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WHAT DOES option4.co.nz STAND FOR?
   
 

option4.co.nz representatives are not negotiable on the following principles and will demand the following on behalf of all those who endorse the option4.co.nz submission.

  • No licensing of the public to exercise their rights to fish.

  • The public must have a priority over commercial fishers and free access to reasonable daily bag limit in legislation.

  • An area right capable of excluding commercial methods that deplete recreationally important areas

  • The ability to devise plans to ensure future generations enjoy the same or better quality of rights while preventing fish conserved for such purposes being given to the commercial sector.

option4.co.nz will not let them compromise your rights to fish and gather seafood. Option4.co.nz will not sell out the rights of future New Zealanders to a reasonable daily bag limit. Option4.co.nz will not let the public of New Zealand become a minor shareholder in a commercially run fishery.

The redefinition of recreational fishing rights must include the following:

  • The recreational share must provide individual access to a reasonable daily bag limit within sustainable limits - The recreational share must vary to accommodate inevitable growth in recreational fishing as the population increases

  • The recreational share must be insulated from being adversely affected by the behaviour of any other sector - Recreational fishers must be able to formulate plans to achieve the objective of enhancing and protecting recreational rights, quality of fishing and the level of stock required to achieve these two objectives. If these plans cannot be done co- operatively with other users, then they must be able to be done on an individual user group basis. A mechanism for protecting fish conserved by recreational fishers must be developed to prevent other users from plundering recreationally conserved fish under such plans.

  • An area right to create recreational only or recreationally controlled fishing areas similar to the Mataitai and Taipure reserves created for Maori must be created for recreational. It is simply inadequate to suggest that solutions created to address Maori Traditional concerns and largely controlled by Maori are a suitable vehicle to address and resolve recreational access issues.