For New Zealand Fishing News magazine, issue June 2014
In the eight months since Nathan Guy’s Snapper 1 decision there have been no material improvements to reducing the mortality rate in the northeastern fishery. If anything, things are worse. We still have masses of juvenile and adult fish being killed by trawlers inshore. We also have increased mortality caused by recreational fishers returning fish they would otherwise have taken home for a feed, and then continuing to fish longer than what they would have a year ago.