Thread: Possible changes to snapper limits for Area SNA1

I was actually bought up in Papamoa and remember my grandfather going out with his surfcaster and coming back with decent catches only after spending and hour or so at the beach and the same when my father and I went fishing at the beach over the back of our old house on simpson road it was generally guaranteed catches. Last time I fished Pikowai and a few places around papamoa it saddened me to see that surfcasting around there was not as successful as it was back through the 70's and 80's and even the mussel stocks around maketu have depleted and even little waihi estuary and its recent pollution from septic tanks we used to get good feeds of cockles and oysters (beds of them ontop of the sand just reach in and pick em up) out of there now it is not advisable do not know what it is like now as it has been a few years now since I fished Pukehina beach at the estuary entrance. But yeas certain areas of Tauranga Harbour would make a good reserve I know a rohi was placed on the gathering of mussels around leisure island a few years ago maybe they need to do the same with maketu for the mussels.