bazza wrote: WOW ...... that kinda brings the unfortunate situation into perspective !!!! However when you think about it, should we be at all surprised that this happened in a country that bestowed an export award to a company that exported untold kiwi fruit plants to our now competitors overseas. If that was not bad enough ask any dairy farmer where thousands of yearlings are being exported to. |
Lethal wrote: just shows really how stupid/devious our Politicians really are, like what i have been told how they are being backhanded for selling out to people they can get backhanders from, the whole bloody thing should be be exposed for what it is, a sham for certain people in high places to make a killing of our fish resource for their own benefit.... nothing about running our fish stocks the way we would expect, all about money, thank you Tagit for putting this in prospective, the info i have been receiving about crocked people in high places has really hit home since we have started discussing the Fisheries as a whole, your input has made it all that much easier to understand, thank you, your a scholar and a gentleman for taking the time and effort to bring us all that much closer together... |
Tagit wrote:
Just to be fair to everyone, the worst of all this occurred under the 4th Labour government. Just that National doesn't seem to see fit to correct it either. Common denominator in both governments? A few rooms full of government bureaucrats who may not have changed that much, and may be far to close to the fishing industry? |
fish i wrote: National heavily embroiled in personal gains from commercial fishing policies |
Lethal wrote: [QUOTE=fish i]National heavily embroiled in personal gains from commercial fishing policies |
wayno wrote: What is going to happen when there are so few fish left in the ocean that the commercial fleet/quota owners are no longer seeing a return on their "investment"??? Will they seek compensation from the government to address their "losses"?? I believe we could be left in a situation in not too many years, unless something dramatic happens in the short term, that "we" the general public are forced to buy back quota from the commercial sector as it is no longer profitable for the big organisations to continue pillaging the oceans of New Zealand due to the fact that the government has allowed them to strip every last fish from the water. The recreational fishery will have long since collapsed due to trawlers having removed everything within 20 miles of the shore and 90% of associated local businesses will be bankrupt... Doesn't even bear thinking about really!! |
graham 99 wrote:
Just my opinion but 3 years after the present government tenancy I've been trying to work out what their way forward is. Just the other day John Key was in the news saying he wants to double agriculture by such and such a date, now in my view for him to do that he's going to have to go into fish farming in a large way and as every time someone tries to start a fish farm they run into people who want a lifestyle over more money and the fish farms get turned down. I feel fish farms have been on the political agenda for both major parties for a long time, what better way to get fish farming accepted than to strip the fishery. Graham |
cirrus wrote: Will they ever learn. Many parts of the world Farmed fish are regarded as a toxic product. People want wild fish. |
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