Seafood Industry Welcomes Our Marine Environment Report Commercial fisheries' impact on the marine environment is reducing. That is according to the Our Marine Environment 2019 report, jointly prepared by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ, released in Wellington today. Seafood NZ chief executive Tim Pankhurst welcomed the report,…

The winner of this year’s Seabird Smart Awards began his quest to invent a fishing technique that keeps seabirds safe from fishing hooks over twenty years ago. Dave Kellian, a fisher based out of Leigh, spent many hours in his shed building a prototype device to release baited hooks ten…

Seafood Directions Conference - presentation Deepwater Group CEO George Clement gave a presentation at the Seafood Directions conference session on sustainability in Melbourne on 10 October 2019, which can be accessed below.

For those inspired by stories of the Kraken, here’s one for you. This five-kilo beast was recently brought aboard the FV Independent while mid-water trawling for arrow squid at the Snares. Having not seen a squid like this before, Independent Fisheries Ltd Operations Manager, Stephen Bishop, notified scientists at NIWA…

The Marine Stewardship Council has published a gallery-style eBook of MSC certified seafood titled ‘Sustainable seafood and where to find it’. The 33-page resource contains information on 28 species found in the waters of Australia, New Zealand, Western Central Pacific and selected Asian countries, all of which hold the blue…