In 2022 a paper appeared in Nature Sustainability entitled "The environmental footprint of global food production." It has many good aspects but did grossly overestimate how much fishing impacted marine ecosystems. The Washington Post took this paper and produced a food calculator that suggested that most fish had a higher…

People in Auckland, Waikato and beyond face a shrinking choice of seafood options at supermarkets, fish and chip shops and restaurants under the proposed Hauraki Gulf commercial fishing bans.

The Fisheries ITP is focused on the wild catch sector of the New Zealand seafood industry. It sets out the first wave of actions toward sector transformation and sits within a broader work programme to manage the environmental effects of fishing.

A review paper from our international group studying the impacts of bottom trawling is finally out in the ICES Journal of Marine Science. This post summarises the current state of bottom trawling sustainability around the world.

The average carbon footprint of wild-caught fish harvested and processed at sea by New Zealand’s deepwater fishers is estimated to be one of the smallest among animal-based protein sources. This is evidenced in a study by Crown Research Institute AgResearch senior scientists Dr Stewart Ledgard and Dr André Mazetto, released…