Tagit wrote: I read a bunch of the Seachange stuff through. The goals are great, and even the process isn't that bad, but like so many politically driven things in this country the end result looked more like a power struggle leaning towards a power grab. A lot of stuff we wouldn't like as rec anglers was probably due to the compromises needed to get any agreement at all amongst the competing parties but it looked like another situation where by far the largest stakeholders (rec angling) came last behind the minority commercial and specifically in this case Maori interests. Read the document and there is a massive handover of control to what is predominantly Maori interests. It all reads fine if everyone plays straight and nice, but things never stay that way so I find it scary myself. From what I understand rec angling was badly under-represented (in numbers not the quality of people involved) and this is just another continuation of the government/councils willingness to sacrifice rec angling to achieve their own agendas better. Why do we have to accept that the interests of the vast majority should be deliberately undermined to better serve the much smaller interest groups? How about we have a public vote instead of the gov/council stacking the odds in the working groups to suit some political agenda. For me, Seachange is more of a threat than an answer unless there is a whole lot of changes. |
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