August 23, 2018
There is a small area at the north end of Bream Bay that prohibits purse seine nets. This area runs from Busby Head at the Whangarei Harbour entrance to about half way between Marsden Point and the Ruakaka River mouth. Trawl and Danish seine nets are excluded from a much larger area in the inner ... Read more.
August 23, 2014
The Crayfish 3 policy is a document developed by the Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club and the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council in 2014. It is aimed at increasing the size and abundance of crayfish in the eastern region. The policy applies on the North Island’s southeast coast, from the area south of East Cape ... Read more.
May 22, 2020
The Rescue Fish policy and background material were sent to the Prime Minister and Ministers for Maori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti, Finance, Environment and Fisheries on 24 April 2020. A discussion with the Minister of Fisheries Stuart Nash was due in early May. Presentations were made earlier in 2020 to the Labour Party Maori Caucus; ... Read more.
May 22, 2020
The time is right, politically and socially, to present the Rescue Fish policy. The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the vulnerability of many families and communities unable to access adequate food. Food security must be a priority. Reforming fisheries so there is more fish in the water and available makes sense. There is political appetite for ... Read more.
May 22, 2020
LegaSea and the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council are proposing reforms to make fisheries more abundant because there is public support for change. The public is increasingly concerned at the loss of abundance in coastal waters, the environmental effects of poor land management and the ongoing seabed damage from bottom trawling and dredging.
May 22, 2020
Yes. 70% think reform is needed. What’s more, research shows that 67% of people want the Government to do work to reform fisheries to make sure they become abundant and so commercial fishers pay a resource rental, while just 2% oppose. Horizon Research Fisheries Policy survey May 2019.
May 22, 2020
Yes, there is strong grassroots mana whenua support for reform to ensure there is an abundant fishery. Over the last 15 years we have attended and participated in many hui where people have expressed their concerns about depletion and their desire for more fish in the sea. Research shows that 73% of Māori think reform ... Read more.
May 22, 2020
The pathway to abundance has been laid out in the Rescue Fish policy document. The bottom line is that the Quota Management System needs to be dismantled. The Government needs to buy back existing quotas in the inshore fisheries. Catch levels need to be reset to enable fish stocks to recover to healthy levels. Bottom ... Read more.
May 22, 2020
The environment: Banning inshore trawling and dredging and transitioning to more eco-friendly fishing methods will result in a cleaner marine environment. There will be more fish in the water, fish will be healthier, and fish will be easier and cheaper to catch. Food security: The bulk of fish exports earns less than $3kg, while retailing ... Read more.
May 22, 2020
It is convenient for the Government to believe that the Quota Management System is the best way of managing fisheries. Also, because the quota owners have formed a powerful lobby that stridently protects its monopoly market position. This lobby has its own scientists and experts who maintain that the QMS cannot be dismantled because the ... Read more.
