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This legislation regulates Māori customary fishing in the North Island and Chatham Islands. Regulations effective from 1 February 1999. Under the 1992 Deed of Settlement the Crown agreed, among other things, to introduce legislation empowering the making of regulations recognising and providing for customary food gathering and the special relationship between the tangata whenua and […]
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Mātaitai reserves are developed and managed by tangata whenua under the customary fisheries legislation and Fisheries Act 1996. Mātaitai reserves recognise and provide for the special relationship between mana whenua and traditional fishing grounds, and non-commercial customary fishing. Mātaitai allow recreational fishing, but commercial fishing is not permitted unless special provision is made by the […]
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