Review submission. Joint recreational response to fisheries review. 14 December 2015

The New Zealand Sport Fishing Council and affiliated members, the New Zealand Angling and Casting Association and LegaSea supporters contributed to this comprehensive submission. The submission sets out fisheries management 101 – First set a very strong environmental standard and stick to it, then ensure that commercial users pay a fair fee for the commercial exploitation of common property fisheries resources. The rest is detail. New Zealand’s fisheries management system fails on both counts.