| Kahawai
Survey Response
Williams
2004
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Brief Comment on Kahawai Fishing from Coromandel North
Who am I?
Keith Williams, Construction manager, Auckland. Weekend recreational
fisherman, ex commercial fisherman, ex fishing guide
Where do I fish?
88% Waitemata, 10% outer gulf, 10% Whangaroa (Northland), 2% west
coast of Auckland.
What was the fishing like?
Early 1980's most trips around Rangitoto would see large schools
of kahawai chasing bait fish (sometimes kahawai being the only fish
caught for the day).
There were also large schools at Whangaroa and with them came thousands
of birds eating the bait fish.
How has it changed?
January 2004 I spent time at the Mokohinaus, Great Barrier, Coromandel,
Firth of Thames. There were no schools of kahawai and minimal bird
life.
It seems to me the kahawai are an integral part of the chain between
water and air.
In the last five months I have caught three very small kahawai off
the rocks at Great Barrier and two large ones off a west coast beach.
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