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Aquaculture - The First Major Failure in Planning?

Senior Solicitor, Ministry for the Environment

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Publisher: New Zealand Ministry for the Environment

Creation date: September 2002

Aquaculture is presenting a huge challenge for both planners and law-makers. Aquaculture is an activity that has a range of effects on the environment, including effects on natural character, landscape and amenity values, public access, ecological values, tangata whenua values, navigation, tourism, and extractive fisheries. It is difficult to fully predict the speed of the growth of the aquaculture industry. Technologies have developed that allow aquaculture to take place in large areas never contemplated before.

Coming from the Ministry for the Environment, it is difficult for me to assert that there has been a "failure" in planning for aquaculture, let alone a "major failure". But the very fact that the Parliament has imposed a moratorium on aquaculture, which affects existing applications, indicates that something has gone wrong.

I will use the Tasman case to illustrate factors that arguably lead to a major failure in planning for aquaculture. The Government plans to reform the legislation governing aquaculture shortly. Matthew Everett from the Ministry for the Environment will talk more about the proposed reforms.

Key Words: New Zealand • Aquaculture Moratorium • Aquaculture Policy Reform • Policy and Regulation