snapper

My email inbox is bombarded daily by vigilant army readers sending in Herald Bombs from the “decent journalists, trained and skilled“.

I now have to filter them…like this one where their fish identification skills have dramatically failed them.

In order to assit them I have provided a link to the Wiki pages for Snapper and for Kingfish.

It really is becoming an embarrassment. I’ll bet there is now a race on each day to fix the fuck ups before I obtain screen shots. It isn’t working I have more than I can manage…I am now simply picking the worst ones.  Read more »

The Board of Auckland Transport meets today to decide the fate of the troubled ticketing project.

It looks as though Snapper will be offered a few million in compensation to exit the situation – and to avoid prolonged and messy legal action.  The end result will be a delay of a few more months (how many times have Aucklanders heard that?) but a functioning system should be in place (without Snapper) mid next year.

Sounds like this is the solution that should have been implemented from the start.  Joyce (as then Transport Minister) and English should have kept out of it rather than play favours to a Wellington-based company.   And exactly what was Mark Ford doing to allow this mess to continue for so long?

My mate went for a fish yesterday. There were 10 on the boat and there are 70 snapper in that picture. The size limit for Snapper is 27cm but on this boat none are taken less than 30cm. None of these fish are less than 33cm.

After taking the picture another 11 fish of similar size were taken.

My mates went fishing two weeks ago up at Great Barrier Island. This fish was taken at Marcus’ Spot-X “The Supermarket”.

This is the video of Steven landing a 17 pound snapper.