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Angling-Conservation Group Sees Fast Track Bill As Undemocratic
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 10:33 am | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Principal reasons for the opposition is the loss of the public’s democratic right to have “a fair say” and the vital need for a government free from corruption, said Casey Cravens of Dunedin, president of the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater ... More >>
Under-threat Rakaia River WCO Protection Status Is A National Issue
Thursday, 27 July 2023, 4:16 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA) is participating a major effort to maintain the integrity of the Water Conservation Order (WCO) for the Rakaia River in the wake of Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) alleged neglect of the WCO ... More >>
Anglers’ Research Discloses Severe Nitrate Pollution In Public’s Rivers
Saturday, 4 June 2022, 11:15 am | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Research by the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA) has revealed unacceptably high levels of nitrate pollution in rivers and streams across Canterbury. NZFFA president Dr Peter Trolove said the massive increase in the amount of irrigated ... More >>
Politicians Blamed For Damning Report On Continuing Contaminated Water
Friday, 17 April 2020, 2:57 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
A trout and salmon advocacy is alarmed at a newly released report from the Ministry for the Environment on the increasingly polluted and degraded condition of New Zealand’s public waterways, which also discloses how little is known about the amount of non-natural ... More >>
River Ecosystems Declining Say Anglers
Monday, 27 May 2019, 9:08 am | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
The public’s trout fishery is severely declining in a number of rivers due to drops in both flow and quality says a national trout fishing advocacy. In his annual report retiring president of the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers Graham Carter ... More >>
Water quality needs the truth
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 5:35 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Dairy NZ and NZME have launched a movement called 'The Vision is Clear', demonstrating that there is a clear vision for change and reflecting the benefit of this vision to all New Zealanders – healthier waterways for all to enjoy". More >>
The end of freshwater sports fishing
Thursday, 20 September 2018, 2:50 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers is aghast over plans by Greens MP Eugenie Sage to introduce a bill (Conservation [Indigenous freshwater Fish] Act Amendment). More >>
Get Involved In Fish and Game Elections
Monday, 13 August 2018, 3:22 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
A national rivers and trout and salmon fishing advocacy has urged anglers to get involved in this year’s elections for Fish and Game Councils. More >>
Clean, Flowing Rivers Must be Restored- Trout Fishing Lobby
Monday, 16 July 2018, 2:05 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Restoring clean flowing rivers is the goal of a national trout fishing advocacy the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA). More >>
Mackenzie Country Dairy Farming Expansion
Tuesday, 3 July 2018, 10:55 am | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
The NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA)supports the reported comments of the Forest and Bird Society in opposing the expansion of dairy farming in the Mackenzie basin. Graham Carter, president of the Federation of Freshwater Anglers, a nation-wide ... More >>
“100 Million Trees” Dream Must Avoid Pine Monoculture
Friday, 2 March 2018, 11:43 am | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
A national rivers and trout fishing advocacy wants caution and foresight in the new government’s ambitious “one million trees” policy so as to avoid monocultures of pines. More >>
Environmental challenges facing NZ
Friday, 9 February 2018, 9:06 am | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Water quality and availability, rapid urbanisation, and the impact of natural hazards and climate change are the top three planning issues affecting New Zealand in 2018 and beyond, according to the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI). More >>
Trout Anglers Back PM’s Public Water Ownership
Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Water is a public resource and should not be owned or given away, says a national trout fishing advocacy. More >>
Trout Fishing Federation Opposes Tradeable Water Rights
Monday, 27 March 2017, 12:58 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
The current debate about charging for water should not open the door to tradeable water rights says a national trout anglers organisation. The NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers has opposed the right of water use holders to sell those rights, a system ... More >>
Anglers Call for Proper Debate over Proposed RMA Changes
Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
The NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers has called for more public consultation and debate over government’s proposed changes to the Resource Management Act. Recently Minister for the Environment Nick Smith in a letter to the South Island newspaper ... More >>
Ministers Need to Intervene in Horizon’s Disdain for Public
Monday, 19 September 2016, 10:16 am | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Government ministers such as Ministers for Local Government, Environment and Conservation need to step in on the controversial issue of Horizon’s Regional One Plan, says a nation-wide trout anglers’ organisation. More >>
Lethargy and Lack of Vigilance Evident in Lake Slime
Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
The outbreak in Lake Wanaka of “lake snow” a still-water relation to didymo which reportedly had invaded South Island rivers for several years to date, has shown an alarming lack of vigilance and a lethargy by authorities says a national trout fishing ... More >>
IrrigationNZ - Chief Executive Lacks Environmental Awareness
Thursday, 23 June 2016, 3:21 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers, a leading angling and freshwater advocacy organisation, has lambasted Andrew Curtis of IrrigationNZ accusing him of a ‘profit before the environment mentality’. More >>
Farming Leaders Have Responsibility to Public’s Rivers too
Monday, 20 June 2016, 10:37 am | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
Farming organisations, self-interest irrigation lobbyists, plus the Minister of Primary Industries are being irresponsible towards the crisis of New Zealand’s depleted and degraded rivers and streams says a national trout fishing advocacy. More >>
Government’s "Double Whammy” to Public over Pollution
Thursday, 2 June 2016, 1:33 pm | New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers
A national trout fishing advocacy organisation has condemned the National Government’s budget announcement of money to remedy polluted rivers as “double dipping” into the public purse. In the recent 2016 budget, $100M was allocated for the Freshwater ... More >>
