schooling. I regularly practice pumping, man overboard drill,
knots etc as part of this.
If by chance there is an oil spill on the Lake we have spill kits
to control this and it then falls on the Waikato Regional Council
to rectify the problem. My boat, along with the Harbourmaster���s,
would aid in this.
I phoned to query the charges and this was met by a very
negative response and it appeared that no one had any answers
to give me.
I await your feedback.
Larry Palmer, Taupo
MARITIME NZ A JOKE
Dear Sir
I am sending you a ropy of the letter sent to Maritime New
Zealand on September 3, 2012.
No response whatever from Maritime NZ.
They have also wrongly dated my LLO ticket which cut it
short by twelve months. No new ticket sent although I was
promised they would.
My boat Tunza Salvage, was updated for coastal work between
Tauranga and East Cape. I sent paper work and letters at the
same time three years ago proving my sea hours in that vicinity.
Tunza Salvage was upgraded. I never received an upgrade on
my ticket. Maritime New Zealand say they never received paper
work for my ticket.
I have been dicked around so much by Maritime NZ that I am
removing my boat from SSM and will not be renewing my ticket
next year. The stress dealing with these people has beaten me.
No response to phone calls, letters, they are a joke. I believe
180 staff in Wellington. Now, I could not run my business like
this, I would be broke.
Larry Palmer, Taupo
Dear Sir
I would like to congratulate publically, those people who
would like to ban marlin meat sales in New Zealand, even if
taken outside of our Economic Zone.
I read with disgust a letter to the editor (of a fishing magazine)
that a commercial boat who had fished at the wonderful
Wanganella Banks just outside of our EEZ, and unloaded 51
marlin for sale in the far north. This is absolute BS after all the
work that has been undertaken in tagging, research, releasing this
wonderful game fish, that is pretty well the last large game fish
we have in any quantity, to enjoy to catch as game fishers. The
commercial moratorium on billfish is being abused here.
If there was ever a similar heap of BS, it is the new
commercial proposal to sell undersized rock lobsters in New
Zealand shops. And at the same time we recreational fishers
get fined if we took a single cray of the same size and was
caught landing it. I cant believe that this Ministry of Primary
Industries even entertains this as an option at the National
Rock Lobster Management Group meetings that commercial
propose! I���m bloody furious with this government department,
a pack of office pen pushers who probably never caught a fish
in their lives and who treat the public as idiots who are easy
meat to dictate to.
I would like those advocacy groups to also go for banning the
sale of undersized ���concession��� crays in New Zealand shops.
The public can have the last say and do that with your wallets ���
don���t buy those undersized crays in the shops and our message
would be clear. Like this, poachers and ���make believe��� Maori
VIP.S91
UNDERSIZED/OVERSIZED..? BS!
January/February 2013 Professional Skipper 5
