There is another commercial operation this end of Tauranga Harbour that drag nets for piper, grey mullet, and more recently they have been targetting eagle rays. The price that have heard quoted is $80.00 per ray, of what size I don't know. Nothing is sacred, if there is a dollar in it, it will be taken from the resource. In 2014, I saw them with 500kg of parore, each fish in the 1.8kg to 2.4kg size. Within the last six months they had a haul of what I was told was around 1000kg of parore. I would have thought that it would be better to keep the parore in the harbour to help with the sea lettuce problem.

 

Thanks for your interest guys.

 

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Dick, I fixed your heading typo, cheers

Mudfish marquand wrote: Ok , thanks Jason. It's a real bugger at the south end of the harbour where they are a by catch from trevally drag netting. The average flats fish here is between 65cm and 75cm and numbers of kings are going downhill. I know because I wade the flats fly fishing for kings nearly every day between the beginning of October until the end of May. Each year, my hours per king increases and I catch fewer as each season passes and I see fewer riding short tails. A lot more are being released by recreational anglers these days but their numbers are dropping. I would expect the flats fish to be constantly replenished from outside, but this doesn't seem to be making a difference. Thanks for your reply. Cheers

Didnt think there was any one commercially dragging netting the harbour any more. Im of the understanding the last person sold up or dragging was not prohibited

250mm snapper comm  reccs sna1 300mm why?? because its too bloody costly for comms to change cod ends