Minister goes down to the line on legally contested fish quotas

Minister Shane Jones has met with the Waitangi fisheries commission in a last-ditch bid to resolve a legal standoff over big changes to commercial catch allowances.
The Thursday evening meeting with Te Ohu Kaimoana came ahead of his anticipated announcement, on Sunday, of a big increase to allowable commercial catches in the contentious and lucrative snapper fishery off the west coast of the North Island.