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 .
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 1:02 pm
Hunters and fishers would largely be deprived from
participation and management of their sports body, NZ Fish
and Game, if recommendations contained in a recently
released Government-instigated review of their organisation
are adopted, states the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater
Anglers (NZFFA).
“It takes out the heart of
‘user-pays/user says’,” says NZFFA president Dr Peter
Trolove.
The review proposes control being passed to
the Minister of Conservation and the Department of
Conservation (DOC).
“This so-called
‘independent’ review, called for by former Minister of
Conservation, Eugenie Sage, highlights a glaring conflict of
interest within a government department in which many see
Friday, 19 February 2021, 12:04 pm
The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA),
a national trout and rivers advocacy body, states that trout
farming would be of no nett economic benefit to New Zealand
and could be disastrous to the country’s tourism-related
wild trout sports fishing ‘industry’ that is
conservatively estimated to be worth over $1.5 million
annually and which employs thousands of people in rural
areas.
NZFFA was responding to a report
(
BusinessDesk Feb 16,) that government was not
opposed to commercial trout farming but did not see it as an
immediately need. The association’s president Dr Peter
Trolove, a veterinarian with first-hand experience of fish
Sunday, 17 January 2021, 3:29 pm
A drastic decline in an important native fish in New
Zealand has been matched by a similar decline in a similar
species in the USA.
On the east coast of the South
Island Stokell’s smelt is the species of the rivers of the
Canterbury coastline, which until relatively recently,
occurred in huge numbers from about Canterbury’s Waiau
River south to North Otago s Waitaki River.
However
depletion of river flows due to irrigation in rivers such as
the Rangitata, Ashburton, and Rakaia Rivers where the smelt
was most abundant, has seen a drastic decline in numbers,