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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Recovery of government costs discussed

While the cost of fishing against quota continues to rise with increasing fuel and other costs, the cost of fishing for Iwi with fisheries assets also includes paying the government levies for certain activities.

Levies are paid to the Government to recover costs where it provides fisheries services needed to manage fisheries. In 2006/07, the Government “recovered” approximately $34 million from the fishing industry in Ministry levies, conservation levies and fee-forservice transactions. Since the mid 1990s, cost recovery has stayed in a band of $30 million to $35 million each year.

The policy and rules by which the Government can continue to cost-recover services is being reviewed. Te Ohu Kaimoana's general manager of policy and operations, Laws Lawson, and Aotearoa Fisheries' general manager of strategy and planning, Tom McClurg, are part of a Working Group with the Ministry of Fisheries reviewing the basis for cost-recovery.

Te Ohu Kaimoana and AFL, along with members of the Seafood Industry Council, are continuing to discuss these issues with the Ministry in the hope of ensuring that iwi pay fewer levies in the future and thereby achieve a better return on their fisheries assets.

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