Plan for fish sales at sea
PA Wellington New Zealand fishermen may soon catch fish for Japanese and Russian mother ships under a new system of fishing being investigated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
The Minister (Mr MacIntyre) told the Federation of Commercial Fishermen in Auckland that his department was looking at a system widely used in the United States and Britain.
The system could give local fishermen more work by enabling them to catch fish now taken by foreign jointventure boats. They could then sell their catches at sea and transfer them straight into foreign mother ships. At present a number of New Zealand fish-processing companies are involved in foreign joint ventures where a percentage of the foreign catch is landed in New Zealand for on-shore processing. The main advantage of the new system was that it provided ' more work for the catching sector and was another progressive means of phasing out foreign joint ventures without an abrupt end to foreign involvement, Mr Maclntvre said.
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