Appendix 4: Questions Asked
Sample questions
The following questions were used to identify indicators that Māori would use to assess freshwater resources. The intention was to have an interactive 'conversation' free of jargon, rather than a structured interview. The list of indicators was drawn principally from Questions 1 and 2. Question 6 enabled us to revalidate the sites that had been chosen.
- If you drove up beside a beautiful healthy stream, what would it look like?
- How do you assess a site and decide whether to fish there or not?
- What has impacted on the health of streams and rivers?
- What has impacted on your mahinga kai?
- What traditional monitoring techniques have you heard of - specific to rivers?
- What are some of the sites that you use or used in the past in the Taieri / Kakanui catchments? What was harvested from these areas?
- What could iwi add to the management process?
- What are the barriers that stop us participating now?
