The proposed changes to your snapper allocation pits leisure fishermen against commercial operations. Harry Pearl reports.

In 1999, Darryl O’Keefe had been made an offer he could not refuse. Their father-in-law, Roy Andrews, whom’d spent years taking care of the mussel barges dotted on the list of overseas islands between Coromandel and Colville, had heard of possibility of a fishing charter away from Coromandel city.

The mussel farms – therefore the barges that harvest them – attract ratings of snapper. The mussels and shells that fall off the buoyed longlines and are also crushed during processing certainly are a food that is ready for the scavengers. Read more →