We’ve been swamped by pragmatic Kiwis alarmed by Shane Jones’s fisheries reform proposals. Sure, reforms can be positive – just not this one. It’s a scam – literally defined as a “fraudulent or deceptive act or operation.”

If the proposed changes go ahead, they’ll strip away public consultation from important future fisheries decisions, limit camera visibility on boats (or let fishers turn them off altogether), and hand our coastal fisheries over to private commercial interests.