Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 20, 2016 16:31:54 GMT 12
GOVT TAKEN TO COURT OVER KERMADEC SANCTUARY
The Government is being taken to court by the Maori Fisheries Trust over plans to create a vast ocean sanctuary around the Kermadecs.
Around 620,000 square kilometres in the north eastern corner of New Zealand's exclusive economic zone is flagged to become the reserve -- but there's a catch: the area is part of a Treaty settlement which gives Maori fishing rights.
The trust, also called Te Ohu Kaimoana, says the proposed marine sanctuary extinguishes all iwi customary commercial and non-commercial fishing rights in the area, secured under a pan-iwi, pan-Maori agreement with the Government in 1992.
Part of the deal guarantees Maori would be involved in Crown decisions regarding the management of fisheries and ecosystems, but Te Ohu Kaimoana alleges this hasn't happened with the sanctuary proposal…..
www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/govt-taken-to-court-over-kermadec-sanctuary-2016032009
A further link re Kermadec fiasco here > www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/03/maori-party-makes-national-its-bitch-over-kermadecs/
The Government is being taken to court by the Maori Fisheries Trust over plans to create a vast ocean sanctuary around the Kermadecs.
Around 620,000 square kilometres in the north eastern corner of New Zealand's exclusive economic zone is flagged to become the reserve -- but there's a catch: the area is part of a Treaty settlement which gives Maori fishing rights.
The trust, also called Te Ohu Kaimoana, says the proposed marine sanctuary extinguishes all iwi customary commercial and non-commercial fishing rights in the area, secured under a pan-iwi, pan-Maori agreement with the Government in 1992.
Part of the deal guarantees Maori would be involved in Crown decisions regarding the management of fisheries and ecosystems, but Te Ohu Kaimoana alleges this hasn't happened with the sanctuary proposal…..
www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/govt-taken-to-court-over-kermadec-sanctuary-2016032009
A further link re Kermadec fiasco here > www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/03/maori-party-makes-national-its-bitch-over-kermadecs/