Ngapuhi Meeting

Today was my first day on the new job. We drove to Kaikohe and presented to the Ngapuhi. They were very supportive and the whole experience was very memorable. This is an absolute sh*t photo but standing up talking is a politician called Dover Samuels who was most focal and praised our efforts. Please refer to yesterday's blip for more job details.

The biggest issue we are campaigning for is that the Ministry is trying to alter recreational fishing rights in an area called Snapper 1 which is our biggest snapper zone and the most used by commercial and recreational. We are really taking the battle to the government on this one as cutting recreational rights does not address the real issue which is fish dumping and severe mortality rates from commercial fishing practises and we should address both commercial and recreational mortality rates overall before we start doing anything.