The Update

In a rare move this month, a scientific paper was retracted by the highly regarded Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

A NIWA report has shown serious land-based effects to water quality in the Mahau Sound, in Marlborough’s Pelorus Sound.

Rollout of cameras for fisheries officers follows a shocking increase in violence against those attempting to police the theft of our kaimoana.

Work is being done on ‘coastal darkening’ and the University of Auckland is looking at the issue in the context of the Hauraki Gulf.

Ocean grabbing is where tracts of resource-rich marine environment is removed from commercial use and placed in a no-take marine reserve.

Governments globally have been subsidising fishing fleets for decades. For the past twenty years, talks have been going on to have them halted.

One in 10 of all militarised interstate disputes, which are conflicts just short of war, have been over the rights to fish in the world’s oceans.

Consultation by Fisheries New Zealand on recreational limits for finfish is welcomed, but suggest they go further.

It was heartening this to see academics reinforcing the New Zealand fishing industry’s stance, supported by science, that the cat borne disease…

Pam Williams, the founder of Wanganui Trawlers, which later became Wanganui Seafoods, passed away on October 5, aged 88.

After thousands of hours of collaborative work, the announcement that the Kaikōura pāua and kina fisheries will open in December is wonderful news.

Oceans and Fisheries Minister, David Parker, has announced the reviews of 15 fish stocks in the twice-yearly sustainability round.