Why is ecosystem protection top-down when fisheries conservation successes have been bottom-up? The question, posed by University of California Santa Barbara economist Gary Libecap to attendees at a Law and Economics Association event last week, stuck with me. Professor Libecap is something of a god in economics. In a prior life, I would tell my undergraduate students about the Pantheon of the Econ Gods. Libecap’s work in environmental economics easily put him in the [...]

Moana New Zealand and Te Ohu Kaimoana support today’s announcement by Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern and Minister for Fisheries Hon Stuart Nash, on the implementation of cameras on vessels in the known Maui dolphin habitat on the West Coast of the North Island. Māori are well versed in the responsibilities and duties required to fulfil their obligations as kaitiaki for the betterment of Tangaroa, and while the last recorded fatality of a [...]

Te Ohu Kai Moana Trustee Limited will hold a Special General Meeting (SGM) on Wednesday 3 July 2019, from 10:00am at the Novotel, Auckland International Airport. Agenda (subject to amendment) 10.00am Mihimihi/introduction 10.05am - Presentation from Te Ohu Kaimoana CE (Dion Tuuta) on Distribution of Moana NZ’s Annual Dividend to Mandated Iwi Organisations 10.30am - Questions and voting on any resolutions proposed 11:00am - General update from Te Ohu Kaimoana CE 11.30am - Questions on [...]

On behalf of the Te Ohu Kaimoana Board we are pleased to provide you with our First Quarter Report against the annual plan for the 2018/19 financial year. This quarter covers the period from 1 October to 31 December 2018. (Please click report below to view) Fisheries New Zealand’s proposal to strengthen the management of commercial fisheries On Monday 4 February, Fisheries New Zealand (FNZ) released their consultation document ‘Your fisheries - your say’ on proposals to improve Aotearoa’s [...]

Te Ohu Kaimoana is pleased to present the Annual Report for the financial year ending 30 September 2018. Physical reports are being mailed to Mandated Iwi Organisations and Asset Holding Companies today and will be arriving this week. Te Ohu Kaimoana Chief Executive Dion Tuuta will be available to meet with Iwi during February and March to discuss the contents of the report and any issues Mandated Iwi Organisations would like to raise. Please contact Charlie [...]

Te Ohu Kaimoana is proud to announce that this year's Māori Fisheries Conference will take place on Wednesday 27 March 2019, at the Novotel Hotel Auckland International Airport. Thanks to the backing and support of our sponsors, the Māori Fisheries Conference is launching into its eighth consecutive year and has become the pre-eminent hui in fisheries for Iwi and Māori fishing interests. The theme for the 2019 conference is ‘Te hā o Tangaroa kia [...]

On behalf of our Board of Directors, we are pleased to provide you with our Fourth Quarter Report against the annual plan for the 2017/18 financial year. This covers the period 1 Hōngongoi through to 30 Mahuru 2018. Some key highlights from the fourth quarter: This quarter saw Iwi and industry take proactive steps in the interests of sustainability for the hoki fishery with the voluntary shelving of 20,000 tonnes of ACE. Another key focus for us in the fourth quarter [...]

Whiti ora ki te tipua, whiti ora ki te tawhito, whiti ora ki te kahui ariki, whiti ora tawhiwhi atu ki nga atua haumi e hui e taiki e. E nga mana e nga reo e nga karangatanga maha tena koutou, E nga ahuatanga o te ra, nga taonga o te mate e mihi kau ana k ia koutou kua haere ki nga hawaiki, hawaiki nui, hawaiki roa, hawaki pamaomao haere, haere haere atu [...]

Te Ohu Kaimoana's Annual Plan and Budget for 2018/19 is now available and can be viewed or downloaded here. Te Ohu Kaimoana’s 2018/19 work programme is grouped to deliver outcomes in the key areas of: Governance and Management Services, Māori Fisheries Act Implementation, Fisheries Allocation, and Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture. During FY18/19 Te Ohu Kaimoana will give priority to advancing the remaining allocation process as far as possible by providing mediation and, where required, legal [...]

Te Ohu Kaimoana tautoko the decision by fishing industry quota owners to voluntarily reduce the amount of hoki they catch in the new fishing year, beginning 1 October 2018. The industry is proactively responding to observations from fishers that fewer hoki on Aotearoa’s West Coast have been observed (one of five fisheries areas for hoki). Hoki is Aotearoa’s largest fishery, and collectively Iwi, Moana New Zealand and Sealord own 40% of hoki quota. Hoki [...]