Thread: Eugenie Sage wants to Ban Whitebaiting

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Back to the Whitebait, how would it be if recreational baiters had to use a registered bucket (bought from doc who -else) for their catch and when the buckets full you've got your limit, say 2kg. On some Canterbury rivers, baiters camp for the whole season, fish every good day, sell the bait and obstruct anyone else from fishing

I don't think anyone is against some forms of improvement.
I just get sick of being told the whitebait are in decline coz research suggests it is. Maybe elsewhere in Nz but some of the best seasons on record, have happened here on the coast in the last 10 years. Must be the same people doing the Thar counts

I think commercial fishers should have a quota and rec fishers also have some restrictions.
Every major industry the coast has thrived on has been slowly and slyly taken away by the government under the guise of conservation.
I don't have any great ideas how to regulate whitebaiting but most of us here that enjoy it are open to something. We are sick to death of a government that has no idea of life here on the coast destroying everything that makes it tick.




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