Thanks Bazza

Well last week was strange. 

Looks like snapper stocks in the BOP are in trouble, while they may have started to increase, it still may rock the boat later this year. 

A major re-write of the tarakihi report, but without a good handle on how abundance has changed and a better idea of where the older fish go, management on the east coast of the North and South Is has stalled. 

The number and size of trevally surface schools has been declining for many years.  The investigation of available data has finally been accepted but there will be no review of trevally stocks this year. 

However, the challenges that we may face later this year may surprise.

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 John H

Amatuer Fishing into the Quota Management System? by Lea Clough. If you have some idea of how the commercial fishers were shoe horned into quotas - don't miss it.

The LegaSea stand at thios weks Boat show is in the Hauraki Fishing Hall 1, stand 194 any day. 

Great team there to tell you what it is about.

Interesting to note that there is a documented decline in middle age kingfish in our coastal waters. This supports a very rough coconscious that I had come to this season - having caught literally hundreds of juvenile (70cm) kingfish over the last 12 months I have yet to catch a single legal fish during this time, despite more than 10 days of targeted (jigging and live baiting) fishing.

Perhaps some work is needed to find out where these bigger fish have gone?