The GreenplanetFM Podcast with Tim Lynch

Do you go out fishing here in NZ and are you going to have further reductions of what fish you can catch? Because, the recreational fisher person is being totally ignored by the Ministry of Primary Industries and leaves the question: Is the government, along with commercial fishing interests with 94% of the catch, now taking aim at the 6% of the yield that the public harvest? The lines are being drawn with our elected representatives in Parliament siding with Corporate Fishing to make it even more difficult for NZ families to catch their own fish. Honest broker Doug Kidd, ex National Party Minister of Fisheries, saw this coming as far back as 1990 and endeavoured to empower the recreational sector by passing the Fisheries Act of 1996. The scheme of the Fisheries Act of 1996 is that “fish come first”. By improving the biomass and hence the health and abundance of our coastal fisheries first, the Minister will then be able to fully allow for the non-commercial interests of the people of New Zealand to fish for