Recognise the significant existing and potential contribution of aquaculture to the social, economic and cultural well-being of people and communities by:

1. including in regional policy statements and regional coastal plans provision for aquaculture activities in appropriate places in the coastal environment, recognising that relevant considerations may include:
1. the need for high water quality for aquaculture activities; and
2. the need for land-based facilities associated with marine farming;
2. taking account of the environmental (ecological, cultural, social and economic)
   benefits of aquaculture, including any available assessments of national and
   regional benefits;
   
   
3. ensuring that development in the coastal environment does not make water quality unfit for aquaculture activities in areas approved for that purpose; and
   
   
4. providing for aquaculture activities within aquaculture settlement areas gazetted
   under section 12 of the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004.