Land: New Zealand

The government of New Zealand has approved changes in fish farming plan after two years of research.

Long-finned eel is as endangered as the Kiwi, but it is still being commercially exploited. And now its stock is on the short path to extinction.

In New Zealand a commercial fishermen’s co-operative has stop backing the proposed mataitai.

The frozen or processed New Zealand fish has travelled all the way to China or Thailand and then all the way back to the eating table.

The government of New Zealand has chalked out a national plan of action to protect the sharks from overfishing.

The government of New Zealand has approved the plan for the country’s largest offshore marine farm.

Scientists warn that New Zealand dolphins are under severe threat due to commercial fishing which uses nets.

Employees of two Korean foreign-flagged, fishing vessels have been fined a total of $360,000 and an order was made to forfeit their vessels to the Crown, after being caught ‘trucking’ more than 700 tonnes of Ling in New Zealand waters.

The 15th annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation

The Nelson District Court has found Sealord guilty of dumping waste fish from one of its vessels.