Sorry if this is in the wrong place, wasn't sure if it was news, fisheries management, or other.  But this is something that everyone needs to read, only a very short article.

So how many times has the Minister or someone from MPI looked the camera in the eye and knowingly lied to our faces in saying that fish dumping was not widespread and not an issue for the management of stocks??

Thanks Kevin I read the article - what concerns me is the spin once again put out after email published, by MPI themselves that it is not that bad and now we monitor so it wont continue to happen (and they are probably having a go at authors of email as we speak to shut them up).

Tagit wrote: So how many times has the Minister or someone from MPI looked the camera in the eye and knowingly lied to our faces in saying that fish dumping was not widespread and not an issue for the management of stocks?? The fear now is that the camera monitoring system is exactly what people are thinking it is and will be held up as 'proof' of good fishing practices for the next 10 years until we dig another email out of MPI under the OIA that tells us how it is really just a publicity stunt to hide the illegal practices being used and how much damage they are doing. By then it may be too late.

And if one other poster is correct and they are now incorporating mincers, any evidence of wastage and mortality will be evacuated beneath the boat. No more "visual" evidence. Viola, An efficient new boat with little to no wastage.
Will there be a camera pointed directly at the mouth of the mincer?
I guess only time will tell.
Remember, MPI has been charged by Government with doubling primary exports by the year 2025. If I remember correctly.
You can have the most efficient boat in the world. However, you can not catch fish if they are not there.
The question then becomes, "how do we get extra from the existing biomass"?
We all know the answer.

From what I read they are factory type vessels and will only discharge when net not in use.pumps out underwater to stop birds getting caught.but who knows if there will be a monitor or not

Just this weekend I spoke to my neighbour at Kawhia about this wastage, he was a crewman on the trawler Fair Dinkim, long gone from Kawhia, his estimate was around 50% went back over the side, wrong size, wrong species, too many and so on.

He fished with Alan Langdon (owner) for approx 5 years, mid eightys to early ninetys, he is now 80 years old.

It was interesting listening to the radio interview part with the senior guy from MPI. His response to lots of questioning about the truth around dumping was effectively that it was irrelevant because they were going to have cameras now. Note that he didn't deny that dumping was a huge issue, just tried to say that it was irrelevant. That means that every time someone from MPI or the government has previously commented about how dumping was so minor that it wasn't an issue, they were presenting us with deliberate lies. Normally getting caught in a deliberate public lie is a sacking offense for a minister or senior government official, but in this case Mr Key hasn't even entered the discussion. What that suggests is that they are so used to lying about the management of our fisheries that they have forgotten that they are meant to be telling the truth. The even sadder thing is that we are so used to being lied to about our fisheries by the government that no one has raised a serious public voice to get the minister sacked on the back of being exposed by this report.

don't get too sentimental there tagit,"Mr" Key is a shameless liar,frequently caught out.

Once 6 new psh mini super trawlers are operating you can kiss your fish goodbye.l mean your 7 fish.The mincers will hide the evidence of anything they don't want.They will be fishing the areas the Danish scieners are currently.

The entire fisheries is a shambles.

Many changes are going to be pushed for in your fisheries.

Treaty of Waitangi settlement for Ngatiwai.Ngatimanuhiri is in Snap1

This will be earmarked Iwi controls Snap1

This is now being set up under Seachange..Whanu are active in this role already..check your appointed people.

This is going on behind closed doors

The current Snap1 management plan is part of it ...Any person or group of people who have had input into this plan know

The management plan is a smokescreen for what is really in store for us all.

Get rid of the Quota system
Likewise Mpi out of our fisheries
Stop using our fish as an excuse as sustainable..it's not

Management of our fisheries is not for money.
Nor should it be controlled by the people who are involved in this new mangement plan

Don't shoot the messenger!!