Thread: Inshore fishing under threat?

Originally Posted by MB

That would seem like a good solution to me to. In my locality, I would close Whangarei Harbour during snapper breeding season. The fish congregate en masse and are ridiculously easy to catch. They get slaughtered. Obviously, it's summer time and many people only fish at this time of year. Others don't have access to boats that can get them offshore, so it would be a deeply unpopular!

Agree, we are so bad at managing our resources when compared to say Aussie that have no catch during spawning and actually protect the breeding stock all year round with size limits on say snapper no take under 35cm and over 55cm or something similar as an example.