fishing Archive

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  Save our amazing sea lions - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  These are amazing animals that deserve our protection not bad regulations that push them closer to extinction. read more
  January 16, 2012 2:18 pm - 2 Comments
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  Jung Woo 2 and Sparta have no place in the Last Ocean - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  The Jung Woo 2 is now the third ship to come to grief in the Ross Sea in little over a year and should serve as a wakeup call for the Government to close off the Ross Sea as a Marine Protected Area. read more
  January 12, 2012 10:16 am - 2 Comments
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  The last ocean - by frog

  
  
  
  The Ross Sea is described as the world’s last ocean. The Greens support making the Ross Sea a Protected Area, which would mean protecting the Ross Sea’s Antarctic toothfish from fishing. Do you agree? read more
  November 5, 2009 9:33 am - 8 Comments
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  Vote for a sustainable ocean: buy the best fish - by frog

  
  
  
  Forest and Bird has issued an update of its popular, and very useful, Best Fish Guide. The guide takes into account the state of fish stocks, the amount of seabird, marine mammal and non-target fish bycatch, the damage done to marine habitats and other ecological effects caused by the fishing to decide on its rating. [...] read more
  November 3, 2009 10:02 am - 9 Comments
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  Sorry Sealions, it’s “too radical” to save you from extinction - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  DOC and Tim Groser’s excuse for dumping the Hookers Sealion population management plan that the plan is “too radical” and imposes costs is ridiculously lazy and stupid. The Bluegreens are clearly a complete greenwash – how disappointing. There was a moment or two when it looked like they might have been genuine in their commitment, [...] read more
  August 12, 2009 12:46 pm - 4 Comments
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  Marine Animals Bill an opportunity for Govt - by frog

  
  
  
  This Wednesday is Members’ day. One of the bills up for first reading is Metiria Turei’s Marine Animals Protection Law Reform Bill. The Environmental Defence Society’s chair, Gary Taylor, writes today about how the high-profile decline of marine animals and the threat this poses for our economy. He says that the bill is a great [...] read more
  July 27, 2009 1:45 pm - 12 Comments
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  Wild irony in fish advert - by frog

  
  
  
  This advert is on prominent display at Wellington airport. It’s similar to one I noted last year. The Talley boys’ colourful political views are quite well known, and they are hardly the poster-boys for sustainable wild fishing. For example, this insightful analogy for bottom-trawling – a practice that has caused UK supermarket Waitrose to destock [...] read more
  July 22, 2009 7:00 am - 20 Comments
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  Greenpeace’s new fishing video - by frog

  
  
  
  This new vid from Greenpeace features TV fishing personality and extreme stunt fisherman Matt Watson talks about fishing and sustainability, echoing what Metiria Turei wrote on World Oceans Day. read more
  June 23, 2009 3:03 pm - 2 Comments
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  Labour’s disrespect for open government - by frog

  
  
  
  After voters got a chance to know in time for the election Labour has finally declared it has taken $100,000 from a company called Resource Finance Ltd, which is registered at the same address as the infamous Vela Fishing Ltd. There are still no declarations from National or the other parties, including United Future, although [...] read more
  November 11, 2008 8:34 am - 7 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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  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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  An emissions trading subsidy for fishing? - by frog

  
  
  
  The Hive noted on Friday that: The revised [Emissions Trading Scheme] contains an enormous new subsidy for the fishing industry. This was, surprise, surprise negotiated by NZ First… Fish subsidies are the direct cause of over fishing. We are opposed to any subsidisation of this industry. The original ETS has no subsidy going to the [...] read more
  August 31, 2008 4:19 pm - 7 Comments
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  Catch of the day - by frog

  
  
  
  This excerpt below comes from Seafood New Zealand, a monthly trade magazine for commercial fishers that mostly focuses on whining about government imposed set net bans.  This month however, it had bigger fish to fry: “Still in the Manukau, amateur fishers are reporting catches of good sized snapper in the very shallow water, and plenty [...] read more
  July 17, 2008 10:12 am - 21 Comments
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  Shark finning - by frog

  
  
  
  Metiria released these photos today showing that shark finning which is illegal in Europe, Australia, the US and Canada is still happening in New Zealand waters.  Shark finning is the practice of cutting off a shark’s fin for sale as restaurant delicacy.  The rest of the shark is often thrown overboard or turned into cheap [...] read more
  June 6, 2008 2:58 pm - 12 Comments
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  Fishing spokesman hits a new low blaming dolphins for tragic drownings - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  Last night’s One News item, which featured a member of the recreational fishing council blaming set net bans for a tragic drowning, shows the depths to which some will sink to protect their own interests. Fishing council spokesman Keith Ingram was commenting on the WWF Colmar Brunton survey which showed overwhelming public support for a [...] read more
  April 21, 2008 10:31 am - 9 Comments
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  Saving Maui’s dolphins - by frog

  
  
  
  There were up to 29,000 Hector’s dolphins in the 1970s, but today there are only about 8000 left. Scientists say they will continue to decline unless we place restrictions on the fishing methods that are killing them. This afternoon 111 school children representing the estimated 111 remaining Maui’s dolphins (which are a subspecies of Hector’s [...] read more
  November 15, 2007 3:05 pm - 6 Comments