Double shift fishing ‘illegal’
PA Auckland The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is investigating complaints that some fishermen are working double shifts to beat catch restrictions. Mr Duncan Chisholm, the senior fisheries officer in Auckland, said last evening that the Ministry believed three boats in the Hauraki Gulf might be adopting such a practice. The Ministry imposed a moratorium on the issuing of all licences more than a year ago. Since the Fisheries Act
came into effect this year the moratorium has virtually continued in order to prevent the depletion of inshore catches. Mr Chisholm said it would be illegal for an owner-skipper to employ another skipper and crew to work his boat on a double shift. Under the Act, he said, only the licensed skipper could work his boat. Mr Chisholm said his office had asked the Fisheries Licensing Authority not to issue any more double skipper licences.
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