The 2008 National Meeting of Regional Recreational Fishing Forums

The second National Meeting of Regional Recreational Fishing Forums took place in Auckland in November 2008.

This year’s meeting was held in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour. The meeting was held over two consecutive days (Wed Nov 19th and Thurs Nov 20th) and comprised two representatives from each of the seven regional Recreational Fishing Forums as well as two members of the Amateur Fishing Ministerial Advisory Committee.

The intent of the National Recreational Meeting is to improve the recreational sector’s participation in fisheries management issues. It does this by:

• providing for inter-forum interaction and networking, thereby increasing information sharing and capacity building in recreational sector;
• providing a forum to discuss/workshop issues raised by members in regional forums that are relevant nationally;
• providing a forum to discuss/workshop MFish ideas/proposals relevant to recreational fishers nationally;
• enhancing MFish’s understanding of recreational fisheries management issues;
• enhancing effectiveness of forums; and
• facilitating consistency among forums

Meeting Agenda:

This year’s agenda items were suggested by the forums themselves. The agenda outlines all the sessions planned for this year’s meeting.

 Download Meeting Agenda (PDF 188KB)

Meeting Notes:

The notes from this year’s meeting and discussions.

 Download Meeting Notes (PDF 151KB)

Presentations:

A variety of presentations were given at this year’s meeting.

 20/30 vision (PDF 25KB)

 Consultation (PDF 980KB)
Please note: This is a large file and may take some time to download.

 Spearfishing Presentation (Advocacy) (PDF 103KB)

 Local Area Management 1 (PDF 412KB)

 Local Area Management 2 (PDF 92KB)

 Estimating Recreational Catch (PDF 1.63MB)
Please note: This is a large file and may take some time to download.

 Choice Modelling (PDF 993KB)
Please note: This is a large file and may take some time to download.

 A report on the Australian RecFish meeting (PDF 522KB)

Meeting Host:

John Taunton Clark, Inshore Fisheries Manager, North East Inshore Team, Auckland john.taunton-clark@fish.govt.nz

Meeting Organisers:

Andy Warmbrunn, Fisheries Analyst, Auckland andrew.warmbrunn@fish.govt.nz

Celina Garcia, Fisheries Analyst, Auckland celina.garcia@fish.govt.nz