Fisheries Management ANNUAL REPORT
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Fisheries Management ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 1 Directory Contents Fisheries Management - Marine Protection Standing Committee Lewis Avenell Chairman [email protected] 022 354 9392 President’s Report ............................................................................................................................ 3 Peter Campbell Management team [email protected] 027 497 6305 Chairman’s Report Fisheries Management ...................................................................................... 4 Bob Gutsell Management team [email protected] 021 750 562 Fisheries Management Standing Committee Report........................................................................ 5 Ken Barry Management team [email protected] 027 252 5797 Working Together ............................................................................................................................. 9 Mark Connor Management team [email protected] 027 432 7485 NZSFC Fisheries Management Income and Expenditure ................................................................ 10 Wayne Bicknell Management team [email protected] 027 521 1001 Fisheries Management – Marine Protection Standing Committee ................................................... 11 Richard Baker Co-opted [email protected] 021 869 889 LegaSea Annual Report 2019-20 ..................................................................................................... 13 Scott Macindoe Co-opted [email protected] 021 622 463 LegaSea Projects ............................................................................................................................. 15 Dirk Sieling Co-opted [email protected] 021 154 0123 LegaSea Hawkes Bay Report .......................................................................................................... 17 Andy Stewart (NZUA) Co-opted [email protected] 021 703 003 LegaSea Income and Expenditure ................................................................................................... 19 Jim Yeoman (NZACA) Co-opted [email protected] 027 442 9628 Fisheries Management – Marine Protection Service Providers........................................................ 20 Testimonials ...................................................................................................................................... 21 NZSFC Incorporated Celebrations ..................................................................................................................................... 22 Patron John Chibnall By the numbers Partners and Supporters .................................................................................................................. 23 Executive Member clubs 55 President Bob Gutsell Life members 8 Vice Presidents Peter Campbell & Ian Steele Affiliated members 36,219 Board members Bob Gutsell Zone Board representatives 8 Peter Campbell IGFA members 10 Ian Steele Administration Pete Saul - Zone 1 CEO Steven Stanford Lewis Avenell - Zone 2 Admin Officer Helen Pastor Warren Maher - Zone 3 Auditor Tim England Vance Fulton - Zone 4 Records Officer Pete Saul Wayne Bicknell - Zone 5 Ken Barry - Zone 6 Contact Mark Connor - Zone 7 Helen Pastor 027 4853600 Ross Lucas - Zone 8 [email protected] Mark Hemmingway - IGFA/Life Members Phil Appleyard (Immediate Past President) Scott Macindoe - Co-opted Report version: 1.2 Richard Baker - Co-opted Dirk Sieling - Co-opted New Zealand Sport Fishing Council Inc. PO Box 54242, The Marina, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent Half Moon Bay, Auckland 2144. Attendees at the 2019 Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council, hosted by Mana Cruising club, Wellington. about the things that matter.” Martin Luther King www.nzsportfishing.org.nz Image credit: Miah Dixon/NZ Fishing Media. Image credits: Mike Bhana, Si Yates, Guy Mac, Trish Rea, Digital Fish, Miah Dixon, Kaye van der Straten,1 Aaron Mclean. www.nzsportfishing.org.nz 2 Chairman’s Report Fisheries Management It has been a testing year for the fisheries Yeoman, Andy Stewart and all our contractors. President’s Report management team. Covid-19 has created Without you all we would not be in the some frustrations, but also given us position we are now. an opportunity to regroup and upskill. Toitū te marae a Tāne-Mahuta, Toitū te marae “Bobby my boy, if things don’t change, they’ll The New Zealand Sport Fishing Council Throughout all levels of the Council we have a Tangaroa, Toitū te tangata. (If the land is well stay as they are” are the words of an old is proud to be at the forefront of the continued meetings through online mediums and the sea is well, the people will thrive) workmate I’ll never forget. In his own unique development of an alternative to the QMS, and such as Zoom. English way Dudley was telling me that I can delighted to see the launch of the Rescue Fish To better manage our resources in the future either take or make what’s coming. proposal and campaign. Lewis Avenell we have identified three NZSFC engagement NZSFC FMMP Chair As the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council We are the first organisation in NZ to stop types to participate in fisheries management, changes we’re making our own future, and that moaning about the failed QMS and invest they are: future is finding new ways to deliver value for proactively in the next steps, that is to our member clubs. offer a solution that provides abundant 1. Short, sharp submissions on minor issues. fisheries through a more dynamic fisheries “High Level/Low priority” This year we have represented your fishing management system, better outcomes for interests to the Government through 25 2. Comprehensive submissions on selected the commercial fishers themselves and co- submissions covering more than 25 species stocks. governance for mana whenua. and nine Fisheries Management areas. 3. Engagement in selected working groups. We are playing the long game here. Whilst We are also engaged in three Resource we are the ones starting the conversation, The Fisheries Management - Marine Protection Management Act (RMA) processes. Since it is only a matter of time before other Standing Committee (FMMP) will continue the Environment Court invoked what we now stakeholders realise it is time to sit down and to deliver regular Quarterly Reports for know as the “Motiti Lockout”, this approach is talk about a better future for NZ fisheries and club delegates and affiliated members. The spreading across NZ like its own virus, being all New Zealanders. feedback we receive is invaluable and fuels us. pushed hard by Forest & Bird and various local Thank you. groups with their own environmental agenda. In summary, we have had a huge year despite We recently attended Court appointed numerous challenges. My heartfelt thanks to The NZSFC Fisheries Management Policy mediation hearings for the Bay of Islands my fellow Board members. You have had a Document is growing, with pending additions appeal. These hearings are confidential. We lot more work to do this year. The Standing of hāpuku, bronze whaler sharks and scallops are attending these in full force with local club Committees have not missed a beat and at the 2020 AGM. It is these policies that representatives and our own legal team led continue to develop first class process and give guidance and alignment for our team by Rowan Ashton and experienced advocates governance procedures we can all be proud of. and contractors to write submissions on your John Holdsworth, Barry Torkington and Vance behalf. This document can be updated and Thanks in particular to Steven Stanford, Helen Fulton. modified by a notice of motion at any AGM. If Pastor, John Holdsworth, Trish Rea, Barry you or your zones have any requirements or The RMA coming into play is a direct result of Torkington, Glen Carbines, Jess Beetham, Sam additions please notify the FMMP committee a failed Quota Management System (QMS). Woolford, Piet Battaerd, Benn Winlove, Louise or make notes in your Zone Minutes. With the precedent set by the Motiti decision, O’Sullivan, Simon Yates and Jack Dodson. 1402 local groups are taking matters into their own Your tireless efforts see us deeply engaged There have been interesting developments in anglers from around NZ fished the 2020 hands and using the RMA to restrict fishing and participating in so many aspects of fisheries management over the last year, all Nationals practices. Certainly not something the Act was fisheries management, marine protection and stem from the failure of the Fisheries Act and designed for. community initiatives. Thanks to our Partners, the Quota Management System to protect fish sponsors, funding organisations and LegaSea stocks, biodiversity and the environment. Since For quite some time we have been saying 4 Legends. With your commitments we are the Motiti environment court decision councils the QMS is a slow moving beast that has Quarterly reports outlining activity, poised to deliver remarkable outcomes with around the country have been scrambling to passed its use-by date. The Minister’s recent submissions and meetings FishCare, Kai Ika and Rescue Fish! draw lines on maps to protect the biodiversity decisions for tarakihi and crayfish, where the within their boundaries. This somehow must allocations for commercial and allowances for We have worked hard this year to set up for be done without initiating any fishing controls recreational interests were slashed, are due to our “New Normal,” for the New Zealand that that would overlap with