Editorial: Two recent events ought to have injected some urgency into the quest for cleaner, fairer and better use of New Zealand's most valuable resource, water.

An attempt by an airline passenger to bring two crates of fresh mangoes into NZ could have had dire consequences if the fruit reached our orchards, says border security.

An important fertiliser aid has been culled from farmers' chemical shopping lists after it turned up in milk products destined for human consumption.

A snake which made its way into New Zealand from Vanuatu has been intercepted at a Manukau scrap yard.

Kiwi fish are causing a stink overseas. At the heart of the scandal is the snoek - thyrsites atun - known here as barracouta. South Africa's City Press newspaper reported Kiwi barracouta was being sold in that country as snoek.

An Australian ship detained at Wellington's port this week was found to be "crawling with beetles" that had the potential to harm local insect species.

A woman has had her food caravan and cooking equipment seized after allegedly selling illegal fish and chips.

As valuable to marine life as it is prized by humans, the Hauraki Gulf is in decline. Though solutions seem as elusive as the gulf's fish stocks, a groundswell is building for collaboration.