| Your Right to
Fish |
| Private
or Public Foreshore
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| Update #44 NZ Fishing News
July 2004 |
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| Privatisation of public resources has been happening
at breakneck speed in the past few years. Our fisheries have been
divided into tradeable quotas and now, it seems, we could lose our
common law rights to the foreshore. |
July
2004
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| NZRFC
Conference
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| A
brief report on the NZRFC conference held in Whangarei including
an insight into how the political parties view fisheries management
and other issues. |
July 2004
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| Fisheries Management |
| Kahawai |
Decision
due
The Minister is due to
make his decision very soon. We anticipate it will be later this
week. Standby for the biggest decision David Benson-Pope has had
to make so far in his role as our Minister of Fisheries. |
July
2004
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Must read – Northland Conservation Board's
submission including a radical proposal to reduce TAC by 10% for
conservation purposes. |
Apr
2004
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Kahawai should be returned to the public
Press release from option4. |
July 2004
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Letter to DoC
option4 write to the manager of the Marine Conservation Unit expressing
concern about DoC's inaction during the kahawai process in relation
to seabirds and mammals. |
July 2004
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| Stuffing around
our kahawai stocks
What will he do? The country's
kahawai stocks are about to be divvied up by a Minister of Fisheries
fresh to the job and with little knowledge of it.. |
July 2004
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| Diverse perspectives
A compilation of submissions
on the proposal to introduce kahawai into the Quota Management System.
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July 2004
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| Aquaculture |
| No court time and no new date set. Update on the appeal to allow
mussel farms in Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Island. |
July 2004
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| Marine Protection |
| Mimiwhangata |
| DoC have initiated another marine reserve proposal. This time it
is to change the Mimiwhangata marine park to a marine reserve. The
proposal document and related information can be found here.... |
July 2004
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| Great Barrier Island |
| DoC have not released
the application for a marine reserve yet but it's not far away.
Expected release date was July 17, no sign of it yet. Standby for
more.... |
July 2004
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| News &
Issues |
| Sand and Sea
AGM - Be There and Be Positive |
The group established
in response to the West Coast Marine Park proposal are holding their
AGM on Thursday 29 July.
Venue:
Deerstalkers Hall, 7 Target Road, Point Chevalier, Auckland. Time:
7.30pm
Please attend and contribute
to the ongoing effort to maintain access to our wild west coast.
After reading the Mimiwhangata
proposal how long do you think it will be before this becomes a
marine reserve proposal? |
July 2004
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| NZCCC Press
Release |
| NZCCC
chairman reacts to DoC's move to destroy a family's bush hideaway
after 18 years of enjoyment. |
July
2004
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