Media Report 15/05/2017

Ngapuhi descendants call for commercial fishing ban in Hokianga Harbour

Source: Maori TV – Latest news
Date Published: 14/05/2017
Matched on: fish, fishing, fishing AND sustainability, fishing ban, fishing industry

Ngapuhi descendants are proposing a fishing ban after commercial fishing practices have sparked apprehension for sustainability in the Hokianga. The focus of the ban is marine conservation and sustainability for generations to come. 

Lobster Fishing Families Call for Fair Go

Source: Scoop NZ – Business
Date Published: 12/05/2017
Matched on: rock lobster, quota AND fishing, fish, fishing, fisheries, Fisherman, fishermen, fishing industry

Rock lobster fisherman Sam Wood is 33 Years old. Based at Whitianga, Sam is a third-generation commercial fisherman. Like his father and grandfather before him, Sam fishes in the CRA 2 management area which extends from Te Arai Point to East Cape.

Kono CEO to co-lead delegation during trade mission to Japan

Source: Scoop NZ – Business
Date Published: 12/05/2017
Matched on: marine farms, sustainable seafood, seafood, seafood AND new zealand, marine AND environments, seafood AND sustainability

Rachel Taulelei (Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Rarua, Ngati Koata), CEO – Kono NZ LP (Kono) will be co-leading, with Sir Graham Harrison, the business delegation during New Zealand Prime Minster Bill English’s trade mission to Japan, from 16-18 May.

OPINION: What future the magnificent Marlborough Sounds?

Source: Marlborough Express
Date Published: 12/05/2017
Matched on: fish, aquaculture, salmon farms, King Salmon, Salmon

OPINION: The future of the beautiful and unique Marlborough Sounds is under threat again from industrialisation. The “relocation” of six unprofitable and environmentally unsustainable salmon farms from hidden bays to prominent marine thoroughfares, in the wildest and most beautiful parts of the Sounds…

Salmon stoush exposes RMA loophole

Source: Radio New Zealand – Nine To Noon
Date Published: 12/05/2017
Matched on: salmon farms, King Salmon, Salmon

Kathryn Ryan talks to MPI’s Luke Southorn and Gary Taylor from the Environmental Defence Society about a decision by the Ministry for Primary Industries to support King Salmon’s bid to construct five new salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds.

Population of whales off Dunedin coast significant, study finds

Source: Otago Daily Times: Dunedin
Date Published: 15/05/2017
Matched on: dolphins, fishing, fishermen

Dunedin’s claim as the wildlife capital of New Zealand has been boosted after researchers found it is home to a whale population second only in significance to Kaikoura’s.

Oceans are at the ‘edge’ of losing all oxygen

Source: New Zealand Herald – World News
Date Published: 13/05/2017
Matched on: marine AND environment

The world’s oceans close to being starved of oxygen – and even that could lead to mass sea life extinction which could last a million years.University of Exeter scientists fear the modern ocean is ‘on the edge of anoxia’…