Mana moana, mana tangata Testimonies on depletion and ...

our <strong>mana</strong>akitanga, how well we can feed each other, but even those relationships to the whenua, ... you
could go down as a group and collect watercress kōrero and the next minute the stories come out, ... so
the kōrero comes, ... so we’re not getting out there so much so we’re not talking and sharing the stories
so much – Interviewee #18
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Interviewee #19 – that’s the thing, ... is creating stuff, creating inland, give the <strong>moana</strong> a rest, you know,
I’m interested to see how this bloody mussel farm goes ... In Napier, you know I’ve never seen mussels
growing out in the sea on bloody strings and stuff. You know I’ve seen them growing in sheltered areas
down in Nelson and stuff and you know, where they’re protected, but to grow out in the ocean I think
they should have tried it first.
Interviewer #1 – So is that successful, you think that there’s a potential here for Maketu for a similar
venture?
Interviewee #19 – I think, yeah I think there would be because that green-lipped mussel is taking over
this Maketu mussel, you know, it just breeds so profusely, other than, well it gets taken, but you know,
the old Maketu mussel is getting a bit scarcer because the green-lipped are moving in and taking over
because it’s a faster-growing mussel, but yeah, it could be but then again, we mightn’t have the room.
We mightn’t have the room here
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as early as last Christmas when we were at home we were struggling to catch a snapper and then we got
a report that they were all floating just outside the bay there. Someone had scooped them all up and
then dumped them because it was cheaper to dump them than bring them back in. So another solution
for that, for the fish dumping, that was given by <strong>tangata</strong> kaitiaki was the pātaka system. I mean a lot of
these things, these themes they keep recurring throughout all the different iwi groups so a pātaka
system, I think, it has been trialled in a couple of different areas, but that would be something along the
lines of rather than dumping fish, maybe store them or give them to the local <strong>tangata</strong> whenua and they
could use it as part of their customary allowance – Interviewee #10b
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We had specific beds. So we had this bed, you don’t touch it, that’s for tangis. That one there, that’s for
21st, happy occasions. – Interviewee #10b
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