Maui's Dolphin

Agenda Set.
I have read with great interest the debate over the governments proposed Threat Management Plan to protect the extremely rare Maui's Dolphin. By proposing to ban all set-net fishing around the Taranaki coast. Based on misinformation from strong lobby groups that Maui's Dolphin's habitat is also around the Taranaki coast, when it is obviously not. The result of doing so would have dire consequence on our already endangered spices the Taranaki local commercial fisherman. Who have fished these waters all their lives, and have not in that time came across seen or caught in their nets a Maui's Dolphin, other than one found in the stomach of a visiting caught Great White shark. This leads me to believe that this ill-conceived plan is about politics's and not fact. That the agenda is already set in place, and the so called consultation and submission process just a formality, as they are with the NPDC. The views of those involved the few Taranaki Fisherman sweeped aside for a already in place overriding central political agenda. That is why the two local party MPs won't get drawn into this issue. Because it may damage their and their parties standing, so close to an a election. This is why we need an independent MP that stands up for the region's local concerns and businesses, and is not influenced by national political agenda's and party politics's.

Rusty Kane NZ