Calling time on a challenging year
Friday 11 December 2020
While many in the seafood industry remain busy all through the festive season, the last Update of the year is a good time to reflect on the...
Industry focuses on recruitment
Friday 4 December 2020
It is often said that a good crisis should not be wasted.
Pregnant women now able to eat more fish species...
Thursday 3 December 2020
Research conducted by New Zealand Food Safety into the mercury levels of fish species has allowed the advice to pregnant woman to be updated and the...
The China export game - how NZ's largest market...
Friday 27 November 2020
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has just released analysis of New Zealand’s seafood exports into China during the upheaval of COVID-19 and it...
Wider oceans policy adopted by National as well
Friday 13 November 2020
This week the National Party named Tim van de Molen as the new Fisheries Spokesman. And like Labour a few weeks ago, has changed the name of the...
Oceans and Fisheries - what the new portfolio...
Friday 6 November 2020
Labour’s landslide election victory gave them a strong mandate to govern alone, which they have chosen to do, leaving the Greens outside of Cabinet.
Plastics - part of the problem and one we must...
Friday 30 October 2020
A report this week out of South Africa presented a very different take on ocean pollution.