LegaSea Newsletter #132 – Starving snapper and Kaikōura pāua reopening – A mixed bag

April 13, 2023

Another week and another Minister has been appointed to look after our fish and marine environment.

Rachel Brooking is the new Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, sitting outside Cabinet. She replaces David Parker who was reappointed last month when Stuart Nash (a Minister for Fisheries in the last government) was stripped of his ministerial responsibilities. That was after replacing Parker in a Cabinet reshuffle at the beginning of the year.