OIA193
15 October 2024
Dan Moskovitz
[FYI request #28418 email]
Dear Dan,
Thank you for your email of 17 September 2024, requesting information relating to the
interactions between kina and exotic Caulerpa. Your request has been considered under the
Official Information Act 1982 (OIA).
You requested the following:
•
I request the document 'Information on interactions between kina and exotic
Caulerpa.'
Please find this document attached as Appendix One.
•
If you have received additional advice or information on exotic Caulerpa since
receipt of this document, I request that too.
My Office has received the following additional advice. Please find the following documents
attached as Appendix Two:
• Estimates material on Biosecurity
• Request for Establishment Funding and Urgent Control Works for Exotic
Caulerpa at Aotea Dated 25 May 2024
• Caulerpa in the Bay of Islands The cost of inaction Dated 12 June 2024
Some information has been deemed out of scope.
I understand you have already been provided with a copy of
AM24-0519 - Update on the
exotic Caulerpa Response, by the Ministry for Primary Industries in their response to you in
OIA24-0474.
You are advised of your right to raise any concerns with the Office of the Ombudsman. You
can contact the Ombudsman at
[email address]. Yours sincerely
Hon Shane Jones
Minister for Oceans and Fisheries