Alan L wrote: Tzer, you have a lot of foul ground for fishing in your area. I wonder if that makes a difference - eg preserving some fish stocks - snapper, cod, terakihi. Or do the comm guys fish those areas too? What do you think? Just wondering if some of the rec fish stock there is not under the same pressure as elsewhere. Regards Alan
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Sanchez wrote: brett your argument goes both ways in terms of unreported catch. but by a vastly different scope. Take a look. I think its fair to say that most are saying that comparing rec fishing to com fishing is nuts . Especially destructive, repetitive trawling that might result in one or two thirds of catch being dumped over the side, as opposed to being put on the BBQ. |
brett12 wrote:
The above is an exact example of how most recreational fishers and most of the same old posters in this thread, all have the head in the sand attitude. The TACC of snapper has been the same amount for nearly 20 years. 6.5k tons. https://figure.nz/chart/XuZ4uvsOpxD1Tz8E-x8VjAOPd1BSo2TBc In the same time frame, the NZ population has increased by 1 million, so the recreational fishers would have increased proportionately as well. As for the so-called recreational catch surveys, they are and have always been flawed. In my circles, it has always been agreed that at least 50% of the recreational catch is caught by 20% of recreational fishers. These are the more experienced fishers who are fishing very early in the morning or in the late evening and are home before any of the volunteer surveyors are out of bed and any aerial surveys. Do you think any of their catch is counted? No. So these surveys are only based on about 50% of the recreational catch. So, in essence, these so-called surveys have always been way underestimated. Just imagine the coastline of NZ and the amount of beach launching of these fishers. Do you think they are surveyed. I think not. I don't know the answer, but to blame solely the commercial fixed catch is just deluded. Who knows what the actual recreational catch is. |
Muppet wrote: Don't worry it was legal. |
v8-coupe wrote:
A rec gets caught picking the legal Snapper they want to keep and throwing the dead legal ones back, they can be hammered. Commercials can actively pick the size of legal fish they are targeting for a specific market |
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