Hard questions needed on dolphin redress
Friday 3 July 2020
The Ministry for Primary Industries is beginning to reveal the extent of the ex-gratia payments to be made to fishers and licensed fish receivers...
The dolphin decision - a cost/benefit analysis
Friday 26 June 2020
It’s landed, and the fallout is just beginning.
Good fisheries management - the only solution to...
Friday 19 June 2020
The 2020 State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture report (SOFIA) has landed from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Building planes out of bananas, and other dumb...
Friday 12 June 2020
LegaSea’s Rescue Fish plan, released two weeks ago, is apparently the answer to ‘restoring fish stocks and revitalising New Zealand’s commercial...
Scientific integrity must be paramount in a fake...
Friday 5 June 2020
Many a beautiful theory has been killed by an ugly fact, so the saying goes, and a demonstration of that was witnessed this week when the work of one...
Fishing and the environment - it shouldn't be an...
Friday 29 May 2020
This week’s release of the National Plan of Action on seabirds was the result of three years of discussions between industry, eNGOs, Fisheries New...
Warming waters an increasing threat to the planet...
Friday 22 May 2020
The volume of chatter about the global environment has been temporarily turned down while the world deals with a more urgent and imminent virologic...
Forging into a new food frontier
Friday 15 May 2020
A report from KPMG recently provided a stark wake up call for food producers who believed that eventually, in some distant pandemic-free time, it...