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October 28, 2025
Labour Weekend always feels like the start of summer – the unofficial kick-off to fishing season across NZ. The days get longer, the water warms up, and Kiwis start planning those early missions out wide. Before it all gets into full swing, it’s worth taking a moment to check your gear. Make sure your lifejackets ... Read more.
October 10, 2025
It was encouraging to see more than 500 people who care about the marine environment, diving, and fishing make a submission on the future management of crayfish along the upper east coast of the North Island. Thank you to everyone who took the time to write a submission on these important issues. LegaSea and the ... Read more.
September 1, 2025
Scallop season once opened on 1 September in the Coromandel. Today, the date is a stark reminder of what has been lost. Decades of mismanagement, overallocation, and the destructive use of Victorian box dredges drove the Coromandel scallop fishery to collapse. It was only after sustained pressure from the local community, led by Ngāti Hei, ... Read more.
August 27, 2025
Thank you to everyone who answered the call in our last email. Together, we raised close to $10,000 to fuel the fight for our fish. That show of support was powerful – it tells us that thousands of Kiwis are ready to stand up against a system designed to protect industrial fishing interests at the ... Read more.
August 7, 2025
In April, over 25,000 of you made it pretty clear via our submission form that you did not want the proposed ‘reforms’ to the Fisheries Act to go ahead. Unfortunately, your voices have been ignored. In an unsurprising turn of events, Shane Jones announced today that the government has agreed to his “reforms”, and will ... Read more.
July 21, 2025
The fish in our waters don’t belong to quota holders – they belong to all of us. They are a public resource, not a private asset, no matter how entitled the commercial sector may act. Owning quota gives the right to harvest fish, but it doesn’t mean those fish are theirs. Each year, the government ... Read more.
July 3, 2025
It’s that time again. Fisheries NZ has just dropped proposals to change catch limits for 35 different fish stocks around the country, with two more review papers expected by the end of June.
June 23, 2025
In 1901, the New Zealand Times published a warning about trawling in the Hauraki Gulf. It read: “Trawling is working fearful havoc on the feeding beds and spawning grounds on which we depend for our future supply…” That was 124 years ago. Trawling is the industrial dragging of large, weighted nets across the seafloor to ... Read more.
May 29, 2025
Kahawai, also known as the people’s fish, is dear to most Kiwi’s hearts. It’s the fish we caught first when we were kids off the rocks, the wharf, the beach or the dinghy with the dodgy outboard. So it’s apt that it has its own special day. National Kahawai Day, 28th May. Yes, we may ... Read more.
May 8, 2025
With the Fisheries Reform Scam submissions now in, we’ve finally had a bit of breathing room to shift focus toward some more positive things (well – aside from the latest NZSFC Pod and Reel episode, which is a heavy but important listen about the fairly recent tragedy involving three fishers from the Gisborne Tatapouri Club). ... Read more.
