Latest from Ministry for Primary Industries

'Unfair but must be obeyed'

Recreational fishers are waking up this morning to tighter daily limits for snapper caught off the upper North Island's east coast, including the Hauraki Gulf.

Popular fish thrown a longer lifeline

Snapper fishers will need to lengthen their rulers and return more fish to the sea from Tuesday as measures to restore the country's most popular fishery take effect.

Lack of rain a 'serious concern'

Oamaru cheese recalled over listeria scare

Baby milk firms face China ban

NZ's booming infant formula industry fears Chinese regulatory changes could block smaller operators from doing business in the world's most lucrative and fastest-growing baby milk market.

Starving cows case set to last three weeks

Xmas tree intercepted by border staff

Surprised border officials have intercepted a live Christmas tree, complete with pot of soil, sent by post from the UK.

Botulism report: Better tracking needed

Strengthening systems to track dairy products through ever-lengthening domestic and international supply chains will be one of the key areas of work following the latest report on the Fonterra botulism scare.

Scorpion smuggler sentenced

An Australian man who smuggled live scorpions into the country has been fined more than $10,000.

New head of Ministry for Primary Industries named

NZ rot apples released into Chinese market

Cow drowns in effluent on hellish trip

Two dairy farmers, a stock agent and a trucking company have been prosecuted for putting 25 cows through a hellish trip to the slaughterhouse.

Illegal sulphites triggered asthma attack

One person has suffered an asthma attack after consuming fresh meat that illegally contained sulphites, the Ministry for Primary Industries has revealed.

Rot find halts NZ China apple exports

New Zealand has halted all apple exports to China for the rest of the season after rot was found in several batches at the Chinese border.

MPI approves incursion programme after spillage

Ministry for Primary Industries officials have approved an incursion programme in mid-Canterbury following a spillage of one of Europe's most invasive arable weeds - black grass - found in a consignment of imported fescue seed.

Second leak found in Nelson sewer main

Foreign bug found in tobacco

Raw sewage flows onto Nelson mudflats