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The prospect of just the second increase in 20 years to the commercial snapper take off the west coast is being welcomed, as one might expect, by the fishing industry.
This month’s proposed increase is not just to snapper, and it’s not just in the big area known as SNA8 – but several things smack together like the big waves of the Tasman Sea to make this particular fishery particularly significant.