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Today we open the new head office of one of New Zealand’s largest privately-owned fishing companies: Vela Fishing Limited.

Speech to NZ Recreational Fishing Council AGM, delivered on Pete Hodgson's behalf by Harry Duynhoven MP.

Address at opening of National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Bream Bay Aquaculture Park, Ruakaka, Whangarei.

An unacceptable number of sea lion kills has forced the early closure of the Auckland Islands squid fishery.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has agreed in principle to an application for a taiapure-local fishery for Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has welcomed the establishment of a new taiapure-local fishery at Nelson’s Delaware Bay.

The termination this week of “Operation Pacman” will deal a severe blow to the extensive poaching and black marketing of New Zealand’s valuable paua and rock lobster resources.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson says the government is comfortable with the Primary Production Committee’s key change to the Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill.

The government remains determined to put in place effective measures to protect the North Island Hector’s Dolphin.

Conservation Minister Sandra Lee and Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson today expressed extreme dismay at reports of two more deaths of endangered North Island Hector’s dolphins from set netting.

The Government has agreed on a package of legislative reforms providing for the sustainable development of aquaculture, Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson and Environment Minister Marian Hobbs announced today.

Eleven more commercially caught fish species will be added to the Quota Management System in the first stage of a major expansion, Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson announced today.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has announced fisheries management changes for the new fishing year that begins today.

[Address to the Maritime and Seafood Educators Association, Wellington]

The Minister of Fisheries, Hon Pete Hodgson, has announced new management measures aimed at ensuring the survival of the critically endangered North Island Hector’s dolphin population.

[Address to the annual conference of the NZ Recreational Fishing Council, Manor Inn, Whakatane].

I would like to start by thanking you - the Recreational Fishing Council.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has indicated his initial views on proposed changes to commercial fisheries catch limits this year, signalling potential reductions in catch levels for hoki, orange roughy, oreo and paua stocks, amongst others.

NZ First leader Winston Peters' complaint that environmental groups are being funded to participate in fisheries management while recreational fishers miss out is both wrong and comically forgetful of his own political record, says Fisheries Minister Pe

Minister of Fisheries Pete Hodgson said today that the fishing company Sealord is selling none of its fishing vessels, contrary to allegations made by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in Parliament today.

[Address to NZ Seafood Industry Conference, Ascot Park Hotel, Invercargill.]

Before I sat down to write this year's speech I decided to read last year's.

Fisheries Plans offer a new way of managing fisheries with greater stakeholder involvement and less reliance on regulation, Minister of Fisheries Pete Hodgson told the Seafood Industry Council's annual conference today.

[Address to Australasian Rock Lobster Research Showcase]

Thank you for the invitation to speak here today.

Minister of Fisheries Pete Hodgson today released a report and summary of submissions from the "Soundings" public consultation process on the future management of marine recreational fishing.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has welcomed the signing of a major treaty on South Pacific Fisheries by his Papua New Guinea counterpart, Ron Ganarafo.