The Ministry for Primary Industries is holding three information sessions in Otago and Southland next month about creating the strategy.
A MPI spokesman said the meetings were to get input from the public to help create the framework.
Oamaru fisherman David Quinn said if the Government did not take action, Otago would end up like other areas where fishers faced tighter restrictions.
''Why do people have to go and catch [the limit] 30 cod? It's too much. It's absolutely crazy.''
He encouraged fishers to go to the public meetings even if they opposed the idea of a strategy because the Government needed to hear those views too.
Allan Anderson is a director of Karitane Charters and Tania Fishing Company Ltd and feels he understands the issue of sustainable fisheries from a commercial and amateur point of view.
He believes a strategy is needed as the Otago blue cod fishery is under strain from an influx of amateur fishers. Pollution and sediment from rivers is also playing havoc with the blue cod habitat.
The number of amateur fishers was increasing year to year so the limit of 30 fish needed to change to match the increase, Mr Anderson said.
In the past at fishing competitions a winning blue cod was expected to weigh in at 4kg, but these days podium wins would be taken by fish weighing in about 2.5kg.
A ministry spokeswoman said the fish species often remained within 1km of home their entire lives.
''These characteristics, coupled with more and more people out there wanting to catch this popular fish, have the potential to put some local blue cod fisheries under pressure.
''One such place in Otago is Moeraki, where the local community have already raised concern with MPI about their blue cod population.''
