Principally this involves reflagging
FCVs to New Zealand, increasing official observer coverage and extending their powers to cover crew employment, health and safety, and vessel pollution matters. Additionally, as vessel operators are subject to licencing, social responsibility obligations are becoming a condition of obtaining and retaining a fishing licence. However, the legislation has yet to be enacted and only,time will tell if these policy interventions are effective. Ultimately, until ‘this most evil of exploitation’ [47] is eliminated from New Zealand's waters, New Zealand cannot claim to have a world leading fisheries management regime.