Alan L wrote: I generally believed the fishery was in good hands (we are repeatedly told that - by Govt/Comms and Graeme Sinclair)- except I watch ours collapse over a few decades. Then I find out how they manage this stuff. It is scary. Why no attention to Puka?? Answer.... Because the research $s get directed to where the commercial return is best. (Mainly Hoki). Puka have been fished to the point of being economically insignificant - to the Comms and Govt export returns. So why would those guys want to spend $s confirming that fishery is stuffed. With the likely outcome of closure. So what happens.... zero input into determining what is happening. And meantime they preside over the decline. If Puka were a native bird species these people would be hung. This is criminal. Now I get what Legasea are really on about with the QMS being a captured/crap system. Alan
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