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improvements, such as the Ohau Channel gates. They control the water level of Lake Rotorua. What appears to happen now, and it has been proved, is once those gates are either fully closed or even partially closed that there’s a backup of water which does end up in our river. In terms of health-wise, that means not enough water being pushed through to clear the river, so sediments and such. ... There’s a second tributary to the Awahou River. That goes through farmland so what you’re getting up there is the runoff, whether it be from fertiliser being used on the farming land. We’re not 100 percent certain it still is, but there was a time when as a lot of farmers used to do, where they just pumped the milk shed waste directly into the river. ... as soon as you have a steady rain as we do today, then the river turns green and you can really see the full runoff from the farming further up central road. – Interviewee #14 ..................... like I said it's a big drain, so the first, and one of the excuses for not putting the river back when it didn't work was the, by that time the Rangiuru Freezing works had been built and they used to put their raw offal into that river. They've gradually cleaned up their act but it's still, they still have a consent to put some stuff in there. The other consent is held by Environment Bay of Plenty and that's a consent to divert, now Rotorua’s nitrogen and phosphorus, which is destroying the lakes. They've built that Ohau channel wall and that diverts Rotorua's paru down the Kaituna as well so the biggest, apart from the loss of the natural environment, the biggest thing is the nitrogen pollutants, storm water pollutants, Tauranga City Council, they just got a comprehensive storm water discharge to discharge into the Kaituna, their storm water for Papamoa and we fought that– Interviewee #15 ..................... the farmers take precedence because they (Environment BOP) are there to look after the river and drainage scheme mandated by government, so they(Environment BOP) look after them. ... the river and drainage scheme have precedence over <strong>tangata</strong> whenua so really it all comes down to a lack of political power. ...The estuary's name is Ongataro(?). ... so we took back the name recently. Ongataro is the name of the estuary so the Environment Bay of Plenty has finally listened to the people ...there's a huge plan around that how to restore the river, the remaining wetlands, all that sort of stuff, but that's all about trying to bring back, that's all about being kaitiaki because we've got nothing so we've got to restore it all we've got to put it back. – Interviewee #15 ..................... we’d go along and talk to the elders there and one of the biggest things they all said is that, yep, it wasn’t so much that we were going to take a piece of the land and make it a gazetted area, it was that we needed to look after it because they said, ‘Well, the shellfish and all that are declining so we need to close them.’ We couldn’t take the whole area that used to be there. We just needed to take a bit to start off and we hoped that everybody would follow in the years to come. Well, starting from then, I got them all to sign and they’re all and the things they said at that time, ‘Nah, close the bloody thing.’ – Interviewee #16 ..................... 39
Our long term objective was for us to always be able to go to the <strong>moana</strong> and get a feed, doesn’t matter where we were or who we were as long as they were able to go and get what they want. See, I had a Nana that ate pāuas about this big and she’d just go down and just get her kit and then go down and get them. Well one day there was this ornery fisheries person was there. And she still went to get them and he tried to stop her ... And she didn’t take any notice and in the end I told them to let her go. ... I said, ‘Their grandmother’s been doing this for the last 80 years. You ain’t going to stop her.’ – Interviewee #16 ..................... So that’s one of the reasons why we chose the mātaitai so we can actually make a difference in fishing in there. – Interviewee #16 ..................... but the thing is there’s more and more people eating our food. – Interviewee #16 ..................... With the development of housing and coastal plans and in particular, the roads that ... haven't been tarsealed for 32 years, it appeared to us that there was a breach by the councils themselves in the RMA Act and the impacts and causes that was affecting the fishery– Interviewee #17 ..................... we understood the mangroves and the sea grass as particular areas of breeding for small fish, scallops, pipi, rock oysters, kūtai and the like and we knew that the negative impact on these species also affected the fishery as a whole. What we do understand is that what affects the fishery in one area will affect it somewhere else so other areas like the Kawakawa River pollution was another effect that we were concerned about– Interviewee #17 ..................... we have a holistic view of the whenua and the <strong>moana</strong>. ... our values and our principles that we live by in a society structure that we have built up over the many generations is built around the sea and the land, so it's always been inbred in us to take care of the land and the sea, which includes the fishery because in doing so it will take care of us. So those values are inherent in the way we live and they still are. – Interviewee #17 ..................... the sea grass meadows are of vital importance because of the role it plays in harbouring eggs and allowing small fish to grow. We've undertaken our own studies on the sea grass meadows and I will make those available to you. We just finished a big study. – Interviewee #17 ..................... Interviewee #17 - we could see this slick on the water ... it was starting to come into the rocks and I went down and felt it and it was oil, pine oil, that had been given off from the pine trees. ... well it's an oil and it lapped itself up onto the rocks and then ... It gathers on the water and so as the tide moves in 40
Page 1 and 2: Mana moana
Page 3: Mauriora ki te whaiao, ki te ao mā
Page 6 and 7: This report was compiled by Rachel
Page 8 and 9: Iwi locations viii
Page 10: Helpers; Enablers .................
Page 13 and 14: You take pressure off wild stocks;
Page 15 and 16: Commercial Pressure What can be don
Page 17 and 18: Poaching & Other Pressures Who are
Page 19 and 20: Past Abundance & Present State What
Page 21 and 22: ..................... ...one of the
Page 23 and 24: people get a good taste of it now b
Page 25 and 26: estuary it was just abundance of fi
Page 27 and 28: (kakau?), so we went up the Kaituna
Page 29 and 30: he’s not a scientist but that was
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Page 33 and 34: Past & Current Impact of Land Uses
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Page 37 and 38: Interviewee #27 - [Land use] has da
Page 39 and 40: Aspirations for Abundance What is i
Page 41 and 42: ..................... the taiāpure
Page 44 and 45: Kaitiaki Action What are the kaitia
Page 46 and 47: Problem Recognition What have iwi i
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Page 52 and 53: and out this slick just goes, ... t
Page 54 and 55: Interviewer #1 - It’s a bit of a
Page 56 and 57: damaging the ecology with those wat
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Page 62 and 63: I forgot that the Rotorua Lakes Str
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Page 66 and 67: much as they can but in the non-Mā
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Page 70 and 71: Quotes: within the fisheries mechan
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Page 74 and 75: Interviewee #18- Yeah, yep, totally
Page 76 and 77: we’ve had meetings, hopefully the
Page 78 and 79: Just leave it alone.’ - Interview
Page 80 and 81: Cut quotas Quotes: The long-term go
Page 82 and 83: particular boat that goes out, that
Page 84 and 85: I think we all have to understand t
Page 86 and 87: Interviewee #14- So in other words,
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Page 90 and 91: those objectives. So I think you’
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Interviewee #4- The urgent need, li
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that we had rights under the Treaty
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Interviewer #1 - But they don’t n
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we shared what we had in common and
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Relationship Building: (networks) H
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managing those rel
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part, which is the major part. The
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could be as simple as if the River
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Leadership What qualities make a go
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family thing has been to adapt to t
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..................... ‘Sooner or
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Interviewee #19 - It is frustrating
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kaimoana. Things h
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locals and they’re not the Asians
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timeline that we did in the trainin
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Legal Mechanisms & Government Inter
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Barriers for Iwi/Hapū What are the
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..................... Because when
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If you put the same application for
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Interviewer #1 - Why are people afr
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Interviewee #7 - I mean, there are
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We were totally unprepared for the
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Interviewee #10 - And Te Puni Kōki
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Interviewee #10 - You should sue th
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have precedence over tangat
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..................... And I can und
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so we’re not talking and sharing
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Interviewee #19 - No, it was a volu
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Interviewee #20 - Yes, the answer i
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hapū does, the hapū the whanui wi
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not there. … we said, ‘Well we
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on for a long time at Maketu, peopl
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Helpers; Enablers Who/what has help
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Interviewee #3- We get on well with
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Interviewee #8- They have, yes, the
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MFish were great, MFish were great
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Interviewee #16- That’s what we w
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Interviewer #1 - He’s with Easter
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that many committees in Maketu for
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Legal Mechanisms Attempted to Use b
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Basically, we wanted to man
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group and so proceeded to hīkoi in
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that board was made up over there a
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actually. So we owe a lot to that o
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they wanted to sink the boat into o
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has to be some type of difference m
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Interviewee #4- Well, now we've got
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Interviewee#18 - I see that without
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into progress for our people and th
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Government holds the purse strings,
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It doesn't matter if you’re local
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... Interviewer #1 - You’d mentio
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We're still waiting for a response
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Interviewee#6 - Yeah and there was
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Interviewee #8- No, they didn't and
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Interviewer #1 - So you agreed to-
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it was actually a part of our overa
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and battered because they had just
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‘If they’re there next week, th
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Māori so that still lingers in the
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usually about them coming out, ‘O
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Interviewee #20 - It would appear s
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committee that was selected, I’m
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that is very important to us and we
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that it’s been a really dire situ
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Interviewee #29b - they told us, lo
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got so frustrating because the farm
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Spirituality Summary of Key Points:
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gap in your, you know, and you end
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we’ve been told the kaitiaki is a
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and some don’t or they don’t wa
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Interviewee #15b - That’s where o
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unless we’re able to develop our
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