Long before Te Tiriti o Waitangi guaranteed iwi and hapū tino rangatiratanga over our lands, forests, and fisheries, long before European settlement and the subsequent colonisation of those lands, and long before Captain Cook claimed to have found us when we were in fact not lost, whānau and hapū have exercised their fishing practices, and our ancestors practised local forms of stock translocation for pāua, for toheroa, for tio, and other shellfish. 