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Before he was a longliner, Adam Kellian was a crayfisher, making all his own pots. When he started, leasing cray quota cost $12 a kilo. By his last year, he was paying $42 a kilo to lease the quota and making $32. “That’s a big part of the reason why I got out of it. The quota held more value than the actual fish itself. It just seemed so ridiculous, on top of all the vandalism, and the theft, and abuse I would get out on the water as a crayfisherman.” When crays were stolen from his pots, he still had to pay the quota owner, though he made no profit.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 160 November - December 2019.
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THE PRICE OF FISH
Before he was a longliner, Adam Kellian was a crayfisher, making all his own pots. When he started, leasing cray quota cost $12 a kilo. By his last year, he was paying $42 a kilo to lease the quota and making $32. “That’s a big part of the reason why I got out of it. The quota held more value than the actual fish itself. It just seemed so ridiculous, on top of all the vandalism, and the theft, and abuse I would get out on the water as a crayfisherman.” When crays were stolen from his pots, he still had to pay the quota owner, though he made no profit.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 160 November - December 2019.<br /> Read the full story: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-price-of-fish/?