Seafood Industry | Seafood New Zealand

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 >

Bad behaviour brings us all down

It’s been a long ten days of scandal in political circles and it has drawn well-deserved public...

Friday 24 July 2020Read more >

The bright blue future - strangled in red tape

In the world of New Zealand seafood, aquaculture, it must be said, has always been the teacher’s...

Friday 17 July 2020Read more >

Seafood industry praises MPI for successful theft conviction

The successful conviction today in the Wellington District Court of a commercial fisherman for...

Tuesday 14 July 2020Read more >

Farmers, fishers and growers - how the primary sector will save New Zealand's bacon

On Tuesday this week, the Prime Minister announced a multi-agency, multi-million-dollar plan to dig...

Friday 10 July 2020Read more >

Hard questions needed on dolphin redress

The Ministry for Primary Industries is beginning to reveal the extent of the ex-gratia payments to...

Friday 3 July 2020Read more >

The dolphin decision - a cost/benefit analysis

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

Friday 26 June 2020Read more >

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...

Friday 19 June 2020Read more >

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...

Friday 12 June 2020Read more >

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...

Friday 5 June 2020Read more >

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...

Friday 29 May 2020Read more >

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...

Friday 22 May 2020Read more >

Forging into a new food frontier

A report from KPMG recently provided a stark wake up call for food producers who believed that...

Friday 15 May 2020Read more >

Fishers and farmers lead economic recovery charge

With New Zealand peering into an economic abyss as restrictions on many businesses continue, there...

Friday 8 May 2020Read more >

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...

Friday 1 May 2020Read more >

Commercial fishing industry welcomes Fish Mainland

The endorsement by government of a new recreational fishing lobby group has put wind in the sails...

Friday 24 April 2020Read more >

Alert level three could bring a welcome relief for seafood

The Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday around exactly what services would be permitted to...

Friday 17 April 2020Read more >

Fisheries Inshore welcome the Eastern tarakihi rebuild plan

Fisheries Inshore New Zealand, Te Ohu Kaimoana and Southern Inshore Fisheries welcome the release...

Thursday 9 April 2020Read more >

Seafood industry grateful for its essential workers

Two weeks in and two weeks to go, given the best possible circumstances.

Thursday 9 April 2020Read more >

Seafood sector adapts to uncertain times

The seafood sector is rapidly coming to terms with life in lockdown.

Friday 3 April 2020Read more >

Understanding the emergency - what COVID-19 means for the seafood industry

Forty eight hours into lockdown, with a State of Emergency now in force, the landscape for doing...

Friday 27 March 2020Read more >

Seafood industry battles on through pandemic

These are testing global times and the seafood industry is far from immune to the fall out.

Friday 20 March 2020Read more >

Jeremy Helson named new chief executive of Seafood New Zealand

Dr Jeremy Helson has been appointed chief executive of Seafood New Zealand.

Tuesday 17 March 2020Read more >

First two roadshows well-attended

Seafood NZ’s Promise 2020 roadshow kicked off in Nelson, Australasia’s largest fishing port, last...

Friday 13 March 2020Read more >

NZ's clean-green image backed by environment survey

Perceptions of the New Zealand environment are improving, according to a long running survey by...

Friday 28 February 2020Read more >

A fresh voice for recreational fishers

Co-operation rather than condemnation is the byword for a recreational fishing group gaining...

Friday 21 February 2020Read more >

Paua poachers slammed by industry

The Paua Industry Council (PIC) has praised the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) for a sting...

Friday 14 February 2020Read more >

Hard-hit rock lobster fishery looks for relief

A request by the New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Council for approval to carry over uncaught...

Friday 14 February 2020Read more >

Industry committed to a no-harm seabird policy

The seafood sector is supporting a National Plan of Action to protect seabirds.

Friday 7 February 2020Read more >

Whopper forecast for seafood exports

Seafood annual export earnings are expected to crack the $2 billion mark this year.

Friday 24 January 2020Read more >

Gathering ban could thwart giant kelp opportunities

Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plant species...

Friday 20 December 2019Read more >

Vision to unite the primary sector

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took a break from the Whakaari/White Island tragedy yesterday to...

Friday 13 December 2019Read more >

Seafood industry committed to seabird protection

New Zealand waters are seabird central.

Friday 6 December 2019Read more >

Greenpeace tactics painting an unbalanced view of fishing

You have to hand it to Greenpeace – they are master manipulators of the media.

Friday 29 November 2019Read more >

Taking action to safe-guard New Zealand's black-gold

The recreational paua daily bag limit has been halved in Canterbury, Marlborough and Nelson.

Friday 22 November 2019Read more >

Snapper fishery moving in a healthy direction

Best fishing ever in the Gulf at the moment, Andy McKay tweeted last weekend.

Friday 15 November 2019Read more >

An uncertain future for inter-generational fishing

The debate over the Maui and Hector’s dolphin Threat Management Plan has sparked another discussion...

Friday 8 November 2019Read more >

Appeal Court confirms regional councils may not override fisheries management

In an Appeal Court judgment issued today, it was determined that regional councils are precluded...

Monday 4 November 2019Read more >

Seafood industry welcomes NZ-China FTA upgrade

Trade Minister David Parker’s announcement this evening of a successful upgrade of the NZ-China...