Thousands of fisheries offences revealed
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Over the past year, fisheries officers recorded over 4,000 offences when inspecting recreational and commercial fishing boats.
NZ Herald Investigative Reporter | Michael Morrah
Video | Corey Fleming
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MSM NZ Herald joirnalism at its finest: asking trivial questions, showing recreational fishers getting busted for a couple of undersized snapper while commercial fleet is allowed scorched earth practices in Hauraki gulf like bottom trawling, purse seining and scallop dredging. Is this issue too hard for you to investigate NZ Herald?
You must be a knobson privileged pledger if you think NZ Herald is good journalism 😅😂😂😂
And exporting most of it to China at export prices and making seafood unaffordable for ordinary New Zealanders here at home.
Nothing new from msm hacks😂
Could you imagine if they actually had the spine to reply.
Amazed this comment was allowed
The numbers dont ad up commercial had 800 odd offences from 2200 searches, thats a 40odd percent fsil, 4 times recreational. Poor reporting
No your just dumb boy.
Living in Australia we get NZ snapper at the shops and i can tell you now they are WAY under 30cm
If you see that again, please take some snaps on your phone, and pop an email with details through to MPI
Commercial limit is 25 .
What you gonna do@@edwardtupper6374
If all 5 million people in New Zealand cast a line and caught their daily limit, it still wouldn’t deplete the surrounding oceans. There should be no draconian laws around fishing with a rod, except perhaps during spawning season and in inland waters. Yet, these laws seem more concerned with cracking down on a few people bringing home a feed for their families rather than the tax revenue from commercial fisheries. The real focus should be on limiting commercial fishing, especially when it comes to overexploitation and ripping off the public with outrageous prices - It's all about the fish aye! Not the taxes the commercial fisheries are paying!
He's there on behalf of the fish
This is bull recreational shouldn't be penalized taking 3 or 4 fish commercial kills loads more juvenile fish than us normal fishermen tryna get a feed for dinner
@ exactly
You really are stupid recreational fisherman are just as bad especially with there kontikis and set nets they catch friggin hundreds and take it all I see it all the time.
@@sdsd5711No way look at how many recreational fisherman are taking way over there limits with kontikis and set nets. You must be blind I see it all the time when I'm fishing.
Seen undersize snapper that look 25cm sold in nz supermarkets crazy
Commercial fishing has different size limits to the average fisherman bullshit I reckon
commercial limit snapper is 25cm
I think you are lying, I don’t think you give a damn about the fishing resources, previous offender caught nine times and yet he continues on. I see the chinese women catch little 10cm snapper from the wharfs where I sometimes fish, hundreds of them and nothing ever happens. No wonder then that people like me always only catch undersize snapper that I can’t take home. Whats the point of following the rules when you the custodians don’t enforce the law? You bark as loud as a dog behind a gate, but have no bite. Grow a spine, arrest these bastards, take all their bloody gear away.
"angrily had it in his hand".... What a great description of the threatening nature of knife use.
That maori narrative gotta stop
After 9 offencives, how does he still have a boat? The law needs to get tougher on offenders. It's no wonder people don't give a toss
I saw a case a few years ago where a Maori chap had a huge amount of seafood in his possession on muliple occasions, and he had claimed customary fishing rights. However that claim was dismissed out of hand, and he was found guilty, so the Crown seized all his gear, his boat, and the vehicle used to tow the boat. So why not this guy? Nine offences and clearly the message has not been received so you would expect this time he gets absolutely clobbered, right?
@edwardtupper6374
I'll explain the difference:
One was on an industrial scale done for profit, the other dude probably caught 9 slightly undersized fish.
They export all the small ones to Australia.
So they fine all the weekend fishermen.
The perfect job for a retired enforcer.
You're the second person commenting about undersized fish for sale in Australia. I am assuming you are specifically referring to undersized snapper sourced from NZ waters?
Proof of that is really vital but what you do with the infomation is even more so: obviously it would be pointless putting it in the hands of the guilty parties themselves, so defo not a government agency.
And tallies do what ? 200 ton dumped in land fill
What a waste of money.
Bring back that cool TV prm coastwatch that was the best you guys doing great job thanks Craig matarangi comandel
Im guilty of catching undersized fish my problem is a few times I had tried to release the fish but killed it in the process so instead of wasting it I just take it home, I've tried bigger hooks to avoid catching the smaller fish but yeah, what would you do, throw the died fish back or take it home for a feed?
Eat it brother😂
Circle hooks
You have to throw it back by law
5.0 or bigger circle hooks will stop you catching lots of undersize size fish .
Circle hooks also usually hookup in the corner of the mouth so more likely to be successfully released .
By law if it’s dead and under size you still have to put it back.
show us the ratio of commercial contacts to public contacts & then the related offenses with the tonnages of fish involved with the offenses. Oh wait that would be proper reporting & journalism wouldn't it. Ive been involved with the commercial side for over 30 years the level of offending is insane. These people have no idea.
what about the camera offences on the commerical fleet would like to see that
There nothing to see otherwise this clown would be showing it .
The laws are too weak
Meanwhilst off the Hoki grounds 50mile off south island factory trawler catches another 100tonnes ....and 6 officers doing a 3 week sting on some guy in gizzy with 5 undersize crays whose just lost their job ...
Anyone who repeat offends with this stuff, either rec or comm, should have all the equipment instantly confiscated, sold by the ministry, and the proceeds put back into funding ministry requirements
%100
I'm pretty sure MPI themselves already have that power and even if they didn't, the Police definitely do with their forfeiture/seizure of the proceeds of crime legislation which doesn't even depend on a conviction in the criminal courts. I believe that district court judges can impose an order confiscating/seizing and destroying fishing gear, and auctioning off seized boats and a towing vehicle, if there is a conviction.
@edwardtupper6374 there is definately provision in the law for all of the above but it needs to be mandatory not discretionary. That way these pricks will get the message real fast and the fishery will benefit that little bit more than it does currently.
So sad.
Commercial is out of control....need alot more searches with those numbers.
How do undersize snapper on commercial vessels happen when they have a smaller size limit 25 cm and Joe blogs rec fish 30 cm
40 odd undersize filleted snapper carcasses washed up on Tahuna beach Nelson today... 🤬
The greens having complete control over a largd area would be comprabile to a modern farm.
Pigs.
Confiscate the boat and don't pssy foot around
good on you guys
Then its pathetic laws and punishments, and dumb commerce and maths.
No idea about productivity.
Useless at laws judge,
100s of fish lost….are we talking about 10 kilo….oh yea maths adds up
No worries bout the trawlers in really close can't send long line out because there so close, like always got the wrong people
What about the coconuts
Why is she out yelling n warning them.., simply go over n aren’t them
If you watch the whole thing, they pull up beside them and film the fish in the boat, and all the occupants close up 🤙🏽
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Yeah.. what I am meaning is less song n dance.., they’re inside goat island, pull along side, raft up n quietly arrest em..
Shortly emotional stuff like “you’re in a lot of trouble”… does sound very non playground stuff
Take their boat and fishing gear plus a fine authorities are being to lenient on offenders.
I caught a nice undersized kingfish today and kept it
I caught almost 10,000 lbs one night with a crew of 3 AND WE KEPT ALL OF THEM AND SOLD THEM all hook and line
good for you
Yeeeah good shit
Multiple offenses take their damn boat !!!
What a joke. Rec fishermen get the blame. 1 Commercial dumps a ton of dead fish. R well
Clear an simple don't be greedy
Why does he feel the need to be moari...just do your job
It's a path to easy power in NZ.
The sad thing is most offences are caused by pakeha but maori are blamed. Take accountability for your own race selfishness 🎉
Typical narcissistic culture reply. When I used to dive and I stuck to the rules and didn't use tanks for shellfish, it was the Maori who used Tanks and just Ravished the kai moana. The keepers the land 😂, they couldn't lie straight in bed, cunning as Maori Dogs 😂
You just justified the comment
Got any proof or just some taniwha whispered that in your ear?
As a former officer I can confirm your statement couldn’t be further from the truth! Of the recreational breaches I would of guessed 50% Maori/PI 30% Asian and 20% pakeha
@@MediVacPack hahahaha called out again. Your people... they just can't help themselves 😅
Why don't you stop the corporations