Dead fish, most of them snapper, have washed up on beaches in one of the most beautiful and popular holiday spots in the country.

Labour says it has not taken a position on whether to back the United States proposal for a large reserve in the Antarctic's Ross Sea.

A range of factors other than the fishery could be responsible for toothfish changes in catch rates at McMurdo, writes David Middleton.

A Greenpeace spoof of a Sealord advertisement has brought an angry reaction from Labour MP Shane Jones, who says it's anti-worker and duplicitous towards Maori.

Greenpeace has made a spoof of Sealord's TV ad over what they claim will "reveal the truth beneath the public relations" over the sustainability of the fishing stocks.

NZ has brushed aside a US offer of cooperation over the establishment of a reserve which would protect the Antarctic Toothfish in the Ross Sea and submitted its own more conservative proposal.

The great-great-great-granddaughter of the man who discovered the Ross Sea says the NZ Government is failing to protect one of the world's last intact marine ecosystems.