Thread: Guided Hunting

Not knowing what "AATH" was I googled it and got to the DOC website. Aerially Assisted Trophy Hunting.
The map of allowed areas seems to include pretty much all of the Sth Is except Fiordland ?! wtf ? Surely this should be more restricted.
To get a permit there's an application fee of ~$1800 & then some very nominal concession costs for flight landings and daily charges. So once a guide has got thru the initial application cost fee & bureaucracy its pretty much a free lunch.

If the punter is an overseas tourists I'd like to think there was a decent fee ($4 -500/day?) with the privilege of accessing our public land.

Originally Posted by chainsaw

Not knowing what "AATH" was I googled it and got to the DOC website. Aerially Assisted Trophy Hunting.
The map of allowed areas seems to include pretty much all of the Sth Is except Fiordland ?! wtf ? Surely this should be more restricted.
To get a permit there's an application fee of ~$1800 & then some very nominal concession costs for flight landings and daily charges. So once a guide has got thru the initial application cost fee & bureaucracy its pretty much a free lunch.

If the punter is an overseas tourists I'd like to think there was a decent fee ($4 -500/day?) with the privilege of accessing our public land.

It should be restricted to private land and exclusion zones imo.
Or at the very least, not allowed during the ballot period.



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