki relates.

6. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food-gathering—A Tangata 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. No customary food-gathering of fisheries resources may take place in the area/rohe moana without an authorisation from a Tangata Kaitiaki.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of September 2011.

JUDITH MACDONALD, Fisheries Manager Customary, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

Conservation

Conservation Act 1987

Appointment of Members to Conservation Boards

Pursuant to sections 6P(8) and 6R(1) of the Conservation Act 1987, I, Catherine Joan (Kate) Wilkinson, Minister of Conservation, hereby appoint the persons named hereunder to serve as members of the specified conservation boards for a term commencing on 19 September 2011 and ending on 30 June 2014: