Media Report 08/06/2017

Two rescues in one night for North Coastguard

Source: The Northern Advocate – Local News
Date Published: 08/06/2017
Matched on: fishing, fishing vessel

Northland Coastguard volunteers exchanged the comfort of their homes to head out to two on-water medical rescues on a wet and cold night.At 11.27pm on Tuesday Coastguard’s Operations Centre was contacted by St John requesting assistance…

Call for curb on waste dumping by Pacific fishing fleets

Source: Radio New Zealand News Headlines
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: fishing, fisheries, fishing vessels

The Pacific’s environmental agency chief has called for a curb on the dumping of waste by fishing vessels in the region.

Fishing lines killing hundreds of seabirds

Source: Radio New Zealand News Headlines
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: fishing, fishing industry

More than 1000 albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters are estimated to have been killed in fishing lines off the New Zealand coast last year.

Sanford owns infected Stewart Island oyster farm

Source: Radio New Zealand – All Programmes
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: Sanford’s, Sanford

Sanford owns one of the infected oyster farms. Sanford’s Chief Operations Officer Greg Johansson joins Checkpoint live.

Bluff oyster industry under threat

Source: Radio New Zealand – All Programmes
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: Bluff oysters

The famous Bluff oysters are under threat from a parasite that’s been found at Stewart Island. Geoff Gwyn, MPI’s Readiness and Response Director, talks to John Campbell.

Bluff oyster fishermen urge action to keep parasite at bay

Source: Radio New Zealand News Headlines
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: fishing company, quota AND fishing, fishing, fishing company, fishermen, Sanford

Bluff oyster fishermen are demanding that all farmed oysters in a Stewart Island bay be pulled up out of the sea as soon as possible to keep a lethal parasite at bay.

Stewart Island waters ‘in lockdown’ until MPI announcement

Source: Stuff.co.nz – National
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: shellfish, fish, fisheries, aquaculture

Stewart Island oyster farms in lockdown risk deadly infection if the Ministry for Primary Industries doesn’t act, Southland leaders say. 

Seven questions about the oyster parasite Bonamia ostreae

Source: Stuff.co.nz – Business
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: fish, seafood, seafood AND new zealand, fisheries, marine AND environment, Greenshell mussels, Bluff oysters

EXPLAINER: Death, disease, loss of income, fisheries lost, MPI on the case, mayors involved.

Family trust granted leave to appeal Marlborough Sounds mussel farm decision

Source: Marlborough Express
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: King Salmon, Salmon

A legal battle over a mussel farm in the Marlborough Sounds is set to continue in the Court of Appeal, three years after the applicant first lodged a consent application.

Foodstuffs to stop stocking microbead products

Source: Stuff.co.nz – Stuff
Date Published: 08/06/2017
Matched on: marine AND environmental

Foodstuffs has pledged that New World, Pak’n Save and Four Square stores will be microbead-free from July 1.

Consent applicants to consult iwi groups

Source: Scoop NZ – Regional
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: marine title, marine AND environment

Environment Southland has been notified of four iwi groups that have applied to the High Court for Customary Marine Title for areas of Southland’s coast. The Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011 provides a legal framework for iwi, hapu…