The overall goal of this report is to create a foundation for New Zealand to become a world leading indigenous blue economy. This will be done through the identification and dissemination of strategies that support the economic development of Māori organisations that rely on marine ecosystems and the environmental maintenance of these spaces. This project's specific aims are to: (1) identify policy and regulatory tools that foster marine ecosystem and economic management and also reflect Māori knowledge systems, values frameworks and operating principles; (2) develop kaitiaki business models that embed Māori commercial activity within sustainable ecosystem processes; (3) integrate kaitiaki business models with frameworks for the development of sustainability tracing and authentication systems that will capture premiums for Māori marine products.