Search

The Government must take its head out of the water and urgently act to protect New Zealand’s recreational fisheries, before our fishing way of life is lost. Around 600,000 people fish each year in New Zealand, but this pastime is under threat with increases in New Zealand’s population and tourism numbers and increasing competition with commercial fishers for limited fisheries resources. Read more

Dr Randall Bess discusses his latest report The Future Catch on Newstalk ZB.  Read more

Originally published in The Fishing Paper and Hunting News - July 2017. Read more

Wellington (31 May 2017): Western Australia shows what is possible when competing fishing sectors collaborate in fisheries management, say delegates from across New Zealand’s fishing sectors. The New Zealand Initiative and the US-based Environmental Defense Fund last week led a group of New Zealanders involved in the recreational, commercial and customary fishing sectors to learn from Western Australia’s example. Read more

The Overseas Catch: The state of recreational fisheries management abroad author, Dr Randall Bess, discusses his overseas research trip. He travelled to the Gulf of Mexico, northern California, British Columbia and Western Australia to learn more about how these locations manage their recreational fisheries - what worked well, what didn't and what can New Zealand learn? Read more