Thread: Submission regarding fish and game

I'm no fan of Fish & Game but see this for what it is, a power grab by the Chief Executive to move F&G NZ into the Conservation Dept.

The Chief Executive of Fish & Game is a career bureaucrat with strong links to Labour. He has a Masters in Political Science & Government with no apparent background in the wildlife sector https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-taylor-1b497268/

A letter, from a Fish & Game “staff collective” is understood to be signed by the vast majority of the organisation’s regional staff. They raise “serious concerns” about Taylor, the national council’s (NZC) chief executive since late 2017.
He’s accused of a “continual aggressive, adversarial, dictatorial style”. Staff wrote they’re becoming increasingly alarmed, alienated and distracted, and morale is actively declining.
“The actions and poor transparency of the NZC CEO are causing the development of a concerning level of mistrust, a toxic culture within the organisation,” the letter says, noting “an unhealthy and deteriorating relationship forming between NZC and staff”.

Taylor’s public statements, it seems, were causing conflicts for regional staffers. In the letter, it’s noted the “content of external communications” is “hampering the ability of staff to effectively do their jobs, causing a significant deterioration in relationships”.
Another Fish & Game staffer, who asked to remain anonymous, said the council went to great lengths to “intentionally overstate” the findings of that audit. “There is a very strong feeling that there has been a huge amount of politicking going on by Martin, Lindsay Lyons and a small group of their supporters to force the minister into this review.”

Such a review is seen by some as a “power grab” by Taylor.
The staffer writes: “F&G will wither and die as a centralised bureaucracy, and water quality will suffer as a result.”

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