Mana moana, mana tangata Testimonies on depletion and ...

Interviewee #19 –they put in safety rails and stuff and there’s 20 or 30 people along there and the rest
along the beaches.
Interviewer #1 – What are they catching?
Interviewee #19 – Kahawai mainly, along the beaches further you get the odd snapper and what I like
about it is they’re all getting a kai, they’re all getting a kai.
Interviewer #1 – It’s about getting a kai isn’t it?
Interviewee #19 – Yeah, that’s the bottom line, get a kai. You got the whitebaiters working at the
moment ... you’ll go down there now ... people will stay there all night fishing, all night and yeah, they’ll
take home a kai, you know, whether it’s a half a dozen kahawai or a dozen. At least they’re taking it
back for other people and I haven’t heard of any of them selling it
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people collect kina year round in New Zealand, but in fact, they’re fattest at a particular time in the year
and that’s when would be the normal time to gather kina, but ... everyone just expects to go and access
it, you know, 24/7 – Interviewee #20
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Interviewee #30 - amateur fishermen and that you know, as a sport people do, it’s a sport. It’s their way
of life. It’s their kai because you know, 20 kahawai, but when they’re running you know, you might get
bloody three or four times that much …
Interviewee #29 – That’s common sense stuff.
Interviewer #1 – It totally is, yeah
Interviewee #30 – That’s our way of life, yeah.
Interviewer #1 – It’s not a sport. It’s actually survival-
Interviewee #29 – Our livelihood, yeah
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