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

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.

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.

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

As any manufacturer knows, it is a risky business messing with success. Popular products got that way for a reason and changing them, however slightly, can be fraught.

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.

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.

Cuts to the 4500-tonne total allowable commercial catch in the Snapper 1 fishery will be on the table if a Labour Government is elected.

A fishy stunt in Parliament by Labour leader David Shearer appeared to backfire after it spawned a round of dead fish jokes.

A winter of discontent in heartland National Party territory has nothing to do with the GCSB bill, as John Key likes to point out

New Zealand's largest iwi, Ngapuhi, has thrown its weight behind a campaign to protect the snapper bag limit of recreational anglers.