fish Archive

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  World Oceans Day - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  I recently learned to scuba dive at the Taputeranga Marine Reserve on Wellington’s wild South coast which has given me a whole new appreciation of our marine environment. In contrast to outside the marine reserve, life is flourishing with an abundance of fish, crabs and crayfish. We are so lucky to have places like Taputeranga [...] read more
  June 8, 2011 8:57 pm - 10 Comments
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  The End of the Line - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  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 - by frog

  
  
  
  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] - by frog

  
  
  
  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 [...] read more
  April 25, 2009 7:42 am - 15 Comments
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  Dunne’s fish problem - by frog

  
  
  
  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 - by frog

  
  
  
  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 [...] read more
  October 1, 2008 11:29 am - 2 Comments
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  Fishy rhetoric - by frog

  
  
  
  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 do this because only 24 [...] read more
  September 26, 2008 4:16 pm - 4 Comments
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  The one that got away? - by frog

  
  
  
  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 - by frog

  
  
  
  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 [...] read more
  September 10, 2008 11:50 am - 5 Comments
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  The fish market - by frog

  
  
  
  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 [...] read more
  August 26, 2008 1:07 pm - 9 Comments
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  The Last Fish Tale – competition results - by frog

  
  
  
  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 [...] read more
  August 18, 2008 11:21 am - 1 Comment
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  Save the tuna - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace has just released its Red List of the twelve most unsustainable fish commonly eaten in New Zealand that most require urgent action to ensure the future of these species and the fisheries. Meanwhile Metiria has just launched a petition calling on the Government to take urgent action to halt the over-exploitation of one of [...] read more
  August 12, 2008 11:14 am - 8 Comments
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  Last few days for fish competition - by frog

  
  
  
  Just a reminder that our draw/photograph a fish (or something fish related) and win a book competition closes this Thursday. Details here.  And here’s an entry that Dave Head emailed in to me: read more
  August 11, 2008 11:46 am - 3 Comments
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  The fish competition has been spawning - by frog

  
  
  
  Kakariki tried to enter our fish competition and failed. So instead she started her own: Frog blog has this cool creative competition up to win a copy of “The Last Fish Tale – the fate of the Atlantic and our disappearing fisheries�? by Mark Kurlansky. I thought, ‘yeah I can draw a fish!’ but it [...] read more
  August 6, 2008 4:18 pm - No Comments
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  Fish competition - by frog

  
  
  
  There’s a bit more than a week to go in our draw a fish or photo a fish competition and not many entries so far so the odds are good if you get an entry in.  We have two copies of The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kulansky to give away. To enter simply leave [...] read more
  August 5, 2008 10:16 am - 4 Comments
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  Competition – draw a fish & win a book - by frog

  
  
  
  Mark Kurlansky, the author of several bestselling non-fiction titles including Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World and Salt: A World History, has just written a new book called The Last Fish Tale – the fate of the Atlantic and our disappearing fisheries.  And we’ve got two copies to give away to [...] read more
  July 25, 2008 2:26 pm - 17 Comments
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  Greenwash fishing - by frog

  
  
  
  This advert currently resides at Wellington Airport. Given the role Talley’s plays in the current state of our fisheries I imagine the advertising agency that designed this particular piece of greenwash would be washing their hands with bleach. Talley’s is currently selling Monkfish on special: As a sustainable resource, Monkfish allows our customers to benefit [...] read more
  March 26, 2008 8:21 am - 6 Comments
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  Ocean deserts - by frog

  
  
  
  According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) huge desert like areas in the world’s oceans have expanding dramatically in the last decade. Since 1998 large expanse of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans which have low surface plant life grew by 15% or 6.6 million square kilometers. The deserts negatively impact on many [...] read more
  March 12, 2008 12:40 pm - 1 Comment