Whiringa-a-nuku 2007
Issue 12b

  1. Why AFL?
  2. The Gift of the Whale: Inupiat hunting
  3. Balance needed in sharing fishing interest
  4. Only 11 iwi organisations left to mandate
  5. Shane Jones hangs up fisheries boots
  6. New Chair for AFL, Sealord
  7. Directors chosen for Te Ohu board
  8. East Coast Iwi celebrates AFL deal
  9. AFL lobster facility opens in Napier
  10. New Sealord CEO demonstrates passion for fishing
  11. Maori fisheries helps build new crab fishery
  12. Scholars embark on Japanese study trip
  13. Aquaculture analyst heads to Japan
  14. Directors for Trusts appointed
  15. North Island eel fishery cut
  16. Maori TV to show fishing documentary
  17. Forestry man for Maori fishing company
  18. Recovery of government costs discussed
  19. Fisheries Amendment Bill delayed further
  20. New role for AFL accountant
  21. New receptionist for Te Ohu Kaimoana
  22. Financial manager moves to US firm

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Shane Jones hangs up fisheries boots

Labour MP Shane Jones, who has just returned from a successful European tour as part of the Parliamentary Rugby Team, may have hung up his rugby boots - but he has hung up his fisheries boots too.

Board member Shane Jones, seen here speaking in Parliament, will stand down from Te Ohu Kaimoana.

Shane was appointed to the board of the former Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission in 1993 by the then Prime Minister Jim Bolger and, along with current chairman Archie Taiaroa, was the only member to have remained on the board for so long.

In 2000, the newly elected Labour Government restructured the Commission board and Shane was elected chairman.

The board then set about completing the allocation model for fisheries with renewed vigour and over the next few years consulted with iwi. While on the board of the Commission, he helped ensure that litigation did not hold up allocation of the fisheries assets and which allowed for the distribution of the assets to iwi.

In May 2003, Shane, as chairman, passed the proposed allocation model to the then Minister of Fisheries, Pete Hodgson, with the support of 93 percent of iwi organisations.

During his time on the board as Chairman, Shane oversaw the deal between the Fisheries Commission and Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd in Japan, to buy the 50 percent share of Sealord previously owned by Brierley Investments Ltd and which ensured Sealord could increase its global reach in the international fishing industry.

He was also instrumental in ensuring iwi received 20 percent of all new marine space created for the New Zealand aquaculture industry through the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Settlement.

Te Ohu Kaimoana chief executive Peter Douglas said Shane's style and leadership on the board will be missed. “During the development of the allocation model, Shane had to lead everyone into making what was a difficult decision where compromise was needed on everyone's part. But most iwi leaders have moved on from their anxieties over allocation to a position now where the important factor is getting on with the job of getting the best returns on the fisheries assets they got.”

“The allocation of Maori fisheries has been an extremely important period in the history of Maori economic development and Treaty settlements and, as chairman and a board member of the Fisheries Commission, Shane has made an enormous contribution,” he said.

Shane Jones steps down from the board of Te Ohu Kaimoana at the end of September 2007.

 

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