January 20, 2025
Sharing is caring and now sharing can contribute towards conservation. Sharing the unwanted parts from your freshly caught fish is one of the easiest ways to help restore our inshore fish populations. It’s simple. If we make better use of what we catch, we can catch fewer fish while still feeding our friends and families. […]
December 30, 2024
What does a Highly Protected Area and a closed scallop fishery have in common? Both signal that New Zealand’s fisheries management is failing, and you are paying the price for that failure. The consequences of poor management are restrictions on your ability to catch scallops or fish for your family. In our last two articles […]
December 10, 2024
We’re pleased to announce the release of the new Free Fish Heads app. Get it now on Google Play and the App Store. Experience the true spirit of community and sustainability with the Free Fish Heads app. We’re on a mission to connect local New Zealand fishers with seafood lovers eager to enjoy the often-overlooked parts of the […]
November 20, 2024
False promises and pretences are all that remains of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Bill. Despite the tagline to “restore the Hauraki Gulf”, last-minute amendments will exclude public access to prioritise commercial interests. This legislative process has been hijacked by industrial fishing interests to maintain the status quo. This means no fishing with your family […]
November 13, 2024
WARNING – this content may be highly aggravating. We suggest you take a deep breath before we explain why the Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Bill will not restore the Hauraki Gulf and instead exclude public access in order to prioritise commercial interests. Since the Sea Change process began in 2013, all parties involved agreed that […]
November 10, 2024
Be prepared to take action when you hear about Fisheries New Zealand’s latest industry-led decision to drag a dredge across Coromandel scallop beds – ironically to survey how many scallops are alive. These are the same scallop beds that have been indefinitely closed to commercial and public fishing since March 2023. So it’s hard to […]
October 24, 2024
Father Christmas or rather Shane Jones, the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, has delivered a generous gift to quota owners in the Snapper 8 fishery on the west coast of the North Island – a 640 tonne increase in commercial catch. Meanwhile recreational fishers have been left with coal in their stockings. The new Snapper […]
October 18, 2024
LegaSea is appalled that Government officials have decided that some commercial fishers will have exclusive access to fish in the proposed High Protected Areas of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. If they press ahead this means commercial and Māori customary fishers will be permitted to fish within Kawau Bay and the Noises while your boat […]
October 14, 2024
Tripling the area where public fishing is excluded within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, while permitting Māori customary and commercial fishing is a gross insult to everyone who has worked hard to conserve fish over the past few decades, according to public fishing interests’ group LegaSea. “The last-minute change to the Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection […]
October 11, 2024
Coromandel locals are horrified that Fisheries New Zealand is currently dragging a destructive industrial dredge through the local scallop fishery that has been closed due to depletion since March 2023. “There has been overwhelming community support for the closure of the local Coromandel fishery because scallop numbers were the lowest we’d ever seen. After all […]
