New technology designed to prevent fish dumping by the country's commercial fishing fleet will be unveiled today.

Before Michelle Goodhew started catching babies, she was catching fish.

A unique fishing contest next week is an opportunity for families to go fishing and win a prize.

The gannets set their sharp wings like those on a jet plane.

At just 119 nautical miles, next weekend's Coastal Classic Yacht Race is far from being New Zealand's longest coastal race.

When fishing in places like the Rangitoto Channel, Tauranga Harbour or any harbour with strong currents, the bigger snapper hang back from the boat.

Hundreds of anglers took to the waters of Lake Tarawera near Rotorua today for the opening of the 2013 trout fishing season. Beautiful weather greeted fisherman as they ventured out onto the lake before sunrise to take their positions.

Kiwis love to fish. We do it for recreation, to put some sanity back into our busy lives and to take home a modest, healthy feed for our family.

The willingness of fishing folk to talk up their difficulties arguably outstrips their enthusiasm for whoppers about the ones that get away.

Recreational fishers say they are the losers - despite winning the "rights" to all of a 500 tonne increase in the total allowable snapper catch.

Snapper bag limits in the country's most popular fishery will be reduced from nine to seven, and the minimum legal size increased from 27cms to 30cms from April 1.

Tauranga angler Kevin Baker can tell you - and it doesn't involve filleting or scoffing the whopper tuna he scooped at the weekend.

A multi-language campaign to get West Auckland rock fishers to wear lifejackets is struggling to make headway against an undercurrent of risky behaviour.

Environmental columnist Sam Judd takes a look at the disastrous consequences of the Japan earthquake on our food chain.

The controversy over proposals to cut recreational snapper fishing has not affected the actual fishing.

The commercial fishing industry has accused recreational fishers of overfishing and depleting snapper stocks.

Consumers of fish who do not take pleasure in the kill should be considered in debate too.

Proposed cuts to snapper limits could have widespread adverse effects - to the New Zealand marine industry and its exports, to provincial towns and some of our poorest communities.

The snapper comparison set a lovely trap for Labour leader David Shearer, who obliged by falling into it, writes Claire Trevett.

The indication that individual snapper have been growing more slowly over the past 15 years is a sign that all is not well, Raewyn Pearl.

There is no system of recording just how many snapper are not landed because commercial fishers are over their quota, writes Bill Hohepa.