Aotearoa is suffering a serious marine biodiversity crisis. Considering this, it is surprising that Fisheries NZ does not mention the word biodiversity once in its plan to implement camera technologies on its inshore commercial fishing fleet. In ELI’s view, the proposal lacks the urgency and context of the crisis the rollout is designed to address. Read our submission to FNZ here.

With an EEZ that occupies a relatively generous share of the world’s oceans, New Zealand lags behind other countries in its adoption of international standards and norms. This consultation provides the perfect opportunity for New Zealand to do a stock take against international developments in fishing over the past 25 years, redress the current inadequacies in the Fisheries Act (we have suggested two), and fully implement the international obligations we have signed up to on the world stage.

ELI recently submitted on some proposals by Fisheries New Zealand wanting to increase the catches of southern bluefin tuna and west coast north island snapper. Find out why ELI believes maintaining the current TAC makes the most sense ecologically, economically, and culturally.