A river and trout fishers’ advocacy concern at chemicals entering the public’s rivers and streams, has been heightened by government’s much vaunted fresh-water reforms ignoring a number of them. The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers (NZFFA) has given … Continue reading
The NZ Sport Fishing Council has a chief executive officer with the appointment of Steven Stanford. A press release from the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council said Steven Sanford has an extensive history in Business Management with particularly strong skills in Business … Continue reading
by Tony Orman In the local body election in Marlborough climate change was a hot topic at candidate meetings. Probably it was elsewhere. I strongly suspect the world has a major problem, but in the much bigger picture of the … Continue reading
Seventy percent of New Zealanders want the commercial catch for tarakihi cut dramatically in order to restore stocks. A survey conducted by Horizon Research for national fishing advocacy Legasea found 70percent want a cut of between 40percent and 60percent to help … Continue reading
Guest Post – an Opinion contribution by Tony Orman A major new study on North American bird populations appeared in the journal Science recently. It included detail on research, led by Ken Rosenberg, a conservation scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, that … Continue reading
