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Fisheries 2030

Section 13 - Blind-sided

An unprecedented alliance of non-commercial environmental and fishing interest groups have responded collectively to the Fisheries 2030 proposals.

Read about this process and why you are not being offered the chance to have a say before serious changes are made..........

The MFish process to amend section 13 of the Fisheries Act. This is where we lost the right to have fisheries managed above sustainable levels.

We now have a system focussed on small, fast growing fish - suits commercials but not many people who fish for food.....

Latest Update

option4 Update #127

Compensation - what are the principles?

Well-meaning initiatives to achieve 'more fish in the water' are being stifled by the uncertainty about whether compensation is payable if the Minister of Fisheries reduces TACCs to enable higher public allowances.....

Recent news

option4 Update #126

Black Magic lures and a chance to win a boat package

Latest news and updates on compensation issues, possible changes to your fishing rights and views on more marine farms - a danger to navigation, access and the environment......

Hokianga Accord news

Accord Update #28

Support for Deep Water Cove rahui

Tangata whenua in the southern Bay of Islands have applied for a temporary, two-year closure to fishing in Maunganui Bay, otherwise known as Deep Water Cove. The Hokianga Accord supports the objective to achieve "more fish in the water/kia maha atu nga ika ki roto i te wai".

Bay of Islands news

Deep Water Cove temporary closure

Submissions in support

Both the Hokianga Accord and Bay of Islands Swordfish Club have submitted in support of the proposed temporary closure to fishing for two years in Maunganui Bay (Deep Water Cove), in the Bay of Islands. Read the submissions and reasons why here.........

Kahawai Legal Challenge News

A dwindling bunch of bottom feeders

Ever since the first overseas trawlers steamed over the horizon more than 40 years ago fisheries management has been contentious.

Public concern about how we go about rebuilding and enhancing our fisheries has increased...........

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Marine Protection

Joint aspirations for abundant fisheries

option4, the Hokianga Accord and the Wellington Recreational Marine Fishers' Association submit on the MFish draft Fisheries Plan for the North Island West Coast. A rebuild of important inshore fisheries is required to reduce the environmental risk to those fisheries and their inter-dependent species.

Foreign Charter Vessels

A series of correspondence between the Minister of Fisheries and the Northland and North Island West Coast fisheries forums about having full observer coverage on all foreign charter vessels fishing in New Zealand waters.

The Hokianga Accord is the mid-north iwi fisheries forum which includes Ngapuhi, Ngati Whatua, commercial, customary and amateur fishing interests.

The Accord holds regular hui around Northland. The thirteenth hui was held in June 2009.

Individuals and groups with an interest in the marine environment are welcome to participate in the forum’s hui.

Objective:

“More fish in the water/Kia maha atu nga ika ki roto i te wai.”


Aquaculture - more marine farms?


 option4 Principles
A priority right over commercial fishers for free access to a reasonable daily bag-limit to be written into legislation.
The ability to exclude commercial methods that deplete recreationally important areas
The ability to devise plans to ensure future generations enjoy the same or better quality of rights while preventing fish conserved for recreational use being given to the commercial sector.
No licensing of recreational fishers.
 
A balanced approach to marine protection
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