Aquaculture

Submission to the Aquaculture Bill Select Committee

The Guardians of the Sounds, an environmental group made up of Marlborough Sounds property owners , recreational users and tourism operators, would like to make our feelings known to your select committee and would very much like the opportunity to address your committee in person. The Marlborough Sounds, and in particular the Queen Charlotte Sound,…

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Foreshore and Seabed Submission

Dear Minister My wife Takutai and I attended your road show in Blenheim. I raised an issue; you said I would be contacted so there would be further discussion. Your secretary took our contact details but as yet contact has not been made! Ownership of the seabed is an issue about perception. In 1850 Maori…

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Submission to Foreshore and Seabed Review panel

Kia Ora koutou, The Guardians of the Sounds would like to acknowledge Maori rights to the Foreshore and Seabed, those rights had never been extinguished through legislation, nor had it ever been purchased, the foreshore and seabed legislation was in our view a modern day act of confiscation. Guardians have fought long and hard to…

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Private Plan Change to create AMA Areas

Sounds property owners , Tourism operators, recreational users, Sounds property owners, tourism operators, recreational users, fishermen, divers, walkers all need to be aware of the Councils current intent to have a variation to change the Sounds plan to get rid of the current Tendering process. This will enable any company applying for an AMA area…

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