September 16, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. It’s official. It’s all our fault. That’s right – never mind the trawlers, the overfishing and the dumping. Apparently the biggest risk to our fisheries future is recreational fishers and we need to regulate them at once. That’s […]
September 9, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. Crayfish ‘functionally extinct’ Crayfish numbers in the Hauraki Gulf have dropped to such a low level they’ve now being called “functionally extinct” by the director of a research marine ecology consultancy company eCoast, Dr Tim Haggitt. Haggitt and […]
September 2, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. Quality over quantity The Quota Management System (QMS) is either world class and the envy of other countries or it’s a con, perpetuated on a people who would have had the wool pulled over their eyes. According to […]
August 26, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. Slipping through the net? Radio New Zealand has asked the Ministry for Primary Industries about its prosecution rate in light of the damning report from Auckland University into fish dumping. Fewer than 1% of its prosecutions related to […]
August 19, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. I’d like to be under the sea… If you, like me, have always wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef in all its technicolor glory, you’d best get in sooner rather than later. This year the Reef suffered […]
August 12, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. Scallops It takes something dramatic to happen to get the Ministry for Primary Industries to agree with LegaSea but sadly that’s the point we’ve reached with the Scallop 7 (Marlborough-Tasman area) fishery. Minister Nathan Guy has closed the […]
August 5, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. The future of fishing We’re all concerned with just how many fish are taken from the oceans each year and what that means for the future of fishing. Will we see an abundant future where our children and […]
July 29, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. Submit It’s been a busy-old time of it at LegaSea and the NZ Sport Fishing Council because it’s open season on submissions – or something like that. This month we’ve put together submissions supporting the temporary closure of Maunganui […]
July 22, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. Marlborough Council calls to ban trawling and dredging Interesting news from the Marlborough District where bottom trawling and dredging is to be banned in certain sensitive areas of the Sounds under the Resource Management Act. The Council wants […]
July 15, 2016
Welcome to the FryUp – a regular look back at the week of fishing in the news. A bold move to protect sharks Campaigning to protect shark stocks along the Great Barrier Reef has been stepped up a notch with WWF buying a commercial shark fishing licence. The conservation group says they will be retiring […]
