Four long years on from the Kaikoura earthquake, discussions are beginning on the reopening of the Kaikoura shellfish and seaweed fisheries.
The New Zealand seafood industry has just endured another week of mainstream media criticism.
They’ve got a few problems over the ditch getting Aussies to eat home-grown seafood.
The scientific journal Nature last week published research into the potential of seafood to feed the world up to the year 2050 and, mostly, it is promising.
During the first lockdown, the fishing industry ratcheted up its philanthropy, with many companies donating fish to those in need.
Fishers, farmers, growers and the construction industry are in a worker crisis.
They’re taking mental health seriously in the Australian fishing industry and in New Zealand there is political will, and money, to address the same urgent issues.
At a time when the QMS seems to be under increasing scrutiny by ill-informed critics there is perhaps a certain irony that one of the most fervent champions of fishing reforms in the 1970s and 1980s has passed away in his...
It’s been a long ten days of scandal in political circles and it has drawn well-deserved public condemnation.
