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NZ Dairy Strategy - Environment Must Be A Priority
Monday, 4 May 2009, 4:31 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game New Zealand await with interest the launch of the Strategy for New Zealand Dairy Farming by the Prime minister, John Key on Tuesday. More >>
Clean Streams Accord Stalled
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 10:27 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
“The fifth annual snapshot of progress on the Dairying and Clean Streams Accord released today makes a mockery of the proposition that ‘education leads to voluntary change’,” said Bryce Johnson, Chief Executive of the New Zealand Fish & Game ... More >>
Fonterra’s Effluent Compliance Targets Too Little
Friday, 6 March 2009, 12:12 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game New Zealand welcomes Fonterra’s measures to lift dairy effluent compliance announced today, but urges a much more robust approach. More >>
Fonterra’s Effluent Compliance Targets Too Little
Friday, 6 March 2009, 12:09 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game New Zealand welcomes Fonterra’s measures to lift dairy effluent compliance announced today, but urges a much more robust approach. More >>
Public Ownership Of St James Station Welcomed
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 2:06 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game New Zealand welcomes the Government’s purchase of the iconic St James Station as a valuable recreational and conservation treasure for all New Zealanders. More >>
Felt Soled Wading Boots To Be Banned From 1 Oct
Monday, 28 July 2008, 4:32 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
The Minister of Conservation agreed in principle last week with a Fish & Game New Zealand submission to ban the use of felt soled wading boots for freshwater fishing. The ban, yet to be approved and included in the proposed 2008/09 Anglers Notice for ... More >>
Felt Soled Wading Boots To Be Banned
Monday, 28 July 2008, 3:03 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
The Minister of Conservation agreed in principle last week with a Fish & Game New Zealand submission to ban the use of felt soled wading boots for freshwater fishing. The ban, yet to be approved and included in the proposed 2008/09 Anglers Notice for ... More >>
National Policy Statement For Freshwater
Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 2:38 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
“This document is welcome and supported in principle, albeit after extensive delays in its development,” said Bryce Johnson, Chief Executive of Fish & Game New Zealand. “We are particularly pleased to see that the Government has stated its ... More >>
"Eco-Labels" Must Reflect The Reality.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 2:19 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
"The European Union's eco-labeling scheme presents great opportunities for New Zealand's primary industries, but this accreditation depends on more than fine words and good intentions," said Bryce Johnson, Chief Executive Fish & Game New ... More >>
Another Delicious Month
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 1:29 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
The third Fish & Game NZ Wild Game Bird Food Festival will run for one more month - extending its season until 29 June. More >>
Public Access to Kaiangaroa Forest Protected
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 4:04 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game New Zealand applauds the protection and enhancement of public access to the Kaiangaroa Forest as part of a Crown settlement with Central North Island iwi announced today by Treaty Negotiations Minister Michael Cullen. More >>
Thousands of fat trout in Lake Pupuke
Monday, 28 April 2008, 1:47 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game released 1000 (2-4lb) rainbow trout into Lake Pupuke last Thursday. When added to the tanker loads of trout released into the lake last year this makes more than 3000 rainbows released into this highly urban lake in just one year. More >>
Fish & Game NZ Wild Game Bird Food Festival 2008
Friday, 18 April 2008, 2:39 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
The unique Fish & Game NZ Wild Game Bird Food Festival has brought phrases such as duck prosciutto, whole foie gras, pheasant confit and semiboneless quail into New Zealand’s cuisine vocabulary. More >>
Lake Waikare sewage discharge application
Friday, 28 March 2008, 11:41 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
Waikato’s Lake Waikare could have a 1,100 cubic meters of sewage pumped into it daily just as the government and regional authorities commit to a $140 million clean-up of Rotorua’s polluted lakes. More >>
Chapter 13 Exposed
Monday, 11 February 2008, 12:24 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
“Chapter 13 [deleted from the official State of the Environment Report released by MfE at the end of January] has highlighted and confirmed that intensive agriculture and the associated deterioration of lowland water quality is the number one issue ... More >>
The Monster Wairarapa Wild Goose Hunt
Monday, 4 February 2008, 2:55 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
“A great success”, said Phil Teal, Manager of Wellington Fish & Game Region, “with plenty of opportunities for us to learn how to do things better in the future.” More >>
Anglers and Hunters Behind Water Conservation
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 1:32 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Freshwater anglers and game bird hunters are behind Water Conservation Orders and their significant role in protecting New Zealand’s water bodies. The Government’s report on the state of the environment released today acknowledges Water Conservation ... More >>
Now, Let’s See Some Action
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 1:29 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
The State of the Environment Report released today carries the blunt message from the Minister for the Environment that the report, ‘highlights the decline in water quality New Zealand faces as a consequence of the increasing intensity of agricultural ... More >>
Action Must Follow State of the Environment Report
Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 1:29 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game New Zealand is concerned that tomorrow’s release of the second ever national State of the Environment report will be exploited to provide unconvincing justification for further inaction by both agriculture and government to clean up ... More >>
Healthy Wetlands, Healthy People
Sunday, 27 January 2008, 6:15 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Each year World Wetlands Day is acknowledged with a host of events throughout the country when Fish & Game NZ and the Department of Conservation lead a range of organizations in creating varied wetland experiences around that year’s WWD theme, chosen to ... More >>
