Adam Scott wrote: Hi Craig, after reading about the decline in Tauranga harbour kings, this is slightly off topic but what is your view of the BOI Yellowtail Tourny setup. 218 kingfish weighed over 4 days out of a fairly small area with bugger all released. Plus if we factor in all the fish that would have busted off (6kg line)or were sharked we are looking at easily +300 Kingfish killed in the 4 days in a smallish area. Many fish only 6-12kgs. You would have more idea than me and I might be out of line, I know it is a tournament with history, but if its to have a future wouldn't at least a 12kg min weight or something be beneficial, or can the area handle this ok with no impact.
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As soon as I saw the numbers caught in this year’s Comp I was concerned. 218 was just way too many. The other thing that is surprising is that the BOI Club for this comp does not follow the NZSFC minimum length of 1m and instead follows the recreational limit of 75cm. if they just followed the 1m limit then the number weighed would have been significantly reduced. Looking at the weighed fish there were 38 fish <10kg of which I would say the vast majority was <1m (has to be very skinny to be >1m), there were another 58 fish between 10-12kg of which I would say 60% would have been <1m. In addition some of the 12-13 kg fish probably would have been <1m if they were fat, but I will ignore that, so conservatively on this rationale if they had used the 1m rule then the number weighed would have reduced to about 145. Still a lot of fish, but much more acceptable. Also the top three boats on a points basis weighed in 50 fish between them with one boat weighing in 20, another 18 and the third 12, this is over 4 days. I am sure none of these fish went to waste but that is a hell of a lot of kingfish.
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