Sea sausage: Kiwi fishers create innovative bait

Sea sausage: Kiwi fishers create innovative bait

By Gianina Schwanecke of RNZ It is not only humans who consider cray delicious, it is also a favourite of rig (aka lemon fish). Now, a new crayfish bait type...

Kiwi fishers turn crayfish waste into dolphin-safe rig bait

The need to keep dolphins safe has motivated a group of New Plymouth commercial fishermen to invent a new type of bait from waste products.  Fishers Keith Mawson from Egmont Seafoods and Rob Ansley from Ocean Pearl Fisheries, pictured above, have worked with Massey University scientist Jerome Chua to develop a sausage-like bait. The Fiordland Lobster Company supplied the “sea sausage” ingredient made from 100% crayfish waste. “The sausages are t…