Press Release – Fish and Game New Zealand To help save New Zealands wild Chinook salmon species, a ground-breaking change to freshwater fishing regulations will introduce a season bag for sea-run salmon in the 2021/22 fishing season, in place of a daily catch limit. “The wild sea-run …
To help save New Zealand’s wild Chinook salmon species, a ground-breaking change to freshwater fishing regulations will introduce a season bag for sea-run salmon in the 2021/22 fishing season, in place of a daily catch limit.
“The wild sea-run salmon fishery has been in decline for over 20 years, traditional regulatory options haven’t been working for Fish & Game so new techniques were required,” says Alan Strong, Chair of North Canterbury Fish and Game Council.
The trout fishing and duck shooting public are overwhelmingly opposed to a proposal to inject Government appointees into Fish and Game. That is the interim result from an on-going survey by the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA) of .