Seafood Industry | Seafood New Zealand

Dangerous assumptions - the importance of accurate reporting

This week, Seafood New Zealand had to make a rare call to the nation’s media to clarify assumptions...

Monday 19 July 2021Read more >

Industry conference future-focused

The 2021 seafood industry conference programme covers two full days in August and has a clear focus...

Monday 19 July 2021Read more >

Will RMA reforms stop regional interference in fisheries?

The much anticipated reform of the Resource Management Act is underway, with Environment Minister...

Friday 2 July 2021Read more >

Hauraki Gulf changes raise challenges and opportunities

On Tuesday, when the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, David Parker announced the long-flagged...

Friday 25 June 2021Read more >

Marine heatwaves, zombie kina, and why MPAs need careful thought

Advocates of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a tool to rectify kina barrens are quick to blame...

Monday 21 June 2021Read more >

Record-breaking fundraiser for families of fishermen lost at sea

Last week’s Federation of Commercial Fishermen’s conference was remarkable for a number of reasons,...

Friday 11 June 2021Read more >

Push for Kiwi workers urgent, challenging and future-focused

Government changes to reduce migrant workers in favour of New Zealanders are going to be extremely...

Friday 4 June 2021Read more >

Cross sector collaboration will make the primary sector stronger

There has never been a better time for collaborating with other primary industries.

Friday 28 May 2021Read more >

Hope for the Kaikoura paua fishery, five years post-earthquake

When the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake struck at midnight on November 14, 2016, the damage to the paua...

Friday 21 May 2021Read more >

Fighting the good (communications) fight

Every year, a global communications entity called Edelman do a worldwide research project on who...

Friday 14 May 2021Read more >

Fish stocks confirmed to be in good shape

The latest Status of our Fish Stocks, as assessed annually by the Ministry for Primary Industries...

Friday 7 May 2021Read more >

New Zealand's deepwater fisheries - a success story

With misinformation on seafood at an all-time high right now, it is more important than ever to...

Friday 30 April 2021Read more >

Rakiura - adapting to change

Seafood New Zealand spent last week on Rakiura/Stewart Island.

Friday 23 April 2021Read more >

New Zealand leading the world to eliminate fishing subsidies.

Two years after coming into force, New Zealand has opened consultation on future membership of the...

Friday 16 April 2021Read more >

Time for some agility around changes to daily bag limits

If the number of applications for rahui being processed since the end of lockdown are anything to...

Friday 9 April 2021Read more >

Still fit for purpose - the future-focused Fishing Act of 1996

The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Dame Juliet Gerrard, this week completed a substantial...

Friday 26 March 2021Read more >

Seafood industry welcomes report from PM's chief science advisor

Seafood New Zealand chief executive Dr Jeremy Helson has welcomed a report into New Zealand’s...

Monday 22 March 2021Read more >

The truth about bottom trawling

The Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, David Parker, when questioned in the House last week on...

Friday 19 March 2021Read more >

The question you should be asking about your fish and chips

Cuisine magazine has devoted most of its March edition to a celebration of New Zealand seafood, and...

Friday 12 March 2021Read more >

Black petrel captures reported

A small family fishing company has self-reported the capture of 18 endangered black petrels and two...

Friday 5 March 2021Read more >

Bringing the next generation into the seafood industry

Education is on the minds of industry, the government, and multiple agencies right now and being...

Friday 5 March 2021Read more >

From fishery science to fake news: how misinformation about the ocean evolves

This week’s Update is republished with permission from the Sustainable Fisheries website from the...

Friday 26 February 2021Read more >

Marketing perceptions of New Zealand in a COVID-world

New Zealand Story has just released a comprehensive report on how the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted...

Friday 19 February 2021Read more >

The looming crisis of international airfreight

The clock is ticking on a lifeline for the seafood industry in a COVID-19 world.

Friday 12 February 2021Read more >

Getting locals into the seafood industry - the promise, the plan, and the progress

In the midst of last year’s COVID-19 pandemic, the government threw the seafood industry a lifeline...

Friday 5 February 2021Read more >

The importance of fisheries management

A major paper on fisheries management has just been released by researchers at the University of...

Friday 29 January 2021Read more >

Calling time on a challenging year

While many in the seafood industry remain busy all through the festive season, the last Update of...

Friday 11 December 2020Read more >

Industry focuses on recruitment

It is often said that a good crisis should not be wasted.

Friday 4 December 2020Read more >

Pregnant women now able to eat more fish species - research

Research conducted by New Zealand Food Safety into the mercury levels of fish species has allowed...

Thursday 3 December 2020Read more >

The China export game - how NZ's largest market held up in 2020

New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has just released analysis of New Zealand’s seafood exports...

Friday 27 November 2020Read more >

Banning NZ seafood exports to the US - how is Sea Shepherd doing?

In short, not well.

Friday 20 November 2020Read more >

Wider oceans policy adopted by National as well

This week the National Party named Tim van de Molen as the new Fisheries Spokesman. And like Labour...

Friday 13 November 2020Read more >

Oceans and Fisheries - what the new portfolio offers industry

Labour’s landslide election victory gave them a strong mandate to govern alone, which they have...

Friday 6 November 2020Read more >

Plastics - part of the problem and one we must solve

A report this week out of South Africa presented a very different take on ocean pollution.

Friday 30 October 2020Read more >

Saving our oceans - why the answer is not locking 30 percent up

Sometime in the coming months we expect the matter of marine protection will be at the forefront as...

Friday 23 October 2020Read more >

The mysterious link between the Seychelles, the Nobel Prize and fisheries sustainability

A few days ago, two economists at Stanford University in California won the Nobel Prize for...

Friday 16 October 2020Read more >

Travel advice for Ms Ardern and Ms Collins

In one of the light moments, okay the only light moment, of the second televised political leaders’...

Friday 9 October 2020Read more >

Why every signpost is pointing to algae

Cawthron Institute’s announcement yesterday that they have been awarded $3 million to investigate...

Friday 2 October 2020Read more >

Seafood industry honours its people in a challenging year

As New Zealand dealt with COVID-19, the seafood industry continued to provide the country with...

Friday 2 October 2020Read more >

Immigration decision a lifeline for fishing companies

Cabinet’s decision this week to allow foreign fishing crew to enter New Zealand was a huge relief...

Friday 25 September 2020Read more >

The healing of Kaikoura

Four long years on from the Kaikoura earthquake, discussions are beginning on the reopening of the...

Friday 18 September 2020Read more >

You want debate? Let's make it informed

The New Zealand seafood industry has just endured another week of mainstream media criticism.

Friday 11 September 2020Read more >

Cobber, you know our seafood is better, right?

They’ve got a few problems over the ditch getting Aussies to eat home-grown seafood.

Friday 4 September 2020Read more >

How food from the sea has limitless potential - with caveats

The scientific journal Nature last week published research into the potential of seafood to feed...

Friday 28 August 2020Read more >

It's time to stop talking to ourselves

During the first lockdown, the fishing industry ratcheted up its philanthropy, with many companies...

Friday 21 August 2020Read more >

Foreign worker crisis needs a private and collaborative solution

Fishers, farmers, growers and the construction industry are in a worker crisis.

Friday 14 August 2020Read more >

Let's talk about mental health

They’re taking mental health seriously in the Australian fishing industry and in New Zealand there...

Friday 7 August 2020Read more >

Seafood industry celebrated at the Seafood Sustainability Awards

The big winner at last night’s Seafood Sustainability Awards was a man who has spent almost 20...

Tuesday 4 August 2020Read more >

A goodbye to Peter Stevens - a guest column by his mate, Daryl Sykes

At a time when the QMS seems to be under increasing scrutiny by ill-informed critics there is...

Friday 31 July 2020Read more >

Focus on primary industry job growth welcomed by seafood industry

The launch today of the Ministry for Primary Industries’ (MPI) new website on jobs is welcomed by...

Monday 27 July 2020Read more >

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