Balanced News: Lure of free kaimoana driving up drowning statistics – experts

As the cost of living bites, more people are fishing and diving in dangerous conditions to put food on the table. The organisation’s figures showed so far, drowning deaths were up on this time last year – 75, versus 80 last year. “So, people are going rock fishing on days when no one should be on those rocks, because they need to put some food on the table.”