The Update

Why should we care about sustainability? It is expensive, difficult and sometimes hard to understand. This week’s The Update looks at what we’re up…

New Zealand’s seafood sector is worth around NZD$2B in export receipts every year. That makes us a key part of the primary sector, but our…

Earlier this year we provided a submission on a petition put forward by Our Seas Our Future, calling for Government to establish 30 percent of New…

An indicator of a good conference is that you come away from it with food for thought, both from the sessions and from the connections you make with…

Last Friday, after reading an opinion piece in The Herald, Lisa Futschek felt compelled to write her first op-ed as Chief Executive of Seafood New…

Zak Olsen is a former commercial skipper turned Quota and Supply Systems/Harvest Planner for Moana New Zealand.

You know Seafood NZ is a bit short on…

This year, our Conference coincides with the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Over more than two weeks in the French capital, around 10,000 athletes will…

Rosa Edwards, Seafood NZ’s Inshore Protected Species Programme Lead, participated in an international working group to further explore better bycatch…

In our industry there is no such thing as snap decisions...just snapper decisions. And right now, there are big decisions being made – whether to…

This slightly shorter edition of The Update is coming to you earlier this week because tomorrow Aotearoa New Zealand celebrates the rising of the…

Over the past week there has been a fluttering of media activity around new fishing rules intended to help reduce seabird captures. From 1 October,…

New Seafood New Zealand CEO Lisa Futschek has only just got her feet under the desk, but she already has thoughts about the industry.

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