Trade Minister David Parker’s announcement of a successful upgrade of the NZ-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has been welcomed by the seafood industry. Seafood New Zealand chief executive, Tim Pankhurst, said China was an important market for New Zealand seafood. “While the volume of seafood going out of New Zealand…

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…

The recovery of orange roughy stocks is gathering pace. Two orange roughy fisheries – one in the Tasman, the other centred in the Pacific and the sub-Antarctic – received substantial quota increases in the sustainability round that came into effect on October 1, the start of the new fishing year.…

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.