Export jobs more likely

the government struck a deal with the smelter,what deal will they strike with fisheries?

^^ what CA said, it will be some dirty underhanded tactic 

funny when it comes to exports in nz,my father had a small company and employed 12 staff,had a product he could and did export,but never got a break from government like the big players did.

don't Sanford own them now ? If that's the case its called amalgamation ..At the cost of jobs. Streamlining it back into profitability and running it like the parent co ? With takeovers that's always the case

Fishing giants may join forces
BILL MOORE
Last updated 12:58 13/08/2014



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Two of New Zealand's biggest seafood companies are in talks about consolidating their fishing efforts, a senior manager revealed at a Nelson conference.

Sealord confirmed this morning that talks with Sanford were advanced.

Sanford inshore fisheries manager Shane Walsh yesterday told delegates to the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society's annual conference that he had been in a meeting at Sealord earlier in the day.

Very well expressed
 That is what businesses must always do, (a legal requirement) but when you have been given for free a national resource to harvest for your benefit I would argue that this creates different moral obligations around local jobs when compared to a typical manufacturer or processor.( Morality at the expense of shareholder returns is illegal and directors cab be suits successfully) Especially when you are always using the jobs created as the ongoing justification for the continued destruction of our national fisheries
. I am sure however that the fishing companies would like to argue that they have no legal obligation to do anything that doesn't improve their bottom line.
They do not have to..  it is a legal requirement, which is why we have governments to make rules for this sort of stuff... too the great horror of the extreme right wing.. and they do not very often point this out... because to do so will immediately create a call from citizens for the Government to make companies to pull their ... or force good practice and morality onto them

And this is the way it is world wide ever since the very 1st company formation in Holland... The East India Company.

Big growth in export of headed ,gutted fish to China for processed added  value, re exported to markets in u.s ,japan , E.U. Export in this commodity is rapidly climbing,while frozen fillets are declining.
N.Z jobs continue to go to processing plants in China. This recent election am sure i heard ,continued N.Z job growth. Really.!

Of course no one will say this is the problem. They will say the real solution is for more cost effective slave labour and continued FCV  rust buckets that are cheep and have finished their working life elsewhere or been displaced by collapsing fisheries elsewhere.

Maybe why there is some reluctance to invest in New N.Z vessels and training of N.Z crews. They can see the writing on the wall in that our fisheries will go they same way--down hill like most others.

Mayor blames dollar for Sealord cuts

Workers at Sealord's factory in Nelson said they were blind-sided by news their jobs could be axed as part of a restructure of its wetfish factory.

Nelson mayor Rachel Reese said the current economic situation was causing real problems throughout the country.

She said all industries need to be mindful of the high exchange rate as it is really starting to cause issues for the primary production industry.

"I think the exchange rate is having quite and impact and we've got to be mindful of that over the next 12 months.

"All industries need to be looking at change, looking at the pressures on them."

The Service and Food Workers Union said Government inaction on manufacturing is largely to blame and it is part of a disturbing trend in food processing.

pretty sad when you read this update...

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/255569/sealord-workers-stunned-at-cuts

just an update on what is happening,

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/10579904/Prospects-good-for-axed-staff

Prospects good for axed staff

He said there was no sense in blaming Sealord or any other manufacturer for "adjusting their manufacturing to suit market conditions".

Fish, logs and other unprocessed commodities were sent to China and other relatively unregulated labour markets and brought back processed or semi-processed.

"This is clearly a failure of long-term economic policy and there is no excuse for it. Yes, the products are cheaper for consumers short-term, but the buying power erodes over time because of trade imbalances, resulting in rising unemployment and debt."

New Zealand had no business competing with the northern hemisphere in raw and semi-finished commodities, Ulsaker said.

"New Zealand needs to be niche-oriented. That way, employment stays high and manufacturing independence is achieved."

Last week Sealord fishing general manager Doug Paulin said the group sent 10 per cent of its hoki to China for processing, a figure that had steadily declined and would continue to fall, with 15 per cent processed in Nelson and the remainder at sea.

Sealord has begun consulting with its staff and union officials on the proposal, with no time-frame for a decision given.