This week, Seafood New Zealand had to make a rare call to the nation’s media to clarify assumptions...
The 2021 seafood industry conference programme covers two full days in August and has a clear focus...
The much anticipated reform of the Resource Management Act is underway, with Environment Minister...
On Tuesday, when the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, David Parker announced the long-flagged...
Advocates of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a tool to rectify kina barrens are quick to blame...
Last week’s Federation of Commercial Fishermen’s conference was remarkable for a number of reasons,...
Government changes to reduce migrant workers in favour of New Zealanders are going to be extremely...
There has never been a better time for collaborating with other primary industries.
When the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake struck at midnight on November 14, 2016, the damage to the paua...
Every year, a global communications entity called Edelman do a worldwide research project on who...
The latest Status of our Fish Stocks, as assessed annually by the Ministry for Primary Industries...
With misinformation on seafood at an all-time high right now, it is more important than ever to...
Seafood New Zealand spent last week on Rakiura/Stewart Island.
Two years after coming into force, New Zealand has opened consultation on future membership of the...
If the number of applications for rahui being processed since the end of lockdown are anything to...
The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Dame Juliet Gerrard, this week completed a substantial...
Seafood New Zealand chief executive Dr Jeremy Helson has welcomed a report into New Zealand’s...
The Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, David Parker, when questioned in the House last week on...
Cuisine magazine has devoted most of its March edition to a celebration of New Zealand seafood, and...
A small family fishing company has self-reported the capture of 18 endangered black petrels and two...
Education is on the minds of industry, the government, and multiple agencies right now and being...
This week’s Update is republished with permission from the Sustainable Fisheries website from the...
New Zealand Story has just released a comprehensive report on how the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted...
The clock is ticking on a lifeline for the seafood industry in a COVID-19 world.
In the midst of last year’s COVID-19 pandemic, the government threw the seafood industry a lifeline...
A major paper on fisheries management has just been released by researchers at the University of...
While many in the seafood industry remain busy all through the festive season, the last Update of...
It is often said that a good crisis should not be wasted.
Research conducted by New Zealand Food Safety into the mercury levels of fish species has allowed...
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has just released analysis of New Zealand’s seafood exports...
In short, not well.
This week the National Party named Tim van de Molen as the new Fisheries Spokesman. And like Labour...
Labour’s landslide election victory gave them a strong mandate to govern alone, which they have...
A report this week out of South Africa presented a very different take on ocean pollution.
Sometime in the coming months we expect the matter of marine protection will be at the forefront as...
A few days ago, two economists at Stanford University in California won the Nobel Prize for...
In one of the light moments, okay the only light moment, of the second televised political leaders’...
Cawthron Institute’s announcement yesterday that they have been awarded $3 million to investigate...
As New Zealand dealt with COVID-19, the seafood industry continued to provide the country with...
Cabinet’s decision this week to allow foreign fishing crew to enter New Zealand was a huge relief...
Four long years on from the Kaikoura earthquake, discussions are beginning on the reopening of the...
The New Zealand seafood industry has just endured another week of mainstream media criticism.
They’ve got a few problems over the ditch getting Aussies to eat home-grown seafood.
The scientific journal Nature last week published research into the potential of seafood to feed...
During the first lockdown, the fishing industry ratcheted up its philanthropy, with many companies...
Fishers, farmers, growers and the construction industry are in a worker crisis.
They’re taking mental health seriously in the Australian fishing industry and in New Zealand there...
The big winner at last night’s Seafood Sustainability Awards was a man who has spent almost 20...
At a time when the QMS seems to be under increasing scrutiny by ill-informed critics there is...
The launch today of the Ministry for Primary Industries’ (MPI) new website on jobs is welcomed by...
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