How can a person dining in the finest European restaurant have more right to eat New Zealand fish than a man standing on the beach casting a line to catch a fish for his kids’ dinner?

Increasing public awareness about why and how our fisheries have declined is a priority for option4. So too is offering cost effective long-term solutions to rebuild our fisheries to former abundance levels. In today’s environmentally friendly world it makes no sense to kill so many juvenile fish in the process of landing fish for export.

It is unfathomable why Kiwis are being denied access to healthy fisheries in the pursuit of feeding the world with quality fish.

Thousands of Kiwis have also objected to the ongoing use of industrial, bulk harvesting methods such as purse seining to scoop up thousands of schools of kahawai for low value use such as crayfish bait and fish meal.