New Zealand's highest-profile fishery remains well below its sustainability target and a fight is looming over who should bear the brunt of restrictions - recreational fishers or the $50 million commercial sector.
Otago commercial fishermen have reacted with anger to a proposal to extend a ban on set-net fishing around the Otago Peninsula to help preserve yellow-eyed penguin colonies.
After battling a huge swordfish to the surface on his trusty hand-line out off the coast of Northland, New Zealand, Matt Watson finds himself in a race with a gigantic Mako shark to secure his prize catch and get it aboard his little boat in one piece. courtesy TheFishingShow/ITM Fishing Show
Maritime New Zealand says it is working with the fishing industry to develop new safety systems that may make wearing lifejackets compulsory when crossing bars such as the dangerous Grey River.
Environmental columnist Sam Judd checks out the proposed controversial changes to areas for commercial harvesting for paua.
Sam Judd checks out freefishheads.co.nz - a website devoted to finding a grateful home for what is otherwise considered waste from the sea.
Barratt says Sanford is on track to land about $25 million worth of the fish in this New Zealand season.
Commercial fishermen are being blamed for dead marlin found floating off the Manukau Harbour.
Anglers are catching a range of fish species rarely seen along the Western Bay coastline, while others are disappearing.
Sharks are being slaughtered at an unsustainable rate, with a new study showing 100 million are killed a year.
The navy may not be able to monitor illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean because its ships are not up to the task.
Conservationists say our lack of protection measures for sharks is a source of global embarrassment but the industry argues the debate is clouded by emotion.
There could be some fish hooks in the way prizes are allocated in future but the organisers of the southern hemisphere's biggest snapper contest say it will definitely be held again next year.
Our "clean, green" image will be made or destroyed, depending on how we respond to one key indicator, writes Christine Rose - the extinction, or salvation, of Maui's dolphins.
An expedition to one of the deepest ocean trenches has discovered a new species of fish and another not previously caught in the southwest Pacific.
A New Zealand environmental activist says fishing boats off the coast of Canterbury are sneaking into a mammal sanctuary at night and fishing illegally.
New Zealand fishing company Sanford has been fined $2.27 million for dumping oil waste from its Tuna fishing vessel