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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.