Labour will: Set clear, scientifically justifiable targets for rebuilding fisheries to sustainable levels and standards for managing the impacts of fishing on the environment; enable and facilitate fisheries resource users to meet those targets and standards; and develop cost-  effective monitoring and auditing systems to ensure they are met.Labour will: Review the Resource Management Act to promote integrated management and protect fisheries habitats and aquaculture areas from the impacts of land-based activities.Labour will: Expect all fishing sectors to share responsibility for improving the abundance of inshore fisheries.Labour will: Obtain accurate information on commercial fishing activity, making use of new technology while also considering and correcting the underlying incentives that drive misreporting and illegal discarding, and will work alongside industry to develop practical solutions to minimise discarding in multi-species fisheries.Labour will: Work alongside the recreational fishing sector to design and implement improved representation of their concerns and priorities at both the national and regional levels and with the aim of improving the fishing experience for all New Zealanders now and for generations to come.Labour will: Improve decision making, while retaining a diversity of solutions and outcomes to suit the range of issues that communities face.Labour will: Work with Maori fisheries stakeholders to ensure that the full range of Maori rights and interests in fisheries and the marine environment are able to be exercised in an integrated manner, consistent with the obligations in the Maori Fisheries Settlement.Labour will: Work with industry and other stakeholders to develop a national seafood branding and certification programme to add value to New Zealand’s seafood exports.Labour will: Facilitate the development of aquaculture within clear environmental standards.Labour will:

• Consider whether we should revert to a separate fisheries agency
• Address ways to improving our knowledge of the impact of fishing on fish stocks, while considering overseas experiences and the incentives which result
• Institute an independent review of the performance of both MPI and the Quota Management System
• Support the rehabilitation of the Kaikoura and environs paua habitat and work with all parties to ensure local and neighbouring resources are sustained
• Labour will implement digital reporting and monitoring systems that are cost effective, fit for purpose, and provide real fisheries management benefits – if necessary, we will defer the introduction of new systems until we are certain these objectives can be met.

There was a "talk" just  before 2014 election about reserving part of hauraki gulf for Auckland rec fisho, not sure how that get on but I'm looking forward for the new minister for MPI for change.

Nothing will change all the governments are the same..... useless

winny  fishers 

.Labour will: Work with industry and other stakeholders to develop a national seafood branding and certification programme to add value to New Zealand’s seafood exports.

same public servants running the show

  Yep That is the BIG issue... doesnt matter if local government.. ie Goff in Auckland  or a new incoming national government....
Rem the prog yrs ago "Yes Minister" ?


Every so often a PM or minister turns up with real balls and changes things.. Seddon, savage, king, Kirk, Moyle, Lange.
 Now  our self severing bureaucracy has protected its self in the late 80s and Clarke yrs

What needs to happen is being able to simply fire everyone at the top, and have them re apply.
Same as what happens to all those at the bottom in private industry to cut out the dead wood...
Trouble is the top guys .. the bureaucracy have so well protected themselves with employment contracts, penalties the hand shakes become unaffordable.

Good old Winnie doing what's best for... himself! No surprises there. Greedy old ****!

Clifftastic wrote: A guy I know took Winnie out for a fish a few years ago and wrote this article - http://www.nzherald.co.nz//nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11306150

All pollies are human away from the office,interesting article though

Tzer wrote: Before the elections all the nay sayers & advocacy groups were bagging MPI, commercial and Nationals Nathan Guy call for heads to roll, sacking of the minister etc. Yet now the results are known everybody's very quiet save for a few comments I have read across various social media pages questioning if Shane Jones will be next minister of MPI or at very least should they separate out fisheries into it own ministry again the new minister of fisheries. Will be very interesting to see which way the coalition roles but my guess is you wont see much change so how long before the bagging starts.

Nothing will change,read labours policy above,Shane Jones will look after his comms mates,the only time change would of/could of occured if NZF Richard Posser(list member) had got in,he pushed basically "legaseas" policies. So the short of it all F$%k all will change.

Yep...

I don't think any of the parties consider rec fishing to be a real issue for them so it is mainly just a case of throwing some words around pre-election to take rec fishing out of the decision equation for most people

One just has to look at the few posts comments here pre election...
And where a handful of votes ended up at the end of the day

Then we has issues like selling water off shore..  medicinal cannabis, lot big noise, indignation, public protests.. gets to the press, social media etc.
Inshore fisheries.. bottom line not enough care about it enough to go beyond the keyboard..so issues that .
 Althu a part of the  rivers streams environment .. well at the end of it   it just gets a passing mention.

Not in public face, therefore media, and if manages to become a political issue.. its at the bottom.
Yet  rec fishing is suppose to be one of , if not the top , recreational past times (???)
So is it really?  or just the fall subject to blame poor inshore fisheries on?

An old saying
" A country gets the government it deserves"
 Which loosely means if one doesn't continually stand up for those things it values... freedom, democracy, environment, water off shore, inshore fisheries... it WILL DISAPPEAR because its not a political hot cake

 And a political hot cake is not the number of ppl who care, its the number of ppl who care enough to stand up and make public waves in the streets
You can write all the letters/ emails, to MPs ministers , PM collectively 10s of 1000s... sign petitions etc etc , from 1000s even to MPs PMs, but unless public waves are made in the streets.. its doesn't make a difference.