Fisheries police costly
PA ' Wellington It cost New Zealand almost as much to police its ’ 200-mile economic zone last year as it gained from licence fees for foreign fishing boats. The Minister of Fisheries (Mr Maclntyre) told Parliament yesterday that New Zealand’s revenue from foreign boats for the 1979-80 year had been $8,013,000 and the
‘cost of policing the economic zone was $7,447,000. Replying to a written question by Mr S. J. Rodger (Lab., Dunedin North), Mr Maclntyre also gave figures that showed that the foreign countries fishing in New Zealand waters took only a proportion of their allocated quota of fish during the year. The South Koreans took only 13.233 tonnes of finfish
(hoki, snapper, tarakihi, and warehou) from a quota of 27.700 tonnes, the Japanese took 27,295 tonnes of a 73,000-tonne finfish quota, and the Russians caught 44,868 tonnes of finfish of a 65,000-tonne quota. The figures do not include catches taken by foreignowned fishing boats chartered by . New Zealand companies.
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