What you say here is very much the case, I prefer to believe what I see each and everyday out fishing and not what is read on a piece of paper. As when having read some report stating the a species is in dire straights such as Tarakihi for example, yet when out here just about every spot hold good numbers of Tarakihi. If fishing was that bad then why do we so many great catches being posted to facebook and even here, before the invent of digital cameras your photos were film based but you had to then keep them to brag about your catches, these days you can just upload for the whole world to see. What you need to remember is that those touting the propganda line that our fisheries are stuffed are nothing more than self appointed experts who in my view let their own ideals/opinions as facts rather than tell the whole story. Remember the old saying "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" or lie depending on how you view that.