Thread: Submission regarding fish and game

Iv had quite a lot to do with F&G Southland branch particularly around resource consents , one of the consents took a couple of years & some presentations to finally get it over the line & it’s a completely eco friendly project, most of the trouble hinged around how much my project would piss the fisherman off , so F&G where doing there job , I’m a keen fisherman so didn’t expect things to be to easy , in the end a compromise was made , from my dealings iv seen that most of the council members are fairly practical type guys sure there’s a fishing guide or 2 amongst them at one point I felt it was borderline conflict of interest however if I wasn’t involved in a project and was merely looking at how the council members were serving licence holders I thought they are doing a pretty good job , historically farming practices haven’t been good , there must be kilometres of nova flow or tiles draining into the many waterways throughout the country Not to mention all the irrigation and bloody baleage wrap hanging off willow branches so it not hard to see why F&G took the stance they did when it’s directly impacting fish & game bird habitat , iv spent my entire working life on farms so understand the important role they play for rural NZ The Last thing we need is for F&G to be affiliated in some way with Doc that would be a complete disaster.

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

Iv had quite a lot to do with F&G Southland branch particularly around resource consents , one of the consents took a couple of years & some presentations to finally get it over the line & it’s a completely eco friendly project, most of the trouble hinged around how much my project would piss the fisherman off , so F&G where doing there job , I’m a keen fisherman so didn’t expect things to be to easy , in the end a compromise was made , from my dealings iv seen that most of the council members are fairly practical type guys sure there’s a fishing guide or 2 amongst them at one point I felt it was borderline conflict of interest however if I wasn’t involved in a project and was merely looking at how the council members were serving licence holders I thought they are doing a pretty good job , historically farming practices haven’t been good , there must be kilometres of nova flow or tiles draining into the many waterways throughout the country Not to mention all the irrigation and bloody baleage wrap hanging off willow branches so it not hard to see why F&G took the stance they did when it’s directly impacting fish & game bird habitat , iv spent my entire working life on farms so understand the important role they play for rural NZ The Last thing we need is for F&G to be affiliated in some way with Doc that would be a complete disaster.

hallelujah
conservaTION AND increasing gamebird fish stocks invariably helps other waterfowl and species.
doc want to go back to pre european or even pre maori times.
preservation not conservation.