Haratua 2007
Issue 12

  1. New Shared Fisheries Proposal Put to Minister
  2. Scientists survey Taharoa eel populations
  3. Busy year begins with mandating iwi and protecting the settlement
  4. Ngai Tamanuhiri achieves inshore fisheries agreement
  5. Rob McLeod stands down from board
  6. Kiwis well-informed on sustainability and the health benefits of fish
  7. AFL buys Kia Ora Seafoods
  8. Maori shared fisheries submissions
  9. Maori MPs intervention delays introduction of Fisheries Amendment Bill
  10. Sealord CEO moves to new role
  11. Napier Fisheries Conference
  12. Panel airs shared fisheries views
  13. Glaister resigns as head of MFish
  14. Commercial fisheries valued at $3.8 billion
  15. Staying Maori while going global
  16. Court delivers judgement on Kahawai allowable catch
  17. Government approves industry-led proposal to protect seabed
  18. Ngai Tahu says eel size limits ineffectual
  19. More assets in iwi hands first half of financial year
  20. High seas limit on bottom trawl fishing
  21. Kirsty Woods takes leave of absence
  22. Changes to Charitable Trust laws
  23. Staff and Directors
  24. New Executive Assistant

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Staff and Directors


Ngahiwi Tomoana

Rikirangi Gage

New directors Rikirangi Gage and Ngahiwi Tomoana have made a big impact since being appointed to the board of Te Ohu Kaimoana in early February.

Both directors have been active in putting forward iwi points of view in relation to the Government's shared fisheries proposals. Both Riki and Ngahiwi bring a wealth of experience in dealing with the fisheries and marine environments.

Riki served as a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Oceans Policy, which looked at developing an overarching policy for dealing with the marine environment. He also represented the former Maori Fisheries Commission at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Argentina in 1996.

As well as working on issues related to the marine environment, Riki served as a board member for Te Papa for three years.

Ngahiwi Tomoana is familiar to everyone who was involved with the debate over allocation of the Maori Fisheries Settlement. He played an important role through the Treaty Tribes Coalition in the discussions over the development of the allocation method.

He says his appointment to the board is a continuum of the resource debates he has had at hapu and iwi level and also through Treaty Tribes. “The same arguments have been moved up to a national level, that's how I see it,” Ngahiwi says. “It's about the ability of turning those hapu fights into pan iwi fights and ensuring that our rights are protected at a national level. Te Ohu Kaimoana has traction with iwi and more traction with the Government, finance world, industry and therefore I see it as a natural continuum, but a very strategic one on behalf of the iwi structure.”

Ngahiwi, the chairman of Ngati Kahungunu, has promoted Maori aquaculture for the wider Maori community and his iwi, and for two years' running has organised the Maori Fisheries Conference in Napier.

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Tiakina ngā rawa hi ika, a tātou kaimoana mo ngā uri whakaheke
Protecting Māori fisheries assets for future generations