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Whangarei Queensland fruit fly - Operations Update 2
Monday, 27 January 2014, 12:28 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
This update is also at: http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/pests/queensland-fruit-fly MPI has been responding to the detection of a single male fruit fly in a surveillance trap since last week. More >>
Good progress in fruit fly operation
Saturday, 25 January 2014, 3:12 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Field work continues in Whangarei to check whether this week’s detection of a single fruit fly is a solitary insect or whether there is a wider population in the area. More >>
Fruit fly find under investigation in Northland
Thursday, 23 January 2014, 5:18 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in Whangarei. More >>
Controls on moving fruit and veges to avoid fruit fly spread
Thursday, 23 January 2014, 4:29 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has placed controls on the movement of whole fresh fruit and some vegetables out of a specific area of Whangarei following a find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap. More >>
Fruit fly find under investigation
Thursday, 23 January 2014, 11:33 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in Whangarei. The fly was collected from a trap on Tuesday 21 January and formally identified on Wednesday 22 January. MPI ... More >>
Fruit fly find under investigation
Thursday, 23 January 2014, 10:23 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in Whangarei. More >>
Monitoring the potential for antibiotic resistance
Friday, 20 December 2013, 2:03 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
An MPI report, released today, looks at trends of antibiotic use to enable monitoring of the potential for antibiotic resistance in food-producing animals and companion animals. More >>
Birds on MPI Christmas wish-list
Friday, 20 December 2013, 1:34 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me – a red-vented bulbul in a kauri tree… (or any tree for that matter)… Well at least that’s what the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) would like for Christmas or the New Year. More >>
No sign of black-grass
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 11:49 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
There is no sign of black-grass in mid Canterbury following three rounds of surveillance, says the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). More >>
US-NZ workshop to tackle ocean acidification
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 9:51 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
Around 60 shellfish aquaculture experts will converge on Nelson this week to attend a joint New Zealand-United States workshop to consider the best ways to future-proof New Zealand’s shellfish aquaculture industry from ocean acidification. More >>
New biosecurity detector dog team at Wellington airport
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 2:22 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A new detector dog team will start next month at Wellington airport with the job of sniffing out exotic pests and diseases that pose biosecurity risk to New Zealand. More >>
Sawmiller fined for illegal milling of native timber
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 5:18 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A 45 year-old Takaka man was fined $3,000 in the Nelson District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to two charges relating to milling indigenous timber. More >>
New Zealand's fisheries performing well
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 4:16 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has now released its 2013 summaries of the Status of New Zealand’s Fisheries which confirms most New Zealand fisheries are performing well. More >>
Ukrainian melon mystery
Monday, 11 November 2013, 2:21 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A passenger bag stuffed with what are believed to be Ukrainian melons has Christchurch airport biosecurity staff scratching their heads. The mystery bag was recently found unclaimed on the baggage carousel following the arrival of a charter flight from ... More >>
Excess snapper find causes a stink
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 2:33 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) compliance officers had a foul surprise when a routine inspection led to the discovery of more than 200 rotting snapper. On the 10 October MPI compliance officers inspected a recreational fishing vessel in Kawakawa ... More >>
New Indonesian posting to boost MPI presence in Asia
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 3:27 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has welcomed the creation of a new position for an agricultural counsellor in the New Zealand Embassy in Jakarta. More >>
Primary Growth Partnership enhances Mozzarella technology
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 5:17 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A Primary Growth Partnership programme is helping deliver world-leading patented technology for the production of quick-frozen grated mozzarella. More >>
Bird-watching reward hunters encouraged
Thursday, 10 October 2013, 10:30 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
Bird-watching reward hunters encouraged The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) encourages Aucklanders and those in the Waikato to keep an eye out for the pest “angry bird”, the red-vented bulbul, as there’s a $300 reward for sighting information ... More >>
Two plead guilty to scorpion charges
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 10:07 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
Two people pleaded guilty today in the Queenstown District Court to charges related to the smuggling of six live scorpions into Queenstown. Brothers James and Matthew Grant from the Queenstown Lakes District were charged with various breaches under ... More >>
Post harvest Rot detected on NZ apples being sent to China
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 2:08 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Post-harvest rot has been detected on three consignments of apples from New Zealand exported to China. The rot, caused by the fungus Neofabraea alba does not pose any food safety risk but has been identified as a quarantine pest by China for plant ... More >>
