The Government must have rocks in its head if it thinks it can cut recreational snapper quota and not correspondingly reduce the commercial and customary take. For too long there has been two standards of fisher: those who conserve and are responsible; then those who, because of an attitude of race superiority, believe they can take more fish than the rest. These sorts of imbalances in our society must stop or there will never be racial harmony in this country.
If fish are in short supply, everyone must make a sacrifice. It is every person's right to catch enough to feed the family. The commercial take should be the last considered. Look after the ordinary citizens first and equally, then apportion any surplus to commercial interests. Fishers, if you care about our precious resource, vote out these politicians pandering to a select group. They want to erode our birthright to fish freely and equally.

R. Shaw, Otumoetai.