Election 2017 - Party Policies - Primary Industries and Rural Issues - Fisheries
27th May 17, 9:15am
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Fisheries
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- Review the laws controlling our waters to ensure unified, consistent processes and goals covering fisheries, conservation, biosecurity, bio- prospecting, marine farming, marine transport, tourism and coastal processes under the Resource Management Act.
- Move to integrated marine ecosystem management to ensure fish populations are maintained at ecologically sustainable levels rather than single species stock management as occurs now, and to ensure that non target marine and seabird species are meaningfully considered.
- Propose a return to resource rentals, as existed until 1992, because New Zealanders currently get no return from companies deriving profits by fishing public resources
- Ensure allowable catches for species newly introduced into the QMS are set at very precautionary levels until research is completed that would enable sustainable levels to be set with confidence.
- Introduce environmental impact assessments for fishing technologies.
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- Set clear, scientifically justifiable targets for rebuilding fisheries to sustainable levels and standards for managing the impacts of fishing on the environment; and enable and facilitate fisheries resource users to meet those targets and standards.
- Review the Resource Management Act to promote integrated management and protect fisheries habitats and aquaculture areas from the impacts of land-based activities.
- Obtain accurate information on commercial fishing activity, making use of new technology while also considering and correcting the underlying incentives that drive misreporting and illegal discarding.
- Work with Maori fisheries stakeholders to ensure that the full range of Maori rights and interests in fisheries and the marine environment are able to be exercised in an integrated manner, consistent with the obligations in the Maori Fisheries Settlement.
- Institute an independent review of the performance of both MPI and the Quota Management System; and implement digital reporting and monitoring systems that are cost effective, fit for purpose, and provide real fisheries management benefits.
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- Promote the transition from net setting and trawling (which would be out to the 100m depth contour) to more selective sustainable methods thereby enhancing biodiversity within the marine area and preventing the extinction of marine species.
- Review the Quota Management System and current New Zealand fisheries management to address issues of fish dumping, the non-reporting of bycatch and illegal fishing practices.
- Support the rebuilding of depleted fish stocks for inshore fisheries and the closure of sensitive inshore fisheries areas to destructive commercial harvesting methods to protect and enhance the environment and save juvenile fish.
- Enhance biodiversity within the marine area and prevent the extinction of the Māui dolphin and other marine life.
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- Best practice science and stock monitoring in support of sustainable harvest or Total Allowable Catch.
- The determination of the limit of a recreational inshore fishery and the exclusion of trawling and other bulk commercial fishing methods within that determined inshore limit including areas of high juvenile abundance.
- Consistent minimum legal size for recreational and commercial fishers and restrictions on commercial net size and type.
- The reliable and accurate monitoring of commercial boat operations and locations and the prohibition of dumping.
- That all fish caught in New Zealand waters to be landed and processed in New Zealand.
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- Establish a graduated and comprehensive scheme for marine protection across our entire marine environment.
- Develop new marine protection categories to make certain areas non-commercial fishing while allowing recreational fishing.
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