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The animal itself is worthy of respect, says NZ longline skipper Michael ‘Smithy’ Smith, but it’s his job to catch it, and he loves the work. “In a perfect world, maybe we shouldn’t be hunting the apex predators… but it’s a good living, and it’s a good clean fishery. I certainly don’t want to drive any species to extinction. That’s not logical. You want them to survive.”
It’s hard to judge a fishery over just seven years, Smithy acknowledges, but it looks healthy enough to him. “From what I see, there’s no shortage of tuna around where we work. But I don’t know what goes on overseas.”
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 170 July August 2021.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/billion-dollar-fish/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2021.
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The animal itself is worthy of respect, says NZ longline skipper Michael ‘Smithy’ Smith, but it’s his job to catch it, and he loves the work. “In a perfect world, maybe we shouldn’t be hunting the apex predators… but it’s a good living, and it’s a good clean fishery. I certainly don’t want to drive any species to extinction. That’s not logical. You want them to survive.”<br /> It’s hard to judge a fishery over just seven years, Smithy acknowledges, but it looks healthy enough to him. “From what I see, there’s no shortage of tuna around where we work. But I don’t know what goes on overseas.”<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 170 July August 2021.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/billion-dollar-fish/<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2021.<br /> Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.