Thanks Paul. Fisheries NZ is consulting now on proposals to change the bag limit in CRA 2. Anyone can have their say. There is support from the main fishing and diving organisations for a bag limit of 3 for a limited time.
A regulation change is 7 months away, so the main fishing and diving organisations are supporting a voluntary reduction to 3 per person per day in the mean time.
We have been at the stakeholder meetings and had a good discussion about the introduction of Telson Clipping to idendify cray caught by recreational fishers. LegaSea does not support it because it will not impact the poachers mostly jest regular fishers who forget to clip. Fisheries NZ have supplied no evidence that it will be effective in CRA 2, where abundance is near an all time low.