Saturday, 1 May 2021, 1:03 pm
The government through the Department of Conservation
seems to make a major play for state ownership of the
public’s fish and game resources and sport via the
department’s review of the Fish and Game organisation says
the Council of Outdoor Recreational Associations of New
Zealand (CORANZ).
“The call by the review is to
strip the fishing and hunting public of its right to manage
its affairs, in return for an increased fishing and hunting
licence fees to fund the paid positions of government
appointees,” said Andi Cockroft, CORANZ
chairman.
Cockroft said it is very clear the policies
Press Release – Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ The government through the Department of Conservation seems to make a major play for state ownership of the publics fish and game resources and sport via the departments review of the Fish and Game organisation says the Council of Outdoor Recreational …
The government through the Department of Conservation seems to make a major play for state ownership of the public’s fish and game resources and sport via the department’s review of the Fish and Game organisation says the Council of Outdoor Recreational Associations of New Zealand (CORANZ).
“The call by the review is to strip the fishing and hunting public of its right to manage its affairs, in return for an increased fishing and hunting licence fees to fund the paid positions of government appointees,” said Andi Cockroft, CORANZ chairman.
The current government needs to instigate far stricter controls on foreigners buying up New Zealand’s countryside says the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations as well as keeping the New Zealand public informed of the extent of outsiders buying up country-side.
“Frustratingly figures are few and far between to make an accurate assessment but the public should be given regular and accurate statistics on an issue which most New Zealanders feel strongly about,” said CORANZ chairman Andi Cockroft.
Most Kiwis Opposed
Past opinion polls indicated as many as 90 percent of New Zealanders were opposed or concerned he said.
In late 2019 it was revealed by Radio NZ that the four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies.
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