Director positions – Moana New Zealand

2020-04-21T20:38:34+00:00April 21st, 2020|

Director positions - Moana New Zealand 22 April 2020 Te Ohu Kaimoana (the Māori Fisheries Trust) is seeking interest from qualified and experienced candidates to fill vacancies on the Board of Moana New Zealand. The Organisation Moana New Zealand is the leading Māori seafood company in Aotearoa, owned by iwi organisations and Te Ohu Kaimoana.  It maximises the Māori fisheries assets owned by iwi and delivers growth in shareholder wealth through maintaining a strong [...]

Eastern Tarakihi Management Strategy and Rebuild Plan – First Quarter Report

2020-04-16T22:54:26+00:00April 16th, 2020|

Eastern Tarakihi Management Strategy and Rebuild Plan - First Quarter Report 17 April 2020                     Fisheries Inshore New Zealand, Te Ohu Kaimoana and Southern Inshore Fisheries welcome the release today of the first quarter (1 October 2019 – 31 December 2019) progress report of the implementation of our Eastern Tarakihi Management Strategy and Rebuild Plan. The report is available below. We have committed to the [...]

Sealord keeping hoiho fed during lockdown

2020-04-16T01:15:12+00:00April 16th, 2020|

Sealord keeping hoiho fed during lockdown 16 April 2020                 Sealord has donated 1 tonne of fish to feed hoiho (yellow eyed penguin) at Wildlife Hospital Trust during lockdown. The Trust's usual suppliers were unable to meet the needs of hoiho at the hospital, so they approached Fisheries New Zealand who then put a call out to the industry to see who could help. Doug Paulin, chief [...]

Targeted Government support for Māori communities and businesses

2020-04-15T21:38:39+00:00April 15th, 2020|

Targeted Government support for Māori communities and businesses 16 Paengawhāwhā 2020                   Following the Government’s initial funding stimulus package, an additional package focussed on providing support to Māori as part of the Covid-19 response was announced.  This includes: Reprioritising $10 million to support community outreach. This includes steps taken by Te Puni Kōkiri including: a refocus of TPK Regional Hubs to support whānau, hapū and iwi; partnering with [...]

Update to Iwi from Moana New Zealand

2020-04-09T07:12:09+00:00April 9th, 2020|

Update to Iwi from Moana New Zealand 9 April 2020 In such unprecedented challenging times, there is no “playbook” or “go-to” manual that we have in our back pockets to pull out, so for all of us this current journey we are on is very much one of experiencing and learning as we go. Fortunately, at Moana we have a very experienced and highly capable group of leaders in both our Executive and senior [...]

Update to Iwi from Sealord Group Ltd

2020-04-14T01:47:48+00:00April 9th, 2020|

Update to Iwi from Sealord Group Ltd 9 April 2020 Tēnā koutou katoa e ngā Rangatira Two weeks into COVID-19 Alert Level 4 and we’re really pleased with how all our staff, at work and at home, have adapted to this new way of operating as an essential business. Our staff in our factories and on our vessels are all doing a fantastic job in their roles on the frontline. We’ve worked hard to [...]

Policy advice – working with the Crown to fulfil Treaty obligations

2020-04-14T03:41:33+00:00April 8th, 2020|

Providing policy advice on issues affecting Māori fishing rights is one of the ways that Te Ohu Kaimoana works to protect and advance Māori interests in fisheries. Over January and February 2020, the policy team provided responses on nine different policy matters to four different government departments and two specialist groups (the Environment Select Committee and the Resource Management review panel). The advice we provided ranged from comments on new global biodiversity targets, to [...]

Black Petrel Survives South American Capture Ordeal

2020-04-08T05:20:17+00:00April 8th, 2020|

Black Petrel Survives South American Capture Ordeal 8 April 2020 Media release from Southern Seabird Solutions Trust One of the Hauraki Gulf’s iconic black petrels caught by a boat in Ecuador in 2007, has been found alive with its partner at a breeding burrow on Great Barrier Island.  Seabird scientist Biz Bell was astonished to find the bird alive. “Despite the crew caring for the bird on their boat for four days we had [...]

Rāhui – Te Koau Ki Whangaokena

2020-04-06T05:34:39+00:00April 6th, 2020|

Rāhui - Te Koau Ki Whangaokena 6 April 2020 East Cape hapū have placed a rāhui on fishing and diving. Campbell Dewes, Secretary Rohe 1 Takutai Moana Trust says the information coming through the road checks show that whānau are travelling unnecessarily. He says if you can walk to the moana kapata kai then you're in your bubble that's fine, but driving there isn't.

South Taranaki Iwi Celebrating Court Of Appeal Decision To Stop Seabed Mining

2020-04-06T07:29:22+00:00April 5th, 2020|

South Taranaki Iwi Celebrating Court Of Appeal Decision To Stop Seabed Mining 6 April 2020 Media release from Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui and Te Kaahui o Rauru Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui and Te Kaahui o Rauru are celebrating the decision of the Court of Appeal, announced today, to stop Trans-Tasman Resources plans for risky seabed mining off the South Taranaki Bight. The Court of Appeal found that there were multiple overlapping errors of [...]

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