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Salmon Anglers Master Season Bag Limit
Monday, 14 February 2022, 8:15 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
The Canterbury sea run salmon fishing season is underway with good numbers of fish seen and being caught. This year is the first year of a new freshwater fishing regulation - the sea run salmon season bag limit. Anglers who fish for sea run salmon in the ... More >>
Summer Hunting For Paradise Shelduck On Offer
Friday, 11 February 2022, 2:49 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
For Taranaki game bird hunters who can't wait for the traditional May start of the hunting season to come around, Fish & Game is all set to lay on some summer hunting opportunities. Fish & Game has declared a special hunting season ... More >>
Game Bird Habitat Stamp Winner For 2022 Announced
Wednesday, 2 February 2022, 7:20 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
A photo of a pheasant gliding into land by Tauranga’s Jeanette Nee is the image that will adorn the 2022 Game Bird Habitat Stamp. Each year Game bird hunters pay an additional $4 on their hunting licence to conserve the habitat of New Zealand’s ... More >>
CSI Managed Wetlands Hunting Ballots Now Open
Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 9:16 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
The opportunity to access some of the best public land areas for game bird hunting in New Zealand starts today. Even though duck hunting season doesn’t start till the 7 th of May, now is the time to get ready for the new season. Hunters who would ... More >>
Positives Found In High Court Loss On Lindis
Friday, 3 December 2021, 12:15 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Otago Fish and Game Council is considering the implications of a judgement from the High Court where its appeal against the Lindis River Environment Court decision was not upheld. The core of its appeal centred on the way trout were treated in the ... More >>
Fish & Game Supports Calls For Forestry Re-Focus
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 10:59 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game NZ is supporting calls for an urgent rethink on the rapid proliferation of exotic forests currently being supported by central government, and instead refocus on native plantings for better long-term environmental and social outcomes. The Native ... More >>
Band-Aid Won’t Heal Canterbury’s Water Woes
Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 12:14 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game says Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) recent amendments to planning provisions are nothing more than a "band-aid solution" to critical overallocation and pollution of the region’s waterways. One of the major areas ... More >>
November Is The Month For Anglers To Explore
Saturday, 30 October 2021, 5:36 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Anglers across the South Island have been counting down the days until November for the opening of some spectacular fisheries. November heralds the opening of several backcountry and high-country waterways in the South Island for anglers. Each year ... More >>
2021 Fish & Game Election Results
Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 3:08 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Anglers and hunters across New Zealand have had their say, and the results are now in for the 2021 Fish & Game Election. Nominations for the 12 regional Fish and Game Councils closed in August, and in six Fish and Game regions, there were ... More >>
Wetlands Under Threat From Proposed Rule Changes
Friday, 8 October 2021, 10:47 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
Wetlands around New Zealand are at risk from new rules supposedly designed to protect them. The Government’s ‘Managing our Wetlands’ discussion document on the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater (NES-F) proposes changes to enhance and improve ... More >>
Anglers Hit The Water In Numbers For Opening Day
Friday, 1 October 2021, 1:14 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Thousands of anglers across the country headed out before dawn this morning to start the 2021/22 sports fishing season. The weather played its part, with fine weather for opening day across most of the country. With Covid-19 restrictions, fishing has ... More >>
Farewell to Lou Sanson - A friend to anglers and hunters
Tuesday, 14 September 2021, 12:09 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game New Zealand wishes departing Department of Conservation Director-General Lou Sanson all the best for the future More >>
Candidates Confirmed For The 2021 Fish & Game Elections
Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 4:16 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Anglers and hunters throughout New Zealand need to check they are enrolled to vote now that candidates in the 2021 Fish & Game elections were confirmed today. Nominations for the 12 regional Fish and Game Councils closed last Thursday (26th), ... More >>
ORC Adrift On Manuherekia River Flows
Thursday, 26 August 2021, 10:19 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
The Otago Regional Council has failed to be brave in showing the way forward on the Manuherekia River, Otago Fish & Game Council chief executive Ian Hadland says. Yesterday’s failure by the ORC to note proposed minimum flows for the river ... More >>
Manuherekia River Needs A Bold Commitment
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 4:15 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Otago Fish & Game is pleased to see the Otago Regional Council is thinking more wholistically about the ecosystem at today’s public workshop on the Manuherekia River. "However, the ORC could have been braver in its flow recommendations ... More >>
Report Shows Waterways In The Canterbury High Country Are Heading The Same Way As The Plains
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 3:47 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
North Canterbury Fish & Game are concerned by the findings of a major Environment Canterbury (ECan) report showing land-use intensification in the Canterbury high country. ECan scientists found 6,847 hectares in the Waimakariri, Rakaia, Hakatere/Ashburton, ... More >>
New Rules Introduced To Protect Sea-run Salmon Fishery
Friday, 23 July 2021, 12:36 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
To help save New Zealand’s wild Chinook salmon species, a ground-breaking change to freshwater fishing regulations will introduce a season bag for sea-run salmon in the 2021/22 fishing season, in place of a daily catch limit. "The wild sea-run ... More >>
Fish & Game Support Call From Enviro-NGOs For 'under One' Pollution Limit For Water.
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 2:18 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Fish & Game support the call from four of New Zealand's environmental organisations to set a nitrate pollution limit under one milligram per litre for waterways. A nitrate limit, which will define the maximum amount of nitrate pollution allowed in rivers, ... More >>
Nutrients In Rivers - How Much Is Too Much?
Monday, 7 June 2021, 3:43 pm | Fish and Game New Zealand
Dr Adam Canning taking a water sample during an earlier scientific project in the Manawatu Region. Top New Zealand freshwater scientists have answered the question of how much nutrients should be permitted in our rivers to maintain ecosystem health. ... More >>
Precautionary Winter Closure Of Upper Tekapo Canal Sports Fishery
Thursday, 3 June 2021, 8:49 am | Fish and Game New Zealand
Angler concern over the sustainability of one of the world’s best "trophy" trout fisheries has led to a precautionary closure during the peak of the 2021 winter fishing season. The Central South Island Fish and Game Council (CSI Council) has ... More >>
