South. Fighting Bay, Rununder Point, Bushy Point and Lucky Point coastal areas are ideal for sheltering and recreational fishing. In times of old, Glasgow Bay was known to Te Ātiawa o Te Waka -a-Māui as little Island Bay. Glasgow Island is a waterhole for Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui and often our f isherman would shelter behind the Island and moor their boats whilst catching tīt ī. Port Underwood is an ideal sheltering bay, and the gathering of kaimoana would often take place here. The sandy bays were ideal for shellfish and the Wairau Lagoon was ideal for duck hunting. The Wairau River and mouth was ideal for whitebait and kahawhai. The White Bluff, a nursery ground, was also used by Te Ātiawa o Te Wa ka-a- Māui fishers for crayfish and mo oring, Kapara Te Hau for medicinal purposes, and further southward for the chasing of the whales and crayfish. Cook Strait (Te Moana o Raukawakawa) The bottom topography of the Strait is complex. To the north-west of the Cook Strait Canyon, in the Cook Strait Narrows, lies the Narrows Basin where depths of water between 150 and 200 fathoms predominate. Leading into the Narrows Basin from the north-west is the North West Trough, a rather shallow submarine “valley” lying across the northern end of the Marlborough Sounds. Its head lies near the centre line of Tasman Bay. Near shore on both coasts from the Narrows both to north and west, the bottom topography is most irregular, particularly around the coast of the South Island where the presence of offshore islands, submerged rocks, and the entrances to the Sounds, create violent eddy conditions. Cases in point are Koamaru Hole, 100 fathoms off the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound, and Jacksons Hole, 150 fathoms off Cape Jackson, which Te Ātiawa o Te Waka -a-Māui has been mindful and take great caution. For generations, Te Ātiawa o Te Waka -a-Māui have fished these waters with great care and many are still fishing these waters both customary and commercially. Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a- Māui as kaitiaki have great concerns for our fisherman and all who sail o n these waters as Tangaroa must always be respected. Te Ātiawa o Te Waka -a-Māui have many lookout points along Te Moana o Raukawakawa and severa l of these lookout points are still utilised today. Te Ātiawa o Te Waka -a-Māui have special kaimoana areas which are nurtured by iwi members. Today some whānau still utilise their own waka to move across Te Tau Ihu and to the North Island. This taonga symb olises for Te Ātiawa o Te Wa ka-a-Māui people the intense nature of their relationship to the environment and the mauri or life force that is contained in all parts of the natural environment and binds the spiritual and physical world. Te Moana o Raukawakawa incorporates the cultural value of Te Ātiawa o Te Waka -a- Māui mauri. Te Ātiaw a o Te Waka-a-Māui has mana, whakapapa associations and history associated with this taonga. Te Ātiawa o Te Wa kawa ka-a-Māui has tikanga and that involves tapu and noa, and responsibilities and obligations to this taonga and its cultural, spiritual, historical and traditional values. Maritime From Golden Bay or Arapaoa Island on a fine day, Te Ātiawa o Te Wa ka-a-Māui would often look towards Maunga Taranaki and see the maunga calling them home. The long Taranaki coastline is open to the Tasman Sea, and Golden Bay forms a shallow inlet off Cook Strait separated from the open sea in the north by Farewell Spit and sheltered in the south by the Pik ikiruna, Onekaka and Wakamarama Ranges. Te Ātiawa o Te Waka - a- Māui frequently travelled b ack and forward from Te Tau Ihu and Te Ika a Maui and were skilled mariners in these waters. While travelling north to Taranaki, Waikanae, or Wellington from Mōhua, Motueka, Whakatū o r Tōtaranui, our maritime fishers often caught cod, roughy and hoki. the At turn of the 19th or 20th century, Te Ātiaw a o Te Wa ka-a-Māui became commercial whalers. Te Tau Ihu Statutory Acknowledgements Page 144 of 163