Guardians of Hawke Bay Fisheries Inc

how much more coverage could you ask for from a News Paper?

right now they are doing their part by bring all the news they have covered on fishing dating back quite some time,

even from some others source which they just printed,

Fishing changes announced

http://www.voxy.co.nz/business/fishing-changes-announced/5/136093

Children have so much to teach adults! We would love to hear from all our little Shepherds! Email us on [email protected] and tell us how you feel about the ocean :)



Stop NZ fishing companies from using foreign crewed fishing vessels

https://www.change.org/p/john-key-prime-minister-of-new-zealand-stop-nz-fishing-companies-from-using-foreign-crewed-fishing-vessels



Observers 'drunk' or 'asleep' as fish dumped

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6867583/Observers-drunk-or-asleep-as-fish-dumped



Campaigners for ban on EU fish discards declare breakthrough

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/20/campaigners-eu-fish-discards-victory?newsfeed=true



Ship seized after black market probe

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6012938/Ship-seized-after-black-market-probe



Probe exposes fishing underbelly

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5835608/Probe-exposes-fishing-underbelly



Five officers of a Korean fishing boat are facing court charges over alleged offences linked to dumping fish overboard in a process called "high grading" in the hope of later getting better quality fish.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5791885/Model-fishermen-face-grim-charges



UNDER-DECLARING FISH COULD HAVE BIG COST FOR TAURANGA COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN

http://www.fish.govt.nz/en-nz/Press/Under-declaring+fish+could+have+big+cost+for+Tauranga+commercial+fisherman.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=Pr#MainContentAnchor



An official New Zealand document leaked to Fairfax reveals Wellington, backed by the US, does not want the whole 650,000 km2 Ross Sea declared a marine protected area (MPA), despite a 25-nation convention saying it is "of high global importance"

http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/5768227/NZ-to-veto-total-protection-of-Ross-Sea



Blue cod quota needs more drastic cut - fisherman

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5692069/Blue-cod-quota-needs-more-drastic-cut-fisherman



Scientist says fish quota system failing 2012

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/97673/scientist-says-fish-quota-system-failing



Skepticism over fish plunder claim

http://www.waateanews.com/Waatea+News.html?story_id=MTM2MTc%3D&v=848



Fishing industry catches a wave of sustainability

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6002027/Fishing-industry-catches-a-wave-of-sustainability



Changes to fishing catch limits announced

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1109/S00458/changes-to-fishing-catch-limits-announced.htm



shrinking Bay Fishery burgeon concern




Major fishing industry inquiry unveiled

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5491599/Major-fishing-industry-inquiry-unveiled



"Anglers Slam Quota System", Napier Mail, page 4, 16 Feb 2011






"Fishing trawler, catch seized", HB Today, page 3, 5 Feb 2011

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Families of fishing crew face backlash
The crew of the Oyang 75 walked off three weeks ago claiming they were severely abused, prompting the vessel's charterer, Southern Storm Fishing, and agent, Pete Dawson Fisheries Consultancy, to seek deportation orders

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5261854/Families-of-fishing-crew-face-backlash



The industry's total allowable commercial catch for hoki was slashed from about 250,000 tonnes in 2000/01 to 90,000 by 2007/08
Hoki fishing, which accounts for about 18 per cent of Sealord's revenue, is under way for the season and group chief executive Graham Stuart said the company was seeing bigger, more abundant and better-condition fish.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10737646



Marlborough recreational fishing issues.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/picton/5272122/Post-helps-highlight-fishing-concerns



The Netherlands raises the bar on sustainable fishing

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jul/11/netherlands-sustainable-fishing



SENTENCING IN GISBORNE ROCK LOBSTER CASE

http://www.fish.govt.nz/en-nz/Press/Sentencing+in+Gisborne+rock+lobster+case.htm



Sealord’s change of tuna
Finally, some long-awaited news: New Zealand’s biggest tuna brand, Sealord, has acknowledged that destructive fish aggregating devices are OUT and more sustainable fishing methods are IN. The company announced yesterday afternoon that it will be phasing out the use of FAD-caught tuna by early 2014!

http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/en/blog/sealords-change-of-tuna/blog/45349/



Retail fish prices, 2005–10
This article looks at the prices of fresh fish sold by supermarkets and fish shops, over the period 2005–10, using information collected from nearly 100 retail outlets in the 15 urban areas surveyed for the consumers price index (CPI).

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/economic_indicators/prices_indexes/retail-fish-prices.aspx

MPI
The health of New Zealand's fisheries

http://www.mpi.govt.nz/law-and-policy/legal-overviews/fisheries/the-health-of-new-zealands-fisheries/

Maori have been warned by the government about the way they are using ageing foreign charter fishing boats to catch their Treaty of Waitangi quotas. "Maori are in a unique position to lead the debate on the use of foreign fishing vessels as they are big users," Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley told the Maori fisheries Conference in Nelson.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5051905/Maori-warned-over-ageing-foreign-fishing-boats



Green groups that are "anti-science, anti-business and anti-mankind" are leading New Zealanders to "an exaggerated view on environmental issues", says Talley's Group managing director Peter Talley.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5047192/Fishing-boss-calls-for-action

programme persuaded over 600,000 of us to support a ban on the wasteful practice of throwing dead fish back into the sea. The European commission listened and has announced it intends to ban discarding fish. For some peculiar reason, the fishing industry's reaction to the commission's announcement was not as warm as you might have expected.

Rarely has a TV campaign been won so convincingly. In January this year,



Millions of tonnes of edible fish are caught and then thrown away at sea in Europe for several reasons: some, because they are of low commercial value, but others are discarded because the fishermen do not have a quota for that species, or because if the fishermen landed them, they would exceed their allotted EU quotas.
do's this ring a bell

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/03/fishing-industry-eu-discards-plan



Purse seine fishing expected to expand in Cooks

http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/196092/purse-seine-fishing-expected-to-expand-in-cooks



Japanese company fined for fishing in NZ waters

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4768172/Japanese-company-fined-for-fishing-in-NZ-waters



Letters to the Editor re: "Shoddy Science No Help" Napier Mail, page 13, March 9 2011



"Fisherman Nabbed in Crayfish Sting" Dominion Post, page A11, 3 March 2011



cray pot thieves lose boat





that is enough for now, but you get the picture its been going on for toooo long, the writing is definitely on the wall. its time we got off our ass and did something.

Excellent input Lethal.

"Two things are infinite,the universe and human stupidity,and im not sure about the universe."---Einstein.

Now know he was correct.

As they begin to manage the E.U fisheries and set new standards we will be required to follow and meet those E.U standards if we wish to maintain our fish exports ,i suspect.

just shows how long it has been going on,
everyone is involved from top to bottom,
fishing companies quota holders skippers fishermen,
Government departments MPI NIWA even with observers falsifying records an drunk the list has become so huge because they all believe maybe its good for the NZ economy,
all i know is its got to stop, now i do believe they kill more than they take,
the system has to change, no dumping fish, small fish need to escape no way can you keep killing the next generation and expect it grown,
just think how much more fish there would be if the millions that died in these nets could of lived.