Recreational fishers may soon be forced to keep all their catch, no matter the size, until they reach their limit for the day.
It's one of a raft of suggestions from a major new report on how to preserve our recreational fisheries.
Snapper are New Zealand's favourite fish, with Kiwi fishers hauling in thousands of tonnes every year.
The authors of the report want a shake up of recreational fishing so that fisheries will be around for the next generation.
But Scott Macindoe from fishing advocacy group Legasea isn't a fan of the report, and says it's "the end of the road for recreational fishing as we know it".
One suggestion raised in the New Zealand Initiative report is for fishers to keep their entire catch, doing away with minimum legal sizes, until they reach daily quota limits.
Even when a small fish is caught, it's unlikely to survive even if if it's released.
Report author Dr Randall Bess is calling for a peak recreational fishing body to help make and influence policy.
"The whole purpose of this type of peak body is to have a voice to the Minister and to the new Ministry of Fisheries and the other fishing sectors so that they can work through the problems," he said.
But that costs money, with the report also suggesting a number of funding options, including required registration fees for boats or trailers.
Mr Macindoe from Legasea says any new body would be another unnecessary cog in the machine, and a "very expensive bureaucracy".
He is rubbishing the report, saying that the status quo is more than fit for purpose.
While Legasea dismissed the report - Dr Randall Bess says Legasea itself has done to little to help the industry and that the group's been confrontational and divisive.
The new Fisheries Minister in the middle of all this is Stuart Nash and he's yet to comment
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