The Government is campaigning to have two North Korean ships caught illegally fishing in a protected area off Antarctica blacklisted.

Department of Conservation (DOC) officials have seized two nets and about 80 fish following reports of commercial fishing in a marine reserve in Auckland.

A New Zealand-based Tongan man who lost friends in the Princess Ashika ferry tragedy in Tonga says the sentences handed to three of the men found guilty over the incident are a joke.

Four men and a shipping company found guilty of 30 charges relating to the 2009 sinking of the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika, in which 74 people died, will be sentenced today.

The Government says Petrobras is following DOC guidelines to minimise the disturbance to marine mammals while it looks for oil off the East Cape.

Firm's clothes are worn on some of the most luxurious vessels afloat.

An invasion of tropical fish previously unseen in New Zealand waters could be an effect of global warming, a marine expert says.

Amid cries of racism and snipes between the Maori Party and its former colleague Hone Harawira, the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill was passed yesterday.

Kate Roff submerges off the coast of Thailand to meet a local celebrity.

NZ-developed mounting device is already selling in Australian stores.