Thread: Commercial response to todays changes in SNA1

Sadly cam those days are gone hell I remember mum and dad spending $100 a week or maybe less to feed them and us two kids. and damn near every weekend it was off over the sand dunes from where we lived on simpson road in papamoa fishing and grabbing a feed of tua tua and getting a good bucket load of whitebait out of the kaituna cut during whitebait season. But now our poplation is exploding jobs are getting harder to get as there is normally 8-900 other people applying for the same job, employers would rather not train someone to do a job but hire skilled staff from overseas hence the increase in population, therefore increasing the unemployment rate. If our population was to shrink back down to what it was back in the 70's and 80's I do not know what it would do to our country or the economy would be hard to say if it would improve it all or send the country to total bankruptcy. What needs to be sorted out is the banning of bottom trawlers from trawling close to the shoreline and boot them 10k's offshore and go longlines only for commercial snapper fishing close to the shoreline then there would not be any need to cause a big fish wastage through dumping and the whole process can be more selective and a better chance to put those undersized or small ones back alive. But will we be listened to hell no they care more about making money than conserving the underwater environment by preventing damage to it.