Industry News | Seafood New Zealand

The dolphin decision - a cost/benefit analysis

It’s landed, and the fallout is just beginning.

Friday 26 June 2020

Good fisheries management - the only solution to overfishing globally - FAO

The 2020 State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture report (SOFIA) has landed from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

Friday 19 June 2020

Building a plane out of bananas, and other dumb ideas

LegaSea’s Rescue Fish plan, released two weeks ago, is apparently the answer to ‘restoring fish stocks and revitalising New Zealand’s commercial fishing sector’.

Friday 12 June 2020

Scientific integrity must be paramount in a fake news world

Many a beautiful theory has been killed by an ugly fact, so the saying goes, and a demonstration of that was witnessed this week when the work of one scientist was eviscerated by another.

Friday 5 June 2020

Fishing and the environment - it shouldn't be an either/or

This week’s release of the National Plan of Action on seabirds was the result of three years of discussions between industry, eNGOs, Fisheries New Zealand and the Department of Conservation (DOC).

Friday 29 May 2020

Warming waters an increasing threat to the planet and fishing

The volume of chatter about the global environment has been temporarily turned down while the world deals with a more urgent and imminent virologic threat and so it is little wonder that a recent study on the health of the...

Friday 22 May 2020

Forging into a new food frontier

A report from KPMG recently provided a stark wake up call for food producers who believed that eventually, in some distant pandemic-free time, it would be business as usual for providing and serving customers food.

Friday 15 May 2020

Fishers and farmers lead economic recovery charge

With New Zealand peering into an economic abyss as restrictions on many businesses continue, there is reason for optimism coming out of the primary sector.

Friday 8 May 2020

Kindness in a crisis - how the industry is stepping up

With little fuss the seafood industry has been quietly helping out the community in the COVID-19 crisis.

Friday 1 May 2020