mataitai reserve
/məˈtʌɪtʌɪ rɪˌzəːv
/noun NZ (also mataitai (plural same))
A marine area in which a particular Maori tribe has exclusive fishing rights: within mataitai reserves, guardians set the rules for recreational fishing...
- We have already seen, under the fisheries legislation, that getting the issue of mataitai reserves through has quite a long gestation period.
- Through its management plan, it may determine whether it wants a mataitai within a marine reserve - it is up to it.
- They are contained in the 1993 fisheries legislation and are known as the taiapure and the mataitai.
Origin
1990s: from Maori mataitai 'food from the sea' + reserve.
- non-playing
- non plevin
- non-plural
- nonplus
- nonplussed
- nonplusser
- non plus ultra
- non-point source
- non-poisonous
- non-polar
- non-political
- non-polluting
- non-popular
- non-popularity
- non-porous
- non-positive
- non-positive definite
- non possumus
- non-power
- non-practicing
- non-practising
- non-precedential
- non-pregnant
- non-prescription
- non-pressure