Election 2020 - Party Policies - Primary Industries and Rural Issues - Fisheries
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- Enable tangata whenua to exercise their kaitiakitanga over the marine environment, including accessing their customary and commercial fishing resources.
- Legislate to make it easier to establish marine reserves and require a shared decision-making approach to ensure kaitiakitanga rights and customary fishing rights are protected.
- Create a network of comprehensive, adequate and representative marine protected areas.
- Apply integrated marine ecosystem management to ensure fish and shellfish populations are maintained at ecologically healthy and resilient levels, recognising the dependencies between different species and the urgent need for intervention for some species.
- Manage all fish stocks taking an ecosystem approach and, where maximum sustainable yield (MSY) is used as a measure of population maintenance, ensure it is treated as a maximum, not a target, level.
- Require use of best practice methods of fishing, including those to reduce by-catch.
- Increase resources, for enforcement of commercial, recreational and customary fisheries regulations to deter illegal and unsustainable take.
- Set a target of near-zero fishing-related mortality of marine mammals, turtles, endangered seabirds, and other threatened marine species, for all fisheries, and close relevant fisheries as soon as a limit is reached.
- Increase research into the environmental effects of fishing methods and into more environmentally responsible fishing methods.
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- Investing significantly to help rural communities and fishing communities recover from COVID-19, including funding to increase access to support, financial and continuity planning advice and wellbeing services.
- Read more here.
- Update the 1993 Tahr Management Plan, staying true to its principles of balancing environmental needs with commercial and recreational hunting opportunities.
- Utilise expertise from the professional and recreational hunting community, including the Game Animal Council, in the control of tahr, wallaby and other game animals.
- Ensure New Zealanders are able to continue to enjoy access to recreational fishing and whitebaiting, and that commercial fishing stocks are managed sustainably so recreational fishers are not adversely impacted.
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- Undertake a review of recreational catch limits and how we can improve our coastal fisheries to ensure we have quality inter-generational fisheries in the future
- Investigate the establishment of a separate Fisheries and Aquaculture Service to be located in regional New Zealand.
- Make $100m available to provide capital to Aquacorp as a way to de-risk ocean based marine farming
- Deliver a fast-track statutory process for aquaculture consents with modest costs
- Support initiatives to require all vessels fishing in New Zealand territorial and economic zone waters to be New Zealand flagged
- Encourage maximum achievable crewing rates of fishing vessels through employing New Zealand citizens and permanent residents as a priority
- Work towards ensuring that all fish caught in New Zealand waters are landed and processed in New Zealand. This includes territorial waters and the EEZ, applying to both local and foreign charter vessels
- Continue to work towards a respectful and fair agreement with industry leaders and stakeholders such as Te Ohu Kaimoana for the creation of a Kermadec Reserve
- Work closely with industry to establish a programme for fleet renewal using a mixture of tax depreciation and other fiscal measures
- Support sectoral vocational training and trades, with preference to training on the job incentives
- Focus and prioritise our trade advocacy efforts in fisheries and aquaculture
- Ensure that any customary permits issued are regularly published to improve decision-making processes and promote confidence in the permit system
- Support more fisheries officers in isolated rural areas
- Invest $25m toward a Marine Biology Facility located in Tauranga
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