Thread: Scallops top of the south season looking grim

Sounds to me that the marlbrough Rec spokesman Peter Waston is trying to just look after his own patch and crying like a right tosser. Moaning about nelson people coming into 'theír 'so called patch and catching "their"snapper. Everyone has the right to fish where ever they want, people from afar have always travelled to fish the sounds and surrounding areas but the fishery is fine here for snapper for people not to worry about going to the sounds to catch snapper. Hes trying to blame nelson people and some other factors for the state of the fishery in the sounds and its quite good for the marlbrough Recs isnt it that he suggests that its a 5 snapper bag for the whole top of the south.
Hes not concerned about limting the catch for the fishery but more so that the sounds gets a increase to 5 from 3 and using the great catch rates here to have some sort of bs arguement.
Just recently there was a report out that was stating that the increase in snapper in the bay but not a great increase at all in the sounds was down to two factors.
1 decrease in the commercal catch from past years.
2 Increase in water temp here in the Bay and not the same increase in water temp in the sounds.
Snapper prefer the warmer waters here in nelson hence better numbers than the sounds....