Commercial Fishing's Dirty Secret | Extreme Waste, Destruction & One Man's Fight to Make a Difference — Dallas Abel

🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️ · Apr 13, 2026 · 1h 4m

Dallas Abel grew up in Port Douglas, Far North Queensland —fishing, diving and hunting every chance he got. That coastal upbringing sparked a lifelong curiosity about the ocean that took him all the way through a marine science degree, into aquaculture, reef education, and eventually a role as a fisheries observer for MPI right here in New Zealand.

In this episode, Dallas pulls back the curtain on what lifeas a fisheries observer actually looks like — including some of the confronting realities of commercial fishing at scale that most recreational fishers never see.

He breaks down ocean…