AOTEAROA FISHERIES LIMITED

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Whaia te pae tawhiti kia tata Whaia te
pae tata kia mau!
AOTEAROA FISHERIES LIMITED
Shared Fisheries Workshop
Friday 9 February 2007 WELLINGTON
Robin Hapi, Chief Executive OfficerFriday 9
February 2007
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Presentation Outline

• Overview
• Expropriation
• Managing Recreational Catch
• Nature Extent of Maori Settlement
• Classic Case of Clawback
• Who best to make Trade Offs?
• Finding Solutions

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Introduction

• Quota Management System (QMS) introduced by
  Government in 1986
• Maori Commercial Fisheries Settlement 1992
• Shared Fisheries discussion document released
  by MFish in November 2006

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Expropriation

• The act of taking title to property owned by a
  private party without that partys consent under
  the authority of a law or statute

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Managing Recreational Catch

• Focus of the Shared Fisheries document
• Largely a recreational problem
• Obligations of the recreational sector
• Exemptions as a result of the document

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What does this proposal mean?
Settlement Assets
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Whos share is being shared?
TO
Off these two
Settlement Assets
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Nature Extent of Settlement

• Settlement being undermined by document
• Re-allocation of customary and commercial
  allowances will affect Maori
• Creation of a wedge between commercial and
  customary Maori rights
• Trade-offs between Maori commercial and
  non-commercial components
• Any re-allocation in one of those two sectors
  will affect the other

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Impact to our Iwi shareholders if
allocation reoccurs
AFL Quota Portfolio (all key shared fisheries)
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Classic Case of Clawback

• Taking rights back from people that were
  legitimately secured

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Who best to make Trade Offs?

• They Say
• Fisheries resources should be shared out by
  government on the basis of best value
• We Say
• Maori should determine how our fisheries taonga
  /assets are used

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Solutions

• Complete the rights-based framework
• Ensure Customary rights are explicit and
  quantifiable
• Consolidate the management of commercial and
  non-commercial components of the Settlement
• Implement an Advocacy Lobbying Strategy
• Develop and incorporate commercial perspectives
  within our approach

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What you can do

• Develop your own submission and provide to MFish
  by 28 February 2007
• Support the submissions of AFL / Te Ohu based on
  the approach outlined today
• Meet with your people to alert them and encourage
  them to make a submission and / or support the
  submissions of AFL / Te Ohu
• Say NO to expropriation say YES to willing buyer
  willing seller transparent reallocation mechanisms

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Shared Fisheries Concept ..
YEAH RIGHT!!!
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Whaia te pae tawhiti kia tata Whaia te
pae tata kia mau!
AOTEAROA FISHERIES LIMITED
Shared Fisheries Workshop
Friday 9 February 2007 WELLINGTON
Robin Hapi, Chief Executive Officer