New technology designed to prevent fish dumping by the country's commercial fishing fleet will be unveiled today.
On-board surveillance cameras are to be made mandatory by October 2015 under changes to the regulation of the Snapper 1 fishery.
The technology that will be used to monitor the on-board activities of fishermen will be showcased by the Ministry of Fisheries today at the Commercial Wharf in the Wynyard Quarter.
Media have been invited to a briefing on board Aotearoa Fisheries' vessel Corinthian.
The monitoring programme - which will see 25 per cent of the trawl fleet have cameras or observers on board by December 1, rising to 50 per cent by October 1, 2014 and 100 per cent by October 1, 2015 - is part of a range of initiatives announced by the Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy in September.