A nice looking fish. You can see why, low breeders and small habitat. I would never target a species like that, ever. The shark population down under and here in NZ is huge. They are widespread around the coasts with big chompers down south and in my area. Our main fish which everyone targets is Snapper, in a place called the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland is about 100miles square and they've been doing studies and ocean work in that area and found that 30 million of that species were in that area alone and everyone targets Snapper. Its when people start overfishing and exceeding their limit and wasting fish (catching undersized babies) that numbers recline. We have a pretty strict fisheries office down here which is great, like most places do.
