Apart from game fishing for marlin and tuna, most people have struggled to catch fish everywhere from the Bay of Plenty to Northland in the past two weeks.

Sharks are providing a lot of action, and entertainment, around harbours and some are close to where people are swimming and boating.

When the weather is kind, the Hauraki Gulf teems with runabouts filled with fishers hoping for a catch.

The Government's proposals for revamping our marine protection legislation are long overdue. It is now 45 years since the Marine Reserves Act 1971 came into force, writes Raewyn Peart.

If commercial fishing is prohibited inside the boundaries of Recreational Fishing Parks, the displaced fishing effort will simply increase pressure on fish stocks outside the park boundaries, writes Jeremy Helson.

Hopefully the creation of these parks may shift the debate from who should get what, to what is holding back the fisheries to be more abundant, writes Katherine Short.

Details of a controversial new marine park for recreational fishing that will banish commercial operators from the inner Hauraki Gulf will be released today.

Aotearoa Fisheries reported a 27 per cent decline in annual profit on reduced earnings from its half-stake in Sealord Group.

Fishery officers have raided properties in the Bay of Plenty after a 12-month investigation into the black market sale of paua and kina.

An investigation has been launched after a commercial fishing skipper reported losing a 750kg catch off the west coast of Coromandel this morning.

Snapper can be found pretty much everywhere at the moment, and as always the key is to work the tides.

Authorities have reeled a commercial fisherman illegally flogging off crayfish to his mates.

A Pacific fisheries meeting is being urged to consider a ban on vessels transferring their catch to other ships at sea, saying it encourages illegal fishing.

The BirdLife Marine Programme’s work to reduce seabird bycatch in high seas fisheries will be familiar to followers of our efforts to save several albatross species from extinction. Source: Birdlife International/YouTube www.birdlife.org/marine

The country's largest listed fishing group is quitting its under-performing Pacific tuna business and selling the fleet.

If you had to pick one month of the year that is bad for fishing, August would have to take the prize.

Operating practices aboard a Korean fishing vessel contributed to the death of an Indonesian crewman in New Zealand waters, a coroner has ruled.

Prosecutions against those behind fishing vessels that tangled with the Royal NZ Navy over summer have been hailed as a "giant step forward" by Foreign Minister Murray McCully.

Prosecutions against illegal fishers who tangled with the New Zealand navy have been hailed as a “giant step forward” by Foreign Minister Murray McCully.