MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
New Zealand gets tough on working conditions for crews on board foreign chartered fishing vessels
A fisheries amendment bill that has passed its second reading in Parliament sets that fishing companies can use foreign charter vessels only if they are flying the New Zealand flag and obey New Zealand laws. The legislation came from a ministerial inquiry led by minister Paul Swain, following serious allegations of mistreatment of crew on foreign chartered vessels. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBottom line: The Maori's are to lazy or busy fighting at the pub to go fishing , so hire Asian's to do the work. ( It gives the hori's more drinking time or to protest to the government).
Apr 17th, 2014 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Maori's should get any special treatment from the government, but of course they get everything handed to them on a plate and still manage to screw it up.
Best thing the NZ government could do is ship them and they rusted out Korean boats to some deserted $hithole like the Falklands.
Well someone has never been to New Zealand.
Apr 17th, 2014 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sad comment #1, generalisations don't make you look smart. Not sure which iwi own which fishing companies but they do need to operate within the law of the land which will change their business model. It is my opinion that the NZ Government has rightly attempted to recompense iwis for historical injustices with settlements, and many have done rather well. Hand up rather than a hand out, that is great kudos for New Zealand of which Maori are an integral part. New Zealand as a whole has benefited.
Apr 18th, 2014 - 04:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Klingon,
Apr 18th, 2014 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0You need deporting to Argentina,
oh, you're there already.
figures
@2 Well I've been there... and other places as well.... I find it rather sad that they are exploiting third world fishermen 'Nevertheless, the Maori Affairs Minister, Pita Sharples, warns the Government will drive iwi fishing operators out of business by banning them from using foreign boats with low-wage crews.'
Apr 18th, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mind you the last time an iwi outfit ... Sealord.. was in the news they had just had their fingers rather badly burnt by doing business with the RGs
@2 20 years in NZ enough?
Apr 18th, 2014 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As usual it is the Maori's wanting special treatment. They could run a piss up in a brewery.
I am not sure why this is in a South Atlantic news agency.
You spent 20 years in NZ and then went back to Argentina?
Apr 18th, 2014 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahahahahaha
@ & You prefer to suck a d*ck over pussy??
Apr 19th, 2014 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0JAJAJAJA
@Strangely, both Britain and, latterly, New Zealand has recognised that the Maori have AT LEAST as much right to New Zealand as the later European immigrants. And they have the right to exist and live their lives in accordance with their own culture and wishes. What a pity that the spanish imperial colonialists of latam couldn't manage the same!
Apr 19th, 2014 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Klingon
Apr 20th, 2014 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“@ & You prefer to suck a d*ck over pussy??
JAJAJAJA”
No I don't.
I prefer it INSTEAD of. But thank you for taking notice.
Anyway 20 years would have given you citizenship or at least residency. To both NZ and Oz.
Hope you kept it.
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