fish Archive

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  The End of the Line

  
  
  
  This great documentary on the demise of the planet’s fish stocks was launched at the Paramount last night by a coalition of environmental groups (ECO, Forest and Bird, WWF and Greenpeace). read more
  March 5, 2010 10:39 am - 2 Comments
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  Fish industry uses net to catch hoki criticism

  
  
  
  To the surprise of conservationists, in 2001 the New Zealand hoki fishery was recognised as a sustainably managed fishery by the Marine Stewardship Council. Yet conservationists have continually raised concerns over how the fishery could possibly be sustainable when bycatch rates of NZ fur seals and seabirds are so high and the bottom trawling equipment [...] read more
  December 12, 2009 10:05 am - 9 Comments
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  A letter in a bottle[nose dolphin]

  
  
  
  This great letter appears in the April issue of Seafood New Zealand magazine. I’ll let it speak for itself: Dear Editor Well, the dolphin observer program has come to an end and, might I hazard to say, with some very positive results. Our worst fears of being landed with some hairy armpit, tattooed Green who was coming on [...] read more
  April 25, 2009 7:42 am - 15 Comments
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  Dunne’s fish problem

  
  
  
  After Lockwood Smith swallowed his dead fish and Winston Peters suffered the ongoing accusations about taking secret donations from the fishing industry we find out now that Peter Dunne might have his own piscine scandal to deal with via the infamous Vela family.  That certainly makes an improvement from his previous funding scandals.  I wonder [...] read more
  November 3, 2008 3:04 pm - 12 Comments
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  Running out of fish

  
  
  
  Dot Earth has this short video, noting that our oceans are running out of fish.  Actually not just running out of fish but being profoundly stripped empty: For more than a decade, marine scientists and communicators have been trying to convey just how profoundly the biological bounty of the seas has been stripped away in the [...] read more
  October 1, 2008 11:29 am - 2 Comments
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  Fishy rhetoric

  
  
  
  This week the House debated the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Bill (No 2). This Bill simply allows for the Minister to set Total Allowable Catch (TAC) limits under the Quota Management Scheme (QMS) with incomplete information about the state of the fish stock. The Minister has to be able to [...] read more
  September 26, 2008 4:16 pm - 4 Comments
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  The one that got away?

  
  
  
  I cannot believe that I am typing this, but I have the feeling that Winston Peters, via his lawyer’s testimony to the Privileges Committee today, has just wriggled off the hook. Even Rodney Hide was squirming in his seat as Mr Henry detailed a plausible version of events where Owen Glenn rings Peters, who rings [...] read more
  September 16, 2008 11:45 am - 17 Comments
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  Empty oceans

  
  
  
  Our poor little disappearing whitebait are not alone.  Or to be more accurate, once they reach the ocean, they are alone. The US Good magazine has an important story, Fin: The Last Days of Fish that notes: Our oceans carry less than a tenth the number of fish they once held, yet few of us have [...] read more
  September 10, 2008 11:50 am - 5 Comments
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  The fish market

  
  
  
  The Guardian’s George Monbiot has a shocking tale of when free trade deals go wrong. The two players in the story are firstly Senegal, one of the poorest countries on the planet, where the people mostly eat fish. They get 70 percent of their protein from fish: Traditionally cheaper than other animal products, it sustains a population [...] read more
  August 26, 2008 1:07 pm - 9 Comments
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  The Last Fish Tale – competition results

  
  
  
  Metiria has just judged the entries or our ‘The Last Fish Tale’ competition and picked Dave Head’s drawing of the Nanua as the winner.  She says: ‘It was really nicely done, Dave.’ And the second book as a spot prize goes to Umbatata who sent several photos including this shark head.  Metiria says: ‘I am prone [...] read more
  August 18, 2008 11:21 am - 1 Comment