Media Report 07/06/2017

Illegal paua and fish seized in Northland

Source: The Northern Advocate – Local News
Date Published: 07/06/2017
Matched on: shellfish, fish, seafood, fisheries, Fisherman, paua

Fishers landed trevally half the legal size on Whangarei Harbour while poachers took excess and undersized paua from the west coast. Ministry of Primary Industries officers have revealed the latest illegal catches around the region…

MPI report doubts trawler cameras enough for court

Source: Newshub – Latest News
Date Published: 06/06/2017
Matched on: fish, fishing, fisheries

MPI report doubts trawler cameras enough for court.

Leaked report shows public misled over snapper policing

Source: Scoop NZ – Politics
Date Published: 06/06/2017
Matched on: fishing companies, fish, fishing, fisheries, fishing industry

Leaked report shows public misled over snapper policing – Greenpeace. Tuesday, 6 June: A Government report leaked to Greenpeace shows the public is being misled over the effectiveness of video cameras used to police the fishing industry. 

Call for zero bycatch, 2016 a bad year for seabirds

Source: Scoop NZ – Politics
Date Published: 06/06/2017
Matched on: fishing, fisheries, fishing vessels, fishing industry

Forest & Bird is calling on the Ministry of Primary Industries to set a zero bycatch target for seabird deaths after official figures revealed an estimated 1000 albatross, petrels, and shearwaters were killed by surface longline fishing boats…

Meet Brendan Taylor, one of Foodstuffs’ ‘best’ commercial fishermen

Source: Stuff.co.nz – Business
Date Published: 06/06/2017
Matched on: fish stocks, fishing companies, fish, fishing, seafood, seafood AND new zealand, fishing AND sustainability, seafood AND sustainability, Fisherman, fishermen

He’s a top commercial fisherman who lives in south Auckland and works from a boat he built with his own hands.

Flaxmere man fined $250 for taking kina

Source: New Zealand Herald – National News
Date Published: 06/06/2017
Matched on: fish stocks, fish, marine AND environment

A Flaxmere man has been fined $650 plus costs for attempting to take kina from Te Angiangi Marine Reserve in Central Hawke’s Bay. In December 2016, Department of Conservation ranger Rod Hansen observed Nicholas Eugene Gullery at…

Iconic Bluff oysters could be lost after parasite discovered on Stewart Island

Source: Stuff.co.nz – Stuff
Date Published: 06/06/2017
Matched on: shellfish, fishing, fisheries, fishermen, Sanford, Bluff oysters

Southland’s fishing community fear a parasite could decimate the iconic Bluff oyster, and they want urgent action taken.