yea they volunteered to limit their take a few years back didnt they.
well done to them

Kia Ora mates,

Whilst that is a great result, it has one horribly common starting point. The action began when the fishery was on the point of collapse. Our commercial fleet will promote sustainability actions, but only it seems when they see their livelihoods disappearing if no action is taken. Pretty much all our deep water species have been through the same collapse first and then try to rebuild process. Why do we always have to wait for the fishery to be at the point of no return before we get sensible action, and why is the first action always to cut the recreational limits?

Absolutely agree there Tagit, you really do have to wonder just why it has to collapse so badly before sanity takes hold. I would suspect that it is largely as cray quota is largely in private hands, whereas quota held in the big corporate control is regarded as a much more blood thirsty, results at all costs maximum yield proposition, the idea of accepting reductions impacting profit margins etc is just simply not an option to the desk jockeys and accountants. Oh, and of course, the lawyers.
So maybe some success stories like the southern cray thing will open some eyes.
6% of original snapper biomass in the BoP.....you'd almost think they'd start to notice that too, huh?