Fishery Policies and their Impact on the New Zealand Maori

The introduction of innovative fishery policies in New Zealand has recently attracted international attention. The introduction of an ITQ system was premised on the notion of Crown ownership of fishery resources. Conflict has accompanied these policies as Maori people have challenged the government over ownership of fishery resources and declaimed the skewed impact of the fishery policies. This paper examines the source of these problems focussing particularly on the Treaty of Waitangi negotiated in 1840 between the Crown and heads of Maori tribes. The Treaty guaranteed to Maori the full, exclusive and undisturbed possession of their fisheries and other properties, guarantees which were until recently ignored. The Crown has subsequently ceded some authority over and ownership of fishery resources to Maori.New Zealand fisheries policies, Treaty of Waitangi, resource ownership, distributional impact, Maori unemployment rate, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

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