Shane Jones hits back at Northland critics over marlin rules and fishing reforms
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has accused opponents of proposed marine reforms of “catastrophising” the changes.
Critics, including television fishing personality and Northlander Matt Watson, say the changes could reshape New Zealand’s marine management and threaten the country’s world-class big game fishing industry on which Northland economies rely.
Public submissions on Fisheries NZ’s (FNZ) 19 proposed regulatory amendments closed on November 28, drawing more than 22,000 responses and sparking LegaSea’s huge One Ocean protest in Auckland.
Among the most contentious changes were:
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- Allowing commercial fishers to keep and sell dead marlin.
- Removing protections for 19 reef fish species, including red moki, boarfish, and red pigfish.
- Easing gear restrictions such as set-net lengths and Danish seine limits.
- Recreational fishing bans in parts of the Hauraki Gulf where commercial fishing remains permitted.
Watson claimed those were only some of the changes with many more concerning ones still to come.
He has used his popular online platforms to warn the reforms are “being forced through on us” and are “only pro-industry”.
Watson said in designing the reforms, Jones had stood shoulder to shoulder with fisheries companies and failed to consult with environmentalists or recreational fishers.
There was nothing to address big issues such as quota management or habitat destruction, he said.
The Jonesy is a whore for the Fishing Industry and he is blaming recreational fishers for depletion of stock when it is his masters at the Fishing Industry who are actually doing that.
Look, threatening Recreational Fishermen may well be the dumbest thing Shane has ever done!
Jonesy, Jonesy, Jonesy.
These are Recreational Fishermen who love Fish so much, they are an association!
Do you have ANY idea how passionate a NZ Bloke needs to be to join a fucking association?
We are so laid back as a culture, we are almost horizontal, men willingly joining together to be an association is as close as we get to an active militia.
These aren’t migrant MPs you are shitting on Shane.
These aren’t Environmentalists you are degrading Shane.
These aren’t the nephs you are threatening to get off the couch Jonesy Boy, these are NZ Recreational Fishermen and they are as close to ISIS as we get in New Zealand.
You are threatening them, champ?
You are calling them out?
You are attempting to intimidate them are you?
You who are a pimp for the Commercial Fishing Industry, an Industry that donates so much to NZ First and you?
You are trying to bully actual NZ Blokes who love the ocean and love fishing?
Oh Jonesy, you’ve been sitting on that nice Green Leather too long Jonesy.
They’ll tear you apart love.
Yo, recreational fishermen, the Jonesy has decided to respond to your legitimate concerns about him giving to the Fishing Industry while taking from you and your ability to feed your family and whanau with threats.
He’s calling yo mommas fat and that she can’t catch no fish.
Just saying.
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Shame Jones is a fucken disgrace him & Tama Potaka are brown bootlicking kupapa
Happy to anytime have contest of wits, fitness and command of the English language with this traitorous scab who sold out his own people for the love of the white man’s mine scab dollar.
If the blubber onanist needs 40 words to say fuck all in a word explosion of nothingness I, guarantee, I can beat that in a few four letter words.
Televise it on any channel and we’ll end that fucktard once and for all.
Fucken Shane Jones.