The Update

Climate change, not fishing, is winning the most unpopular contest to be the biggest threat to the world’s marine ecosystems.

The AP recently struck a deal with the US-based Walton Family Foundation to ‘provide sunlight and accountability to change the seafood industry’.

This summer has delivered perfect weather, along with sobering examples of why it might be time for a firmer grip on a popular Kiwi pastime.

A recent paper proves fishing in New Zealand (along with Australia) is having little impact on the ocean floor.

In a rare move this month, a scientific paper was retracted by the highly regarded Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).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