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

some other technical skills that our older people don't have are just not as fast as we are, we could help
them out and because their dreams are our dreams too in the thing was, was that they wanted to see
something before they passed away– Interviewee #4
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we had pots along the transect and we would do day and night dives on them to see if there's any
difference. Then we would actually, before the pot was pulled up, we would dive down to that pot to
see how much crayfish were on the outside of the pot and how much was inside ... – Interviewee #4
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but now we are also, we've got a stunted growth, like the native mussel, down in the front there and
there's so much of that they are competing for food so they are really small. – Interviewee #4
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That was another barrier, people would always blame something else and I started to think, well that's a
natural human thing isn't it? Instead of blaming ourselves, whereas a matter of fact, it was us and this is
all proved. All these rāhui and research that we found out, they've realised it's us and it's ourselves. It's
not, a lot of the things when we did (?) surveys, people, local people used to see these flash boats go
out, come back in, ‘Oh, there's 6 rods on there that means he's taken his quota, 20 fish per person,’ and
I was like, ‘Dear, oh dear, when are we going to understand that it's ourselves?’ That’s why we did (?)
survey, to write down, get the information down because people are still blaming the Pākehā. –
Interviewee #4
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here's a typical example, Pākehā goes out, flash boat, with the biscuit and everything, dive gear and
stuff, comes back, two kahawai, so happy, over the moon about these two kahawai, Māori go out, two
boats, two big bins full of kahawai, still not happy and then uses it for cray bait, you know, come on,
Pākehā just went out for a feed. – Interviewee #4
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...you've got people using the current permit system as a tool, and forever will be a tool, to get
undersized stuff, sort of mocking it a bit, ... So eliminate that, you'd have a particular boat that goes out,
that does all the harvesting for customary. ... eliminating a whole lot of illegal stuff and then you've got
to catch going to where it's supposed to go. That catch would also be monitored. It will be measured.
It will be recorded. – Interviewee #4
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The Coastal Hapū Collective is that fish is one of the many resource issues, resource <strong>mana</strong>gement issues
that face the coastal hapū. We’re also interested in education, justice, agriculture, anything economic
around the vitality of a hapū– Interviewee #5
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