Minister for Oceans and Fisheries
| Minister of Fisheries | |
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| Ministry of Fisheries | |
| Style | The Honourable |
| Member of | |
| Reports to | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| Appointer | Governor-General of New Zealand |
| Term length | At Her Majesty's pleasure |
| Formation | 8 March 1977 |
| First holder | Jim Bolger |
| Salary | $288,900[1] |
| Website | www.beehive.govt.nz |
The Minister of Fisheries in New Zealand is a current cabinet member appointed by the Prime Minister to be responsible for New Zealand's aquaculture and fishing industries and to oversee the Ministry of Fisheries. Similar duties were performed previously by the Minister of Marine.
The present Minister is Stuart Nash, a member of the Labour Party.[2]
List of ministers
The following ministers held the office of Minister of Fisheries.[3]
- Key
| No. | Name | Portrait | Term of Office | Prime Minister | |||
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| style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 1 | Jim Bolger | 
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8 March 1977 | 13 December 1978 | width=1 rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | Muldoon |
| style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 2 | Duncan MacIntyre | .jpg)
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13 December 1978 | 26 July 1984 | ||
| height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 3 | Colin Moyle | 
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26 July 1984 | 9 February 1990 | style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color;"| | Lange |
| height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color;"| | Palmer | |||||
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 4 | Ken Shirley | 
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9 February 1990 | 2 November 1990 | height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | |
| style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | Moore | ||||||
| style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 5 | Doug Kidd | .jpg)
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2 November 1990 | 16 December 1996 | rowspan="2" style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | Bolger |
| height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 6 | John Luxton | .jpg)
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16 December 1996 | 10 December 1999 | ||
| height=15 style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | Shipley | |||||
| style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 7 | Pete Hodgson | 
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10 December 1999 | 26 February 2004 | rowspan=3 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | Clark |
| style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 8 | David Benson-Pope | 
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26 February 2004 | 19 October 2005 | ||
| style="background:Template:Jim Anderton's Progressive Party/meta/color"| | 9 | Jim Anderton | .jpg)
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19 October 2005 | 19 November 2008 | ||
| style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 10 | Phil Heatley | .jpg)
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19 November 2008 | 14 December 2011 | style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | Key |
| 2011-2017: No separate appointments | |||||||
| style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 11 | Stuart Nash | 
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26 October 2017 | 6 November 2020 | rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | Ardern |
| style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 12 | David Parker |
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6 November 2020 | present | ||
See also
Notes
- ^ "Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2016" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 94–98.
References
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
