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Compliance
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Rights Protection
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Reseeding
co-ordinating
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Supporting
Paua Mac's
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Paua Conference
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Liasing with MFish
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Liasing with overseas Abalone fisheries
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Stock Assessment process
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Fine Scale
management and reporting
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Fish plans/stock strategies/
management plans
 


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Compliance
The most pressing matter the industry has at this time is the level of poaching that is occurring. If the current levels of illegal take continue there could be anxious times ahead as the double impact of loss of fish stocks and competition in the market place from illegal product gets worse. Read more...
Rights Protection
Marine Reserves (MR) and Marine Protected Areas (MPA) are taking a substantial amount of PICL's time and resources but this is likely to be the biggest and most immediate threat on the horizon to the commercial paua fisheries where rights protection is concerned. Of all the fishing Industries affected by inshore area closures, paua is certain to be impacted most. Read more...

Reseeding co-ordinating
There are now reseeding projects (the out-planting on to the coast of hatchery grown juvenile paua) running in Kaikoura (Pau3), The Chatham Islands (Pau4), Stewart Island (Pau5B), The Catlin Coast (Pau5D), The Fiordland Coast (Pau5D) and Marlborough (Pau7). Read more...

Supporting Paua Mac's
PICL is available to assist PauaMacs and as an example PICL has been involved with PauaMacs in a supporting role assisting this PauaMac as it has struggled to get quota owner participation. Read more...
Paua Conference
 The Paua Industry conferences are held each year. You can download PDF’s of the presentations given. Read more….
 
Liasing with MFish
Since the establishment of PICL there has been a distinct improvement in the interaction between the paua industry and MFish officials and it appears that this will continue to improve as the advent of "joint cooperation" becomes more prevalent. Read more...
Liasing with overseas Abalone fisheries
There is so much that can be learnt from other abalone fisheries around the world. PICL has now established links with many of these. Read more...
Stock Assessment process
Each Quota Management Area is in line for a Stock Assessment once every 3 to 10 years, depending on the perception of the health of that fishery. These are hugely expensive projects ($250,000) which are cost recovered from quota owners. Read more...
Fine Scale management and reporting
Micro Management of paua fisheries is the paramount way to increase productivity and PICL have been involved with the investigation of several ideas that rectify the biggest hurdle which is the difference in scale of fishing effort vs the scale of reporting. Read more...
Fish plans/stock strategies/management plans
There is concern within the commercial fishing industry as to what a Fisheries Plan is and over the past five years; just when the industry thinks it has established what they could embrace - the goal posts shift. Read more...
 
 

 

 
 

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