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Massive threat to trout fishing Massive threat to trout fishing It has been a long time since freshwater angling in New Zealand has faced a threat from Government as large as the one it does at the moment. No party has come out against the proposed amendments. We ran a poll to all politicians and not one single politician was against the Bill. National supported the Bill through its first reading, Labour and Greens no comment. NZ First non-existent. We cannot remember any Government threat that has been delivered with the aggressive arrogance that Eugenie Sage and the Greens have used in trying to amend the Conservation Act, under the guise of The Indige-
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Letters to the editor
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Who is driving Predator Free NZ
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nous Freshwater Fish Amendment Bill. The NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers Inc. has long advocated that our native freshwater fish deserve more environmental protection and are willing to go a long way to accommodate that. But it seems that the junior partner in the government coalition is only going to be happy if it destroys freshwater recreational angling completely. You would think, seeing as they have specific responsibilities under the Conservation Act, that Fish & Game NZ would have been party to any changes to it or at the very least, consulted. But no, this bunch of arrogant government bureaucrats and politicians didn’t even bother to tell Fish and Game NZ, let alone involve them. Perhaps that’s because the consequences of this pernicious piece of legislation ever becoming law would include: • directly threatening Fish and Game NZ’s ability to manage sports fisheries; • enabling DOC to remove sports fish from waterways; • enabling iwi and Treaty partners to own, possess and sell trout; • enabling the commercial farming of trout. Effectively this will give DoC the ability to declare trout a non-indigenous pest fish. If you are a freshwater angler that lives in NZ, or visits NZ to fish (or even wishes to); if you run a business that services or supplies anglers, then we urge you to support Fish and Game NZ in fighting this proposed legislation. Please visit https://fishandgame.org.nz/threat-to-trout/ to see how you can help. We can’t stress enough just how great a threat this is, and how important and urgent it is for you to lend your voice to this struggle.
Time is short (Govt has seen to that) and the future of recreational sports fishing in New Zealand is at stake. It is believed that DoC have been put under huge threat over recent years due to their incompetence in the management of Taupo Fishing waters and that public cries to have Fish and Game take over and manage the fishery has concerned them enough to take these drastic measures. With plummeting licence sales because of the poor quality trout DoC and Maori are looking to other means to combat the lack of revenue. They are not there to make money, as they are government owned. The tax payer already pays them and far too much. They are there to protect while working with the likes of Fish and Game along with other agencies to find solutions to better the New Zealand environment. It’s about making things better for everyone including the many overseas visitors to enjoy. When you step back and consider the huge revenue that recreational freshwater fishing brings to this country it becomes clearer that DoC want their share of this. Our children get so much enjoyment by going to well managed ‘trout fish out’ days run in numerous Fish and Game managed ponds around New Zealand. From here our future anglers get to enjoy the experience of catching their first trout. DoC is completely out of control and it seems that neither of the coalition partners is able to control them. Sage and her Green Party colleagues are a disgrace to New Zealand’s freshwater systems and she should resign. To embrace change to the environment is to include ways to help it thrive, not fill it full of nitrates and destroy it.
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Tourism is by far our biggest economic earner and our freshwater system needs to support that. Read the summary that shows what is behind this proposed Bill and why the Greens and Sage are hell bent on destroying our freshwater angling.
Change is coming to commercial fishing But don’t hold your breath ……
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The Minister of Fishery Stuart Nash recently addressed the seafood industry annual conference. The Minister started great when he indicated he wanted to make sure he acted on opportunities to reduce the environmental impact on fisheries. While that sounds really good, there was no indication on what part of the industry he was talking about. Was it the thousands of miles of ocean floor habitat destroyed by bottom trawling or was it the depletion of a fish or sea mammal stock, like Hoki, Bluenose, Dolphin, or Tarakihi and the many others stocks
that have all been seriously depleted. Or maybe it was the fact that his hands are completely tied because of the influence NZ First has at cabinet level. NZ First will not allow Nash to undertake anything worthwhile for the fishery. When Nash took on the position he said that he stopped the camera rollout because the cameras weren’t fit for purpose. Under Guy if the cameras were implemented the receivers would not have received all the fish; cameras would not have been legal; they didn’t cover land based fishers; boats under 8 m were exempt i.e. – flounder fishers; they weren’t reliable enough – the footage was crap; and they didn’t work under deck lights plus there wasn’t going to be any real time footage. The fly in the ointment for Nash is NZ First. As we all know they have done back room deals with the industry and have Nash by the ‘old fella’. He can do very little. What Nash needs is an answer to sort out the deemed value and the fish receivers. This is the only way to sort out the inshore fishery where it’s a mixed species fishery, Story continued page 3...