FizFisho wrote: Also it provides jobs. We would be screwed without the comms. |
Rozboon wrote:
How do you figure? It's about 3% of our export economy, and directly or indirectly employs about 13000 people, or maybe 0.3% of the population. It's pretty important to those 13000 people, but if commercial fishing ceased to exist in New Zealand tomorrow, all it would mean is I had to make my own berley and catch more of my own bait. Although presumably that would be trivial, due to the massive abundance of fish that would be present within a few years... hell I would just lure fish in the interim. Honestly I suspect that a decent slice of the jobs/economic production would be taken up by the increase in fishing tourism, from visitors coming to "the country that banned commercial fishing". I'm all for it. The return we get on the relative ruination of our fisheries is ****. |
Muppet wrote: Trevally @ $38 a kg raised my eyebrow |
the croc wrote: Legasea fully endorses the methodology. I am fascinated to hear from the Legasea supporters as to why they disagree with Legasea on this? To quote Legasea: "Truth is New Zealand has a world-leading way of estimating recreational catch." |
Alan L wrote: My general synopsis of our local fishery over 30 yrs would be; Puka - decimated Gurnard - a fraction of what they used to be Snapper - fraction of what they used to be Kahawhai - prob a bit hit and miss on this - but they seemed to be very short supply 5-10 yrs ago and possibly picking up now Terakihi - prob stable, but patchy - some areas that used to be good don't yield anything now - and a fair bit of this is I think rec pressure - because they are localised. Spiny Dogs - used to be minor, now plague proportions. Sometimes better to pack up and go home. How come the trawlers don't clean them out? Croc? The fishing did improve last summer compared to the last 5-10 yrs - we even caught some snapper. I can't help wondering the HB Seafoods boats impounded had an effect. They trawled our area constantly - 3 days up/down a white trawler. Finally gone, next morning a red trawler doing same. Repeat. To maybe 0.5 km off the beach and out to 7km (puka). Alan |
the croc wrote: To quote Legasea: "Truth is New Zealand has a world-leading way of estimating recreational catch." |
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