While many in the seafood industry remain busy all through the festive season, the last Update of the year is a good time to reflect on the achievements and challenges of this most remarkable year.
It is often said that a good crisis should not be wasted.
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has just released analysis of New Zealand’s seafood exports into China during the upheaval of COVID-19 and it has concluded that 2 separate waves of the outbreak hit seafood – but New Zealand...
In short, not well.
This week the National Party named Tim van de Molen as the new Fisheries Spokesman. And like Labour a few weeks ago, has changed the name of the portfolio to Oceans and Fisheries.
Labour’s landslide election victory gave them a strong mandate to govern alone, which they have chosen to do, leaving the Greens outside of Cabinet.
A report this week out of South Africa presented a very different take on ocean pollution.
Sometime in the coming months we expect the matter of marine protection will be at the forefront as the Government looks at releasing a discussion paper that aims to reform New Zealand’s antiquated legislation.
A few days ago, two economists at Stanford University in California won the Nobel Prize for Economics for their work on improving auction formats - innovations that provide huge practical applications when it comes to allocating...
