These New Zealand snapper, sold in United States supermarkets and around the world, look tiny but may just be legal.

It has 60 vacant rental berths of a size once prized by small keel boat owners.

Editorial: It's time recreational fishers thought about the sustainability of snapper stock, as the species' number around the North Island continues to dwindle.

A cruise industry consultant says New Zealand risks missing out on most of the boom in the sector by not giving passengers what they want.

West Auckland surf lifeguards, who did not know their quad bikes were stolen until they responded to an emergency call, have been offered replacements on loan.

Ambitious plans to create a $150 million world-class marine industry precinct at Hobsonville near a vast new housing estate have met with a limp reception.

A push is being made for Cape Kidnappers beach warning signs to be done in several languages in an attempt to avoid a repeat of a Friday night rescue from a beach isolated by the rising tide.

The Department of Conservation (DoC) is on the look-out again for migrating southern right whales and it wants your help.

Female seahorses have got this pregnancy caper worked out. They place their eggs, sometimes hundreds or thousands, into a special pouch in the male's stomach and let him do all the hard work while they go about their business unencumbered by kids.

Severe weather which hit the Bay of Plenty over the weekend, including swells of up to four metres at Astrolabe Reef, have caused the release of plastic beads from a damaged container in the sunken stern of the Rena.