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There are nine different benefits you receive from your PICL levies:
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Marine
reserves and marine protected areas. PICL will be leading the
charge against the proliferation of marine reserves and other
commercial exclusion zones around the coast of NZ. PICL will
be at the forefront of driving industry objections, submissions
and advocacy on marine reserve and marine protected area issues.
PICL will work with other stakeholder organisations to take
greater interest in spatial access issues.
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Networking.
PICL will be networking with similar industry organisations
in Australia , South Africa, and the USA which will enable the
NZ industry to bring overseas expertise into a number or debates
with MFish and DoC. |
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Cost
Recovery, Levies and Charges. PICL will work with other stakeholder
organisations to demand better accountability and attribution
of fisheries costs from MFish. |
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Compliance
Levies and Compliance strategies. PICL will push MFish to deliver
more and better services for the compliance levy dollar. |
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Customary
Fisheries Issues, including Regulation 27. PICL will be actively
participating to force changes to MFish policies in relation
to Regulation 27 permits. PICL will continue developing good
quality alliances with Maori representatives at national and
local levels in an attempt to integrate customary rights into
an overall plan of management for paua fisheries. The intention
is to avoid unnecessary disruption to established commercial
fishing routines whilst still enabling legitimate customary
harvest. The prospect of proliferation of mataitai areas –
which are non-commercial by definition, is an incentive for
frequent and productive dialogue with Maori representatives. |
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Coordinating
Research with TAC/TACC and sustainability issues and decisions.
PICL will take a leading role in promoting ongoing dialogue
between industry, service providers and non commercial fishing
sectors to ensure the industry develops and implements timely
responses to current issues. |
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Protecting
commercial property rights in a growing aquaculture environment.
PICL will assist in the development of standards and specifications
that enable paua farmers to obtain brood stock from the wild
fishery with no adverse impact on future catches by commercial
fishermen. PICL is involved with MFish to ensure that farmed
paua are not released into the wild fishery unless there are
explicit guarantees and warranties against the introduction
of diseases, and that there are no exclusive “ownership”
rights granted to enhanced wild fisheries other than where commercial
rights holders have agreed to such projects |
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Getting
value for money from SeaFIC Levies. PICL will ensure that we
get the best possible value from the generic services provided
by SeaFIC. |
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There
are many other tasks undertaken by PICL on a routine basis –
monitoring national, regional and local government agencies
and their effects on commercial paua fishing, and also monitoring
the work and the issues associated with other commercial stakeholder
organisations to ensure that the paua industry is not disadvantaged
by any deals done by them. |
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