Tag: New Zealand
Sanford to share free food at Auckland festival. New Zealand seafood company Sanford is inviting the public to use virtual reality headsets to take a tour of a deepwater fishing vessel in action as part ...
NZ first country to approve and adopt Hookpod, which virtually eliminates albatross and other seabird deaths in pelagic longline fishing. Move follows Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) approval of Hookpod as stand-alone seabird ...
Proposed NZ Maori aquaculture settlement. New Zealand Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash has announced a public consultation on proposed changes to strengthen the allocation and transfer process in the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004. ...
NZ plan to rebuild fish stocks. New fisheries regulations to rebuild fish stocks within the East Otago Taiāpure area of New Zealand, including banning pāua (edible sea snail) gathering, will take effect next month. From ...
NZ fishing rule changes to protect sea lions. Fishing rule changes to reduce threats to sea lions in the subantarctic Auckland Islands squid fishery have been decided. New Zealand sea lions are a national taonga. ...
Sanford announces $20m investment into Marine Extracts Centre. New Zealand’s largest seafood company Sanford Limited has announced its intention to create a $20m Marine Extracts Centre in Blenheim. The Centre will focus on the discovery ...
Antarctic science trip reveals toothfish secrets. The New Zealand ship Janas has recently returned from a six-week winter research voyage to the Ross Sea where scientists made the first observations of developing Antarctic toothfish embryos. ...
NZ move towards new inshore fisheries plan. Fisheries New Zealand has begun public consultation on a new Draft National Inshore Finfish Fisheries Plan, which will guide the management of these important fisheries for the next ...
New shellfish limit set in New Zealand. The recreational limit of pāua (a type of marine gastropod mollusc) is changing in Canterbury, Marlborough, and Nelson areas in New Zealand to ensure the fishery remains sustainable ...
NZ catfish initiative scoops award. Winners of 10 awards were celebrated at the 2019 New Zealand Biosecurity Awards held in Auckland on Monday, 4 November 2019, with the supreme award going to Te Arawa Lakes ...
NZ seafood industry welcomes China trade agreement. Seafood New Zealand has welcomed Trade Minister David Parker’s announcement earlier this week of a successful upgrade of the NZ-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Seafood New Zealand chief ...
Microplastics fed to snapper in new research project. Microplastics are being fed to snapper, New Zealand’s most popular recreational fish species, at NIWA’s aquaculture research facility near Whangarei, New Zealand, in a bid to establish ...
Startling results from NZ mussel breeding programme. Nelson-based Greenshell mussel company SPATnz is publicly releasing the startling results of its multi-year breeding programme developed in partnership with Sanford, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and ...
NZ Government to support aquaculture growth. The New Zealand Government will work alongside the aquaculture industry to deliver economic growth and jobs for the regions as part of an ambitious goal for it to become ...
Solid financial results from New Zealand King Salmon. New Zealand King Salmon Investments Ltd has reported its financial results for the 12 months ended 30 June 2019, with the business experiencing revenue growth of 8% ...
WASSP Becoming Sounder of Choice for Sport Fishermen. WASSP Multibeam is becoming the sounder system of choice for recreational fishermen in New Zealand, with increasing numbers turning to WASSP’s leading technology to scan and profile ...
Zero tolerance for fishing in NZ closed areas. New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) says zero tolerance will be given to people who fish in areas that have been closed to protect threatened marine ...
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