For this video from Sealord, a resourceful pair of interviewers asked people they found on streets, wharves, and beaches about sustainable fishing and Sealord's proposal to keep seamount fishing sustainable by ending trawling on 89 percent of them.

In response to Minister David Parker’s announcement on 25 May about the national roll-out of cameras on commercial inshore fishing vessels, Seafood New Zealand (SNZ) Chief Executive Jeremy Helson says the most important questions still remain unanswered.

Last November the New Zealand Conservation Authority urgently advised both David Parker, Minister of Oceans and Fisheries, and Kiri Allan, Minister of Conservation that toxoplasmosis, not fishing, will likely cause the extinction of the Maui dolphin.

DWG’s CEO George Clement says the industry has always supported a balanced approach to both marine conservation and sustainable seafood production.  Clement’s comments are in response to Sealord’s proposal to set aside 89% of the seamounts in the EEZ for conservation.

Government research continues to show that New Zealand’s fisheries are highly sustainable and fish stocks are healthy, with 94% of the catch coming from stocks with no sustainability risks.