Thread: Whats your solutions to the duck decline?

Yep. A wise person someplace woke up to the the idea that not only our offshore fisheries were getting done over (and still are I m sure) but
also that the shorelines and just offshore were suffering a battering by folks just taking too many fish.
When living in Wellington we spent every fine weekend ( 2 to 3 a year sometimes he he ) on the boat and always saw a certain type of person filling sacks with as many shellfish as they could
(This 20+ years ago around Port Rd area) Well now they wouldnt get away with it. People do not fish like that unless they are prepared to loose their boats,cars etc.
We ve been pulled up at Cooks Beach and checked at 6.30 am returning after an all nighter at the Mercs and not just once.
Go to the Thames Mussel barges to fish you get stopped at the ramp 9 out of 10 times now.
Its had education and resources thrown at it and also good publised cases where fines and confiscations have been imposed.

They have put a lot of effort into it. Where do you get handed decals for your Mai Mai with bird identifcation, numbers allowed etc like the one you see on most boats freely issued at the
ramps as part of the education process? Our fishing club gives them away at the monthly comp most years plus sizes are slightly higher there than the legal ones to weigh in.

Hard to police duck shooters for sure but IMO its time. Nail the guys taking too many. Educate everyone as to why. Its so the next generation have a sport left to engage in.
I too hear the stories of 100 to 300 between 2 to 3 shooters. In reality a 22 year old said to me at a motocross event two weeks ago they have their 1st ton of maise round the pond
Got the 2nd one ready to go. Should get 200 + plus on opening morning between two of them. Very accomplished shooters he scores 96 out of 100 clay shooting and competes from time to time.
I simply said thats wrong how long do you think you re gonna be albe to do that for ? and he spat the dummy. Wanted a fight and got really loud. His missus had to take him away as she knew he was on the road
to nowhere with me. Buts thats the attuitude. Catch those foccers.Take their guns. Take their vehicles Ban them from Duck Shooting for a year or two.Take their fire arms licences.
They are unfit to have a license as they are breaking the law with it.

A rant but things need to change with all the enviromental changes we cant change this is one thing we could if some resource was thrown at it.