v8-coupe wrote: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11976688 From the article: - "There is no legal protection for the recreational right to fish. The courts have clarified that a common law right to fish has been replaced by legislation governing all aspects of fishing. This means that recreational fishing is subject to the full discretion of the minister. In other words, the minister alone decides how much of a total allowable catch will be allocated to the recreational fishing sector and other sectors". |
Steps wrote: What Tagit says above... "There is no legal protection for the recreational right to fish. The courts have clarified that a common law right to fish has been replaced by legislation governing all aspects of fishing. This means that recreational fishing is subject to the full discretion of the minister. I believe that within the "legislation" there is requirement of the minister to protect the rights of rec fishing before allocating commercial rights... to protect the common law right... The issue is does the Minister/ ministry in deciding those numbers actually achieve that protection.. And there lays the problem/ issue |
Big -Dave wrote: From article: - "There is no legal protection for the recreational right to fish. The courts have clarified that a common law right to fish has been replaced by legislation governing all aspects of fishing". What about Maori rights? |
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