Foreign fishing
Sir, —You report record catches of hoki on the West Coast. It would seem that the New Zealand Government is delighted at the substantially increased short-term rentals it is reaping from the massive plundering of this resource, virtually all from foreign vessels. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has repeatedly failed to protect our precious fisheries (e.g., the orange roughy debacle) so it is essential that we work toward the removal of all foreign vessels. A phasing-out plan must be instigated urgently before another resource is decimated. We need a sustainable fishery, owned, and operated by New Zealanders. The Government, by its actions, is not interested in promoting this concept; not when it can receive such short-term financial bounties. What happens when future hoki catches start to seriously diminish through overexploitation from foreign vessels? We all lose through greed and poor planning. Out with all foreign vessels before it is too late. — Yours, etc., J. BLAND. August 23, 1988.
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