The Update

With the inshore on-board camera rollout now well underway, the NZ Federation of Commercial Fishermen has partnered with the Seafood NZ Inshore…

People in Auckland, Waikato and beyond face a shrinking choice of seafood options at supermarkets, fish and chip shops and restaurants under Hauraki…

Fiona MacMillan is the newly appointed General Manager of Communications and Marketing at Seafood New Zealand. She was MC at the 2023 Seafood New…

In any industry, in order to lead you first have to be comfortable with listening.

It has been a huge week with the near-simultaneous launches of the Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan (ITP), the Hauraki Gulf Fisheries Plan, and…

Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles was awarded New Zealander of the Year in 2021 for her cut-through science communications during the information…

The Government’s consultation on catch limits for New Zealand’s largest orange roughy fishery has brought this deepsea fish into the spotlight again.

Fisheries New Zealand (FNZ) is currently reviewing feedback on proposed seabird mitigation measures for surface longliners (SLL). Much of the media’s…

This week MPI announced that on-board cameras delivered by Spark will go live on the first tranche of inshore fishing vessels on 1 August.

Listening to Radio New Zealand ‘The Panel’ members muse on the Hauraki Gulf, I noticed how the Gulf tends to be alluded to as a treasure, a jewel, and…

On 14 June, the University of Washington released substantial analysis casting further doubt on the Sala et al. 2021 study that was published in the…

The Ministry for Primary Industries yesterday launched its latest Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries (SOPI). The report notes that seafood…