date:Nov 19, 2013
n covertly monitoring the Newfish II 4363 activities for a two month period, codenamed Operation Waterfowl, says Brendon Mikkelsen, Waikato/Bay of Plenty Compliance Manager.
MPI estimates 13 tonnes of catch, (primarily snapper) had been disposed of on the black-market to outlets at Tauranga, Hamilton and Auckland.
Operation Waterfowl detected offenders in every link of the black-market chain: commercial fisher, truck drivers, first receiver, onto second receivers of the illegal fish, including