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New Zealand's wild fisheries captured 441,000 tonnes and earned over NZ$1 billion in exports in the fishing year 2006/07. The aquaculture of mussels, salmon and oysters earned another $226 million. This made seafood the country's fifth largest export earner. [5] There are about two tonnes of fish in the New Zealand fisheries for every New ...
Burrell, Mike and Meehan, Lisa (2006) The New Zealand Aquaculture Strategy – commissioned by the New Zealand Aquaculture Council with the assistance of the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council and the Ministry of Economic Development. Dawber, Carol (2004). Lines in the Water: a history of greenshell mussel farming in New Zealand. Picton, NZ ...
Fish & Game New Zealand is the collective brand name of 12 regional fish and game councils and the New Zealand Fish and Game Council which administer sports fishing and gamebird resources in New Zealand (apart from within the Taupo Fishing District, administered by the Department of Conservation). Fish and game councils are regionally ...
Independent Fisheries is one of the largest privately owned fishing companies of New Zealand. [1] It started as a suburban fish and chip shop in 1956, became a fishing company in 1960, grew to acquire multiple ships and storage facilities, and has more than 500 employees. [1] At its peak, the company employed over 1,000 people. [2]
New Zealand is "the world leader in implementing IFQs". [1] QMS was introduced by the Fisheries Amendment Act 1986 , [ 2 ] initially covering 26 marine species. [ 1 ] The following year, it covered 30 species, and by 2005, it covered 93 species, [ 1 ] out of the 140 commercial species in New Zealand's exclusive economic zone (EEZ). [ 2 ]
Since the 1980s, Sanford have augmented their ocean fishing with aquaculture, initially with oysters and now operating major mussel farms in the Marlborough Sounds.By the end of the 20th century, the company had become New Zealand's largest aquaculture company, with greenshell mussels, Pacific oyster farms in Northland, and king salmon around Stewart Island.
The Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve was established next, although with only a partial ban on fishing; a full ban was implemented in 1998. The first two marine reserves in Fiordland were established at the request of New Zealand Federation of Commercial Fishermen in 1993. [4]
Moeraki is a small fishing village on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.It was once the location of a whaling station. In the 1870s, local interests believed it could become the main port for the north Otago area and a railway line, the Moeraki Branch, was built to the settlement and opened in 1877.