Or conversely you might ask why three esteemed universities. The Fisheries Centre at British Columbia University, Oxford University and Auckland University would make it all up.

Why would a team of academics from well regarded academic institutions, put there careers on the line, threaten there personal integrity or even waste there time with such a report.

Of course, its all lies, You can trust the Government, with its National party president Mr Sandford, along with an underfunded, incompetent Ministry who takes it's assessment statistics from catches numbers supplied by THE COMMERCIAL FISHING INDUSTRY and Niwa scientists who based there back up assessment research on guestimmates examining fisheries in 25% of the country. How could they be wrong.

And why on earth would MPI ignore criminal activity. Doesn't happen in Hawkes Bay. Now how many convictions reported in the News paper for one company. 97????? and there still operating. If you have even half a brain, you should be able to answer that question.