Seafood Industry | Seafood New Zealand

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 >

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.