To me it feels like a fresh approach in a smart package that should appeal to all sorts of people prepared to help promote more fish in the water and a healthy marine environment. It’s a Kiwi solution to the perennial problem of sustainable funding to have a stronger voice in management decisions and allocation of marine space.
It
is run by an established organisation, NZ Sport Fishing which has been
recognised by SPARC as a national sporting organisation, and an idea like
LeaSea needs someone with a track record and clear accountabilities. For too long the burden of funding professional
help for rec organisations has fallen on the 59 fishing clubs.
http://www.legasea.co.nz/news.php
There
are plenty of projects that would make a difference
Example:
Work on the next Snapper One (East Northland, Hauraki Gulf, Bay of Plenty) stock
assessment model has started. All the
decisions on model inputs will be made by the Northern Inshore Working Group. As we found with Kahawai the model results go
a long way toward forming the management options available. Fishing Industry and ToKM have their own
scientists at the meetings to “advise” the Ministry of Fisheries. I have represented NZ Sportfishing Council at
these meetings for the last 12 years.
NIWA do a good job of the modelling and stay impartial but there is a
hell of a lot riding on a tweak of an estimate here and there. I’m encouraged by the approach made at the
start but some extra, paid help on the technical stuff would be a great
help. Tarakihi and Trevally are next for
stock assessments.
John
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who
points out how the strong man stumbles or
where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because
there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who,
at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at
the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory
nor defeat because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory
nor defeat.."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
now i can leave something for the next generation
 Southern_Jez wrote:I'll be ordering a t-shirt and hat when I get my credit card back in order ... quite like that design ... a NZ fishing related design without using snapper or kingfish, must be a first :) |
| John H wrote: The question of what the target biomass for snapper one is really important and will have to be made by stakeholders and MFish (not science working group). We will be working toward a target of 40% virgin biomass for snapper one. |
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