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Extensive new protections are being put in place as part of an updated plan to look after New Zealand’s native Hector’s and Māui dolphins, announced Minister of Fisheries Stuart Nash and Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage today.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

Better protection for seabirds is being put in place with a new National Plan of Action to reduce fishing-related captures, Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage announced today.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

Government Ministers today celebrated 20 years of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park/ Ko te Pataka kai o Tikapa Moana/ Te Moananui a Toi, and recognise there is much to celebrate and so much more to do to give nature a helping hand.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

A proposed national plan of action to reduce the number of seabirds caught in fisheries is being circulated for public feedback.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

The Government is taking action to improve the health of the Hauraki Gulf by supporting the restoration of shellfish reefs and beds announced Minister for Conservation Eugenie Sage at a meeting of the Hauraki Gulf Forum in Auckland on Tuesday evening.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

The Government is investing in a sea trial of a new bait setting device that could help to eliminate seabird captures during the tuna longline setting process.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

A new Ministerial Advisory Committee has been appointed to help shape the Government’s response to the conservation and fisheries related proposals in the Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

The Government is taking action to expand and strengthen the protection for Māui and Hector’s dolphins with an updated plan to deal with threats to these native marine mammals.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

Action is underway to enhance the protection of our precious marine biodiversity in the face of the global biodiversity crisis.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

Recent deaths of threatened seabirds killed by a longline fishing vessel show the fishing industry needs to do more to avoid seabird bycatch, Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage says.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage and Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash today announced an important step forward on work to restore the health of the Hauraki Gulf.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

New Zealand and Chile will help protect vulnerable seabirds, including the critically endangered Antipodean albatross.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage are accelerating work to improve protection of the nationally endangered Hector’s dolphin, after five were accidentally killed in a fishing net off Banks Peninsula.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries

Two options to protect areas of ocean off the east coast of the South Island will be considered by Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage.

  • Hon Stuart Nash
  • Hon Eugenie Sage
  • Conservation
  • Fisheries