The Update

It's been a tough week for news related to commercial, and it hasn’t felt like a fair one for those who are across the facts related to two stories –…

Sixteen months ago, New Zealand seafood producers faced an immediate ban on exports of nine species of fish to the United States. The ban was a result…

It’s been a warm and pleasant summer for most of New Zealand, but do you remember how different it felt this time last year?

I write this just having returned from "Seafood Saturday" in Nelson. An event that celebrates all things seafood. Obviously seafood is a very large…

You might think we go on a bit about science here at Seafood NZ but it's critical to what we do.

Science helps us to show the power and potential of…

Maintaining the health, safety and wellbeing of the people in the commercial fishing industry is a top priority here in Aotearoa and has been for some…

There has been a lot of opinions shared of late about new Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Shane Jones – he’s too close to industry, he’s…

This week for The Update, we are handing over the reins to a fisher – Nathan Hines from Timaru who fishes solo in the mixed fishery in the Canterbury…

This is our first Update for 2024 and while it may officially be too late to say Happy New Year, we do hope your year has got off to a good start. The…

Welcome to the last Update of 2023. What a year! If we thought that things would return to normal after the Covid years, we may have spoken too soon.

When the previous Government announced its intentions to drastically restrict commercial fishing in the Hauraki Gulf (Tīkapa Moana /Te…

Over 25 million ocean temperature measurements later, fishers who participated in the Moana Project have overwhelmingly approved making their data…