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Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today announced a new strategy to guide the setting of catch limits and related management actions for New Zealand's fisheries.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton has agreed to the request for a further two-year closure of green-lipped mussel beds in Ohiwa Harbour, Bay of Plenty.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Sharks are vulnerable to over-fishing, and a new national plan of action will strengthen measures to conserve and manage them, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton says.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton and Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick said the largest marine farm in New Zealand could have the potential to provide 500 new jobs.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Iwi Maori and the Crown have reached an early agreement over resolution of ‘pre-commencement' (1992-2004) aquaculture interests in the South Island and the Coromandel, Fisheries Minister Jim Ande

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton announced today that two beaches in the Hauraki Gulf will be closed to shellfish gathering, due to concern about the effect large numbers of people gathering cockles

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton has today reduced catch limits in commercial bluenose fisheries, based on information from joint industry-government research.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton is reminding recreational fishers in the Marlborough Sounds that new blue cod fishing regulations will come into effect from tomorrow (1 October 2008).

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

New fishing rules to protect New Zealand's threatened Hector's and Maui's dolphins will come into force for recreational and commercial fishers tomorrow (Wednesday 1 October 2008), Fisheries Minist

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said the Government would strongly defend the fishing industy suit filed today.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Non-commercial interests opposing the Fisheries Act Amendment Bill are mistaken about what the Bill proposes, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today. 

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

A new mätaitai reserve over waters within Waikawa Harbour, Porpoise Bay, Curio Bay and the lower section of the Waikawa River is to be established, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.&

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton has agreed in principle to a proposed taiapure-local fishery in the waters surrounding Te Wakatehaua Island (the Bluff), Ninety Mile Beach.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

New Zealand played a key role in achieving the successful agreement of guidelines on limiting the impact of deep water fishing on fragile fisheries and habitats, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton sai

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Madam Speaker, I move that the Fisheries Act Amendment Bill (No. 2) be now read for a first time.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

A bill to address concerns raised by the High Court has been introduced into Parliament, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Aquaculture NZ has become the latest private sector group to sign up to become a cornerstone investor in the NZ Fast Forward initiative, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Tough decisions have to be made in fisheries because of increasing pressure on fish stocks, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

I would like to start out by acknowledging Keith Ingram. This is Keith’s last year as President of the Recreational Fishing Council.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

The open season for recreational fishers to gather scallops in the Marlborough Sounds and Tasman and Golden Bays starts for the year on Tuesday 15 July.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton is reminding recreational scallop fishers in the northern half of the North Island that the scallop season now opens on 1 September.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

The open season for recreational fishers to gather scallops in Wellington Harbour starts for the year on Tuesday 15 July.

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

An international fishing company caught supporting Southern Ocean illegal fishing can now be named and shamed after an attempt in the High Court to gag the government failed, Foreign Minister Winst

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture

Sustainable catch limits, allocations between fishing sectors and recreational fishing bag limits for the kahawai fishery will be reviewed in 2009, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton announced today.<

  • Jim Anderton
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture