Land: New Zealand

The Minister of Fisheries, Phil Heatley, has announced the next

Long years of commercial trawling and dredging of the seabed are the main reason for the decline of the scallop fishery in Tasman Bay.

Four skippers of New Zealand are being probed for refusing to take an observer on board during the Ministry of Fisheries Hector’s dolphin programme.

Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley has announced several changes that has been done to the catch limits of four rock lobster stocks.

Sealord, New Zealand’s largest fishing company, has decided to lay off 180 jobs in a reorganizing process.

In New Zealand the value of seafood catch is said to be more than a billion US dollar since 1996, affirms NZSIC.

MFish investigation into non reporting of catch and found one commercial fisher guilty of the offence.

New Zealand will now have new fisheries minister who cannot side with any of his constituents without getting up the noses of the others.

An Auckland man, seafood store owner, was convicted of assaulting fishery officer and was sentenced under supervision.

The small but crucial commercial fishing industry at Haast faces uncertainty, following a Maori proposal.