Just shocking and unbelievable..!! They are crazy..!! 😈😈😈

That where i am working at the moment. At it all true, the chinese boats are plundering the the stocks. Last year we had a ball catching YFT from 10lb to 114lb from small 5 meter ply boats about 7 miles from land, sometimes only a hundred meters from the reef. This year i manage only 2 until today.
The current president is also half chinese and his term runout in January next year i think. So he got to fill that offshore bank accounts to the brim as his time is running out. Every local here want the boats to go but what can they do? NOTHING!!!!!! Corruption is so high here it's unbelievable. They just gave the fisheries officer a few $$$$$$, some whiskey and a young girl will sort him for a day or 2 on the boat and he sign off any paper or catch certificate infront of him. His wages is only $100+ a fortnight and few hunderd under the table will make him doing anything.
Hopefully a new government or president will stop it but you never knows. Money talks here!!!

And they(23 boats) turned up in droves. Tuna will not last long here.

A C wrote: Perhaps the governments concerned should halt all foreign aid to that region .......... see how that pans out in the long run when the tuna are all but wiped out. I'ts just corruption and greed, no surprises really.

from what i can see nz is the main aid provider followed by australia.

China would replace and likely quadruple any of NZs aid in an instant, and would pretty much own the whole place outright. Only way to prevent this would be for nz to match the size of the personal payments made to the officials there, as well as any new hospitals, roads etc etc etc that China have also given them.
The fix is in, china will keep on buying these tiny states, gunna keep happening as long as these states are so prone to corruption. Sorry, is it called Koha?

Capt Asparagus wrote: China would replace and likely quadruple any of NZs aid in an instant, and would pretty much own the whole place outright. Only way to prevent this would be for nz to match the size of the personal payments made to the officials there, as well as any new hospitals, roads etc etc etc that China have also given them. The fix is in, china will keep on buying these tiny states, gunna keep happening as long as these states are so prone to corruption. Sorry, is it called Koha?

That's about the hight of it all unfortunately ..... for the rest of us