11 Sep 2013

Te Manu Korihi News for 11 September 2013

From Morning Report, 8:47 am on 11 September 2013

The Waikato-Tainui tribal body wants to tighten the rules on the commercial fishing of eels or tuna in the region; A member of the Maori Television Board who has quit suggests the channel should consider cutting its Te Reo content; A human rights lawyer is calling on iwi to be alert to proposed changes to the legislation covering the Exclusive Economic Zone - the area of sea from 12 to 200 nautical miles offshore; The president of the Maori Women's Welfare League says a focus of this year's national conference in Whakatane is wellbeing for women and their children.