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The seas, oceans, sounds, estuaries, and other significant water bodies, including their surface interface and connection, with the air and with the land offshore of the mean high-water mark. The marine condition bolsters a differing scope of ocean life that is significant for worldwide biodiversity. A sound marine condition bolsters our social and social prosperity, and the sea's assets add to our economy.

The marine and beach front condition additionally assumes a noteworthy job in the Māori economy and lifestyle. A wellspring of food and different assets since Māori first settled in New Zealand, the moana (sea) is likewise profoundly and socially significant. Māori folklore and cosmology highlight the ocean god Tangaroa, child of the Earth Mother Papatūānuku and the Sky Father Ranginui.

Customarily, the ocean gave transport and an approach to exchange with different clans. Kaimoana (fish) was served to show neighbourliness at hui (gatherings), tangi (burial services), and different social affairs. The marine condition stays critical to Māori, from both standard and business viewpoints.