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Fish and Game New Zealand - Latest News [Page 22]
Wild weather and water worries ahead of the new season
Friday, 25 September 2015, 1:14 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Get out and make the most of favourable conditions early in the new fishing season in the South Island, is the advice from Fish & Game ahead of the 1 October opening. More >>
The countdown begins to trout fishing season opening
Friday, 25 September 2015, 9:06 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
Sales of Fish & Game’s new range of trout fishing licences are going well as anglers eagerly prepare for the opening of the trout season next Thursday, 1 October. More >>
Fish & Game releases thousands of young fish
Thursday, 17 September 2015, 12:09 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game officers have begun a major spring stock-up of Rotorua lakes with thousands of young trout released into most of the Rotorua lakes. More >>
Fish & Game vows ‘strong opposition’ to proposals
Wednesday, 16 September 2015, 2:06 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game has confirmed its strong opposition to commercial trout farming following revelations of a Bay of Plenty Regional Growth Study promoting, among other initiatives, the development of a commercial trout industry. More >>
Anglers and hunters urged to ‘make their vote count’
Monday, 14 September 2015, 12:10 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Hunters and anglers are being urged to make sure they have their say in how the environment and freshwater fish and game bird resources are managed by voting in the Fish and Game Council elections now getting underway. More >>
New technology revolutionises field work – Fish & Game
Wednesday, 9 September 2015, 3:16 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
From counting trout spawning in Fiordland, to monitoring duck numbers in Nelson, Fish & Game is using new drone technology to transform its field work. More >>
Candidates announced
Wednesday, 2 September 2015, 3:34 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Freshwater anglers and gamebird hunters are being urged to make sure they are on Fish & Game’s electoral roll for next month’s regional council elections. More >>
Spawning trout hint at 'solid catches’ ahead
Friday, 28 August 2015, 1:26 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
With well over 1000 trout passing through the Te Wairoa trap on Lake Tarawera so far this spawning season, Fish & Game staff are optimistic that some top notch fishing lies ahead. More >>
Last chance to bag some game birds
Thursday, 27 August 2015, 11:23 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game is urging gamebird hunters to make the most of the last weekend of the gamebird season and bag some upland game birds – pheasants and quail – for the table. More >>
More options as 2015-16 Fishing Licences go on sale
Thursday, 20 August 2015, 11:58 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
Freshwater anglers have a wide range of new freshwater fishing options to choose from as Fish & Game’s 2015-16 trout and salmon licences go on sale today (August 20). More >>
Monster trout hooked in Northland
Monday, 17 August 2015, 2:31 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
An angler has hooked and landed what is believed to be the biggest trout ever recorded from Northland’s Kai Iwi lakes. More >>
‘Nine ways to catch a fish’
Monday, 17 August 2015, 2:19 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game New Zealand is preparing to introduce four new types of fishing licence to provide more choice and flexibility – so both current anglers or newcomers to the sport can buy a licence that “best fits their lifestyle.” More >>
Fish & Game elections – anglers, hunters urged to stand
Monday, 17 August 2015, 2:10 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
“If you’re passionate about trout fishing and hunting and have some firm ideas on how to manage these pursuits – here’s your chance.” More >>
Fish & Game appeal : ‘Please send us your duck details’
Tuesday, 11 August 2015, 2:40 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game officers have made an urgent appeal for game bird hunters to send in any duck band information they have – after a “disappointingly slow” response to the annual call for returns. Senior Fish & Game Officer Matthew McDougall says ... More >>
Fish & Game Calls for Fonterra to Lift Its Game
Thursday, 6 August 2015, 12:10 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game says Fonterra needs to lift its game after the dairy giant was fined $174,000 for several pollution offences under the Resource Management Act. More >>
Fish & Game Hails Ruataniwha Decision
Friday, 26 June 2015, 7:36 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game is welcoming as a “significant victory” the Ruataniwha Board of Inquiry’s final decision on the conditions which would govern the controversial Hawkes Bay dam and irrigation project. More >>
Fish & Game urges the Government to act on water warnings
Friday, 19 June 2015, 5:36 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game urges the Government to act on the Environment Commissioner’s Warnings on Declining Water Quality More >>
Fish & Game Demands Answers Over Taupo Trout Deal
Thursday, 11 June 2015, 2:36 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game is meeting the Office of Treaty Settlements to get answers over a controversial proposal to allow Ngati Tuwharetoa to raise trout in Taupo’s existing trout hatchery facilities. More >>
Large North Island area closing to duck hunting
Friday, 29 May 2015, 1:08 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Make the most of this weekend – that’s the message sent out by Fish & Game officers with the mallard and grey duck season set to close this Queen’s Birthday Monday ( June 1) in the Auckland /Waikato and Eastern Regions. More >>
One game bird season closes, others still open
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 2:08 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game message – one game bird season closes, others still open While the end of the hunting season for mallard and grey ducks is looming in the Eastern Fish & Game Region (Queen's Birthday Monday, June 1, 2015) - there are weeks ... More >>
