Over lunch, former All Black David Kirk talks business, sport, politics and family - and a recipe for how NZ can fill its cup again. Shayne Currie reports..
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Media contact: MPI media team A Lower Hutt man and a Napier man have each received 3-year fishing bans for repeatedly taking excess and undersize pāua, in recent years. The men were sentenced in different courts for the unrelated offending yesterday. Under the Fisheries Act 1996, bans are mandatory for anyone who commits certain offences more than once within 7 years. In 2019 Ionatana Sasi (51) was caught with 144 undersize pāua he took at Eastbourne near Burdan s Gate in Wellington. It was the second time in 4 years that Mr Sasi has been before the court for stealing pāua in this area.
Source: Ministry for Primary Industries
A Lower Hutt man and a Napier man have each received 3-year fishing bans for repeatedly taking excess and undersize pÄua, in recent years.
The men were sentenced in different courts for the unrelated offending yesterday.
Under the Fisheries Act 1996, bans are mandatory for anyone who commits certain offences more than once within 7 years.
In 2019 Ionatana Sasi (51) was caught with 144 undersize pÄua he took at Eastbourne near Burdanâs Gate in Wellington. It was the second time in 4 years that Mr Sasi has been before the court for stealing pÄua in this area.
Pāua poachers banned from fishing after repeat offences
5 Apr, 2021 07:31 AM
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Two repeat pāua poachers have been banned from fishing. Photo / 123RF
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Two repeat pāua poachers have been banned from fishing, both for three years.
A Lower Hutt man and a Napier man were sentenced last week, in unrelated cases, for repeatedly taking excess and undersize pāua.
Ionatana Sasi, 51, was caught by fishery officers in 2019 with 144 undersize pāua at Burdan s Gate near Eastbourne in Wellington.
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It was the second time in four years that he had been before the courts for stealing pāua in the area, the Ministry for Primary Industries said.