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Future of Recreational Fishing Public Meetings

14 August, 2017
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To promote our policy recommendations on recreational fisheries management, The New Zealand Initiative organised a series of public consultation meetings. Randall Bess travelled to five locations in the South Island and nine in the North Island to gather feedback on his recommendations for improving recreational fisheries in New Zealand.

Several hundred people attended the meetings to hear Randall talk about his draft report, The Future Catch.

Following the public consultation, the report’s final recommendations were presented to the new government at the end of the year.

 

Have your say about the future of fishing. New Zealanders are keen fishers. But they are concerned about decreasing fish stock abundance. They are also concerned that access to stocks, we once took for granted, is increasingly coming under threat.

The New Zealand Initiative shares these concerns and has conducted research both in New Zealand and overseas to find better ways of managing fish stocks important to recreational fishers.

Following the publication of two earlier reports (What’s the Catch? and The Overseas Catch), we will release our draft recommendations for fisheries reform on 1 August.

These public meetings will take place up and down the country. We want to hear from the New Zealand recreational fishing community what they make of our ideas – and contribute their own views and opinions.
Please join us.

 

*Click on date to register 

 

Dates                                    

Town/City             

Location

Time

Tues, 15 Aug

Kaikoura

Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 30 Ludstone Road
With guest speaker Margaret Wind, New Zealand Recreational Fishing Council

7pm

Wed, 16 Aug

Blenheim

Scenic Hotel, 65 Alfred Street

7pm

Thurs, 17 Aug

Nelson

Trafalgar Complex Pavilion, Hathaway Ct, The Wood
With guest speaker Geoff Rowling, Our Fishing Future

7pm

Wed, 23 Aug

Christchurch

Woolston Club, 43 Hargood Street, Woolston
With guest speaker Sir Mark Solomon

7.30pm

Thurs, 24 Aug

Dunedin

Tautuku Fishing Club, 42 Southdale Road, Ocean Grove
With guest speaker Geoff Rowling, Our Fishing Future

5pm

Tues, 5 Sept

New Plymouth

New Plymouth Sportfishing & Underwater Club, Ocean View Parade
With guest speaker Geoff Rowling, Our Fishing Future

7pm

Thurs, 7 Sept

Wellington

Petone Working Men's Club, 47 Udy Street, Petone
With guest speaker Geoff Rowling, Our Fishing Future

7pm

Tues, 12 Sept

Whitianga

Mercury Bay Game Fishing Club, 12 The Esplanade
With guest speakers Margaret Wind & Keith Ingram, New Zealand Recreational Fishing Council

7pm

Mon, 18 Sept

Mt Maunganui

Mount Ocean Sports Club, 96 Marsden Road
With guest speaker Dr Andrew Rowland, Recfishwest

7pm

Tues, 19 Sept 

Paihia

Bay of Islands Swordfishing Club, 96 Marsden Road
With guest speaker Dr Andrew Rowland, Recfishwest

7pm

Wed, 20 Sept

Auckland

Bucklands Beach Yacht Club, Ara Tai, Half Moon Bay

7pm

Thurs, 21 Sept

Napier

Hawkes Bay Sport Fishing Club, 30 Nelson Quay, Ahuriri

7pm

Mon, 25 Sept

Paraparaumu

Kapiti Boating Club, Paraparaumu Beach

7pm

Tues, 10 Oct

Hamilton

Waikato Sport Fishing Club, Grantham Street
(no registration needed, just show up)

7.30pm

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