Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy is copping criticism over his handling of the illegal fish dumping saga.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has confirmed it will investigate after copies of its 2013 preliminary report exposed widespread fish dumping.
LegaSea spokesperson, Richard Baker, believes Minister Guy has been caught napping.
"He's been largely absent this last week and it’s his ministry. They're very definitely under siege and we do not believe that they should be organising this independent review."
Mr Baker says MPI can't be trusted to set the boundaries of the review and that Mr Guy has been in damage control all week.
"It's a credibility issue; there has been a huge amount of credibility lost over the last week."
The report showed that between 20 and 100 percent of fish quotas were being thrown overboard.
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