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A State Services Commission report into the management of New Zealand's scampi fishery concludes allegations of impropriety were without foundation.

Litigious fishers haven't distracted the Minsitry of Fisheries from going after poachers in the courts.

The Fisheries minister has made an in-season increase in the amount of squid that can be caught under the quota system becuase of an abundance of the species.

Speech to the mussel industry's Rutherford Attitude Research Field Day

$4.3m has been set aside in the Budget for radio equipment that will make life better and safer for frontline fisheries staff.

Good news for Kiwis who love nothing better than to go fishing. New funding for research will help Government protect their interests.

Speech commemorating International Workers Memorial Day, Market Reserve, Dunedin

A Bill reinforcing the management of fishery resources and implementing a key recommendation of the Select Committee report on scampi

The amateur fishing regulations providing for customary fishing will be reviewed ...

A useful overview of the fishing and seafood industry

The Bluff oyster season will open with the same reduced catch limit as last season ...

A legal loophole that thwarted some prosecutions for alleged fisheries poaching and black market trading is closing ...

National leaps to false conclusions about the enforcement of customary fishing regulations

The Government has accepted the intent of all the recommendations of the Primary Production Committee's inquiry into the scampi fishery

A report to the minister on a proposal for a taiapure-local fishery at Akaroa Harbour

Legislation will bring scampi into the Quota Management System (QMS) from 1 October 2004 ...

Final chapter for Maori fisheries bill

The Primary Production Committee's scampi fishery inquiry has usefully clear and specific recommendations ...

The moratorium on new marine farm resource consent applications is being extended by nine months

Pete Hodgson will be on an international ministerial task force to tackle illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing

The Government has endorsed a marine conservation strategy developed by the Guardians of Fiordland's Fisheries ...

The new Maori Fisheries Settlement legislation will usher in an era of opportunity for Maori in the fishing industry

Southern Seabird Solutions aims to reduce the number of seabird deaths related to fishing ...

Validates a cost recovery settlement with the fishing industry and corrects a drafting error in the Fisheries Act.