Overfishing and kina boom make crayfish weakest link in food chain
Crayfish fishing around our coastlines is thought to be triggering a damaging sequence of effects that also threatens the species' infants.
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Free home with $10m view
His farm-registered SUV and makeshift lean-to with rudimentary kitchen shelves has occupied a prime corner of Auckland's waterfront for more than a year.
Japan experts show Kiwis how it's done
It is not often you come across a totally new style of fishing, particularly one which outfishes everything you thought you knew. Like most innovations in the world of snapper fishing this came from Japan.
Target tasty dory for an easy bite
There have been some bright spots on the fishing scene, with occasional bags of nice snapper reported.
Shark washed ashore trapped in net
A shark, more than two metres long and believed to be a bronze whaler, washed ashore on Auckland's Browns Bay beach just after midday today.
Huge fish a record for NZ woman
No woman in New Zealand has caught a bigger fish than the giant Pacific bluefin tuna that Aucklander Donna Pascoe reeled in this week
Big kings reign in fight at Nationals
Kingfish are the prime target at present, with mega-sized models up to 40kg coming from the top of the Coromandel Peninsula at spots like Square Top Island.
Small fry's big catch
Witnesses and club officials are verifying a Northland 8-year-old's feat of landing a marlin 10 times his own weight.
Fishers following rules over the holiday period
Northland fisheries officers say they have seen little illegal fishing over the holiday period.
Pair snapped fishing in marine reserve
Two Auckland holidaymakers suspected of illegally fishing inside a Northland marine reserve could face charges.
Cameras to prevent dumping of fish
New technology designed to prevent fish dumping by the country's commercial fishing fleet will be unveiled today.
The one that didn't get away
Before Michelle Goodhew started catching babies, she was catching fish.
Geoff Thomas: Snapper comp with a difference
A unique fishing contest next week is an opportunity for families to go fishing and win a prize.
Geoff Thomas: Fickle snapper prove elusive in gulf
The gannets set their sharp wings like those on a jet plane.
Popular race attracts wide variety of sailors and craft
At just 119 nautical miles, next weekend's Coastal Classic Yacht Race is far from being New Zealand's longest coastal race.
Geoff Thomas: Use current to get big snapper
When fishing in places like the Rangitoto Channel, Tauranga Harbour or any harbour with strong currents, the bigger snapper hang back from the boat.
Geoff Thomas: Change to snapper rules stupid and unnecessary
The changes to the recreational snapper fishery on the east coast of the North Island will result in more fish being killed, and will not solve the perceived problem of diminishing fish stocks.
Trout fishing season begins
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.
Mandy Kupenga: Quota won't raise snapper stocks
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.
Editorial: Fishers must hold on to united voice
The willingness of fishing folk to talk up their difficulties arguably outstrips their enthusiasm for whoppers about the ones that get away.