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We are in Fiordland this summer. Bugger all recreational fishermen and let me say plenty of fish. We saw free jumping bluefin north of Milford. Last time I saw free jumping tuna in the north island was off Whakatane in the late 90s (yellowfin). The recreational pressure from Tauranga north is just too much for the fishery to sustain.

Do we want to continue in the direction we are going or change our ways and allow the coastal marine ecosystem a chance to rejuvenate? Coastal fishing is interesting to me because its an area where private citizens are actually in direct competition for a resource with a commercial sector that has legal rights to it. So you have two powerful interest groups in going for the same slice of pie, its as if there were no farms and the countryside was full of wild sheep and cows being hunted at a greater rate than they they could replenish. When I hear an area like Brett being closed its hard