Were any of my fellow fishers watching the ‘Breakfast' show on Tuesday morning,when the Minister for Decimated Fisheries and other mess ups held up a picture of a 30cm snapper because he couldn't catch a real one? Would you all agree?

He couldn't catch a real one and quite possibly never will in his snapper zone, where the only place he may find one is at Bellamy's thanks to his stewardship of our most precious national resource, our fishery.

I challenge the Minister to hold up a 25cm baby snapper on national television to show the country what he deems to be takeable by commercial enterprises (most of which is wasted). I further challenge the Minister to disclose the record of penalties and charges against commercial fishing companies compared to recreational fishermen. I suspect this would show us all how not to protect our fisheries.

I have no problem with the new rules of 30cm snapper and seven per day and most fishos feel the same way.

But let's target the real cause of our declining fisheries and that is decades of destruction and waste by commercial fishing, aided and abetted by politicians who would be challenged to recognise the difference between a hook, line or sinker.

K Molloy, Omokoroa.