Tagit wrote: I love the way that every time a marine reserve is mentioned out comes the old argument thatthe millions of recreational divers that don't want to gather seafood and that NZ doesn't have are going to suddenly flock to these new reserves and add $millions to the local economy. We will soon have to make scuba diving a compulsory school subject so we can keep up with the demand for enough divers to go and spend their money in all the new reserves that were justified on that basis. No one ever considers the drop off in recreational fishing and charter businesses etc as that is always assumed to just carry on no matter how much of the prime fishing area is locked up. Life doesn't work like that! Make something harder, more expensive, less safe. less attractive and less people do it. Marine reserves have their place but don't want to read BS justifications. Either argue them on their true merits or don't argue them. |
Marligator wrote: Here is a very interesting opinion piece by Mike Hosking on so called on-line surveys etc. It is what is used for the basis of a lot of planning these days and is very flawed. This is the type of thing that would be used by Twig & Tweet to show how many people would use Marine Reserves etc. I have to also say that LegaSea and NZSFC have also been known to use these types of surveys, petitions as well to push their views. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12075688 |
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