Election 2023 - Water and Oceans Policy
Act
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.
Green Party
Spokesperson:
Eugenie Sage
Link to
policy here
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Eugenie Sage
- Establish a well-resourced and politically independent Ocean Commission to develop and establish Te Tiriti-based ocean governance of our entire marine area, including the Exclusive Economic Zone and to advise Government on legislative, policy and institutional reform.
- Establish an Ocean Ministry to implement integrated marine management.
- Reform fisheries and marine protection legislation and establish a national, comprehensive, and coherent system of no-take marine protected areas
- Resource maturanga Maori organisations and promote the use of marine cultural health indices to empower community action and well-being to inform policy, management and operations.
- Stop any further degradation of marine and estuarine habitats through the extraction of natural resources.
- Phase out bottom trawling.
- Enable kaititakitanga, including upholding and underpinning Maori fisheries rights in the transition of the QMS to an eco-system-based management.
- Pass a new Healthy Ocean Act in the next three years.
- Read more here and here
Labour
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.
National
Spokesperson:
Not yet available on their website.
New Zealand First
Spokesperson:
Winston Peters
Link to
policy here
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Winston Peters
- Undertake a review of recreational catch limits and how we can improve our coastal fisheries to ensure we have quality inter-generational fisheries in the future.
- Investigate the establishment of a separate Fisheries and Aquaculture Service to be located in regional New Zealand.
- Make $100m available to provide capital to Aquacorp as a way to de-risk ocean based marine farming.
- Deliver a fast-track statutory process for aquaculture consents with modest costs.
- Support initiatives to require all vessels fishing in New Zealand territorial and economic zone waters to be New Zealand flagged.
- Encourage maximum achievable crewing rates of fishing vessels through employing New Zealand citizens and permanent residents as a priority.
- Read more here
Te Pāti Māori
Spokesperson:
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
Link to
policy here
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Debbie Ngarewa-Packer
Rawiri Waititi
- Overturn the Crown’s position that “everyone owns water” and instead adopt a position that acknowledges Māori proprietary, customary, and decision-making rights and interests to freshwater.
- Acknowledge the intrinsic whakapapa of freshwater, and support hapū and iwi to negotiate for those whakapapa rights to be acknowledged in law.
- Restart negotiations between the Government and hapū and iwi to develop a policy framework on how Māori rights and interests are implemented in freshwater management and allocation.
- Substantially increase funding to the Te Mana o te Wai fund to support the efforts of whānau, hapū and iwi to protect and restore catchments and aquifers.
- Put a moratorium on new consents for water bottling plants, until a new allocation system has been developed.
- Develop a commercial user pays policy to help ensure fair allocation and support with tangata whenua-led catchment restoration.
- See more here