New website focuses on Māori Commercial Aquaculture Settlement 15 Haratua 2020               Takutai Trust, the Māori Commercial Aquaculture Settlement Trust, has launched a new website. The Trust acts as the eyes, ears and mouthpiece for the collective interests of Iwi Aquaculture Organisations in relation to the aquaculture settlement. This includes facilitating aquaculture settlements between Iwi and the Crown to developing Māori interests in aquaculture. The new website covers [...]

Will Treaty relations post-Covid be more of the same? Nā Dion Tuuta 15 Haratua 2020             Koi Tū – the Centre for Informed Futures, led by Sir Peter Gluckman, recently released a paper titled Social Cohesion Enhancing Kotahitanga in a Post-Covid World. The report suggests that as we transition towards post-Covid life, it’s critical that New Zealand considers what factors influence the nature and degree of social cohesion – [...]

Moana New Zealand helping Palmerston North residents in need 5 May 2020 Story courtesy of Seafood NZ               Iwi-owned fishing company Moana New Zealand is helping the Palmerston North community by creating thousands of ready-to-eat meals for those in need. Moana, in collaboration with Palmerston North Civil Defence emergency operations centre and the Salvation Army, have been working to deliver more than 8000 meals to the city's vulnerable. Moana [...]

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 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 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 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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]