Thread: Commercial vs Recreational Hunting in NZ

Originally Posted by Kudu

Good topic and title! This should be a good discussion.

My personal opinion is that there should be no commercial hunting on department of conservation land. I do not like the idea of someone making money off what effectively is not theirs and belongs to all NZ'ers. However I realise that this would impossible to manage as an operator could just tell a client to say that he isn't getting paid if someone pulls them up, or that they are just mates.

I'll use Tahr as an example. I am sure if there is a guide in the Alps and the only shootable bull is an 11" they will probably pull the trigger as they want their client to go home with an animal. Where a recreational hunter would more than likely leave it to grow and look for a bigger one.

I want NZ's deer herds to be managed so that they are healthy for my kids or grand kids. If there is a commercial operation of any sort I don't believe this will happen as 9 times out of 10 the dollar trumps morals. In cases like the wapiti and whitetail on the mainland I would love for there to be no hunting for years or even a decade in the case of the white-tail, and heavy fines for people who breach this. As I am not worried about what hunting is there for me and would sacrifice my hunting for the benefit of the next generation.

......I won't say that I would also love to bring in pure wapiti semen and AI a few cows in the wapiti area as I realise that this is not allowed and very controversial.....

Hunting guides are using public land for commercial gain.
A huge % of tourism ventures are using public land. What is the difference?

I also have to ask if waro is ceased completely how do we manage the animals?
Search and destroy?
Poison?
Government funded hunting?

Please dont say recreational hunting.

Waro can possibly be done sustainably to appease all parties but somewhere along the line someone is going to miss out.

I am all for a change concerning waro but the first thing is to get the animals classed differently to what they are now.







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