Monthly Archives: June 2020

 by Dr Peter Trolove, President NZ Federation Freshwater Anglers The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers will be watching with a keen and alert interest the targeted ministerial review of Fish and Game New Zealand and regional Fish and Game … Continue reading →

An Otago rural landowner says a penalty for a poacher who decapitated a stag on his land will send “one hell of a message” to the community wrote journalist Rob Kidd of the “Otago Daily Times.,” in “Rural Life” 13 … Continue reading →

Back in 2016, the late Bill Benfield, then co-chairman of CORANZ, was interviewed about OSPRI-formerly the Animal Health Board – whose designated task is to make New Zealand cattle and deer herds, Tb free. His excellent, perceptive views based n … Continue reading →

Book Review:-  Reviewed by Tony Orman. This book is timely on two accounts in view of the declining democracy that has taken place under the last two governments – not forgetting of course, there is an election looming later this year.  … Continue reading →

Gary Mauser featured in a recent CORANZ posting on reports of the failure of a Canadian firearm programme Gary Mauser, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute, is Professor Emeritus at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. He received … Continue reading →

Opinion Piece by Rex N. Gibson The Current Status. New Zealand Fish and Game has operated to serve the interests of freshwater sports-fish anglers and game bird shooters, in its present form, since 1990. It replaced a national network of … Continue reading →

Fish & Game New Zealand has welcomed the review announced by the Conservation Minister Eugnie Sage, says New Zealand Fish and Game Council Chair Paul Shortis. “The Minister of Conservation has announced an independent review of Fish and Game, and … Continue reading →

Opinion by Dr Lynley Tulloch If there has been one message that was repeatedly driven home during the various stages of lockdown it was this – be kind. However, it would seem that ‘kindness’ did not cross the species barrier … Continue reading →

by Michelle Terry TVOne news tonight featured coverage that inhumane treatment of so-called pest animals, including rats and cats, is concerning the authorities including the Society for the Protection of Animals (SPCA). Torture and inhumane drownings where animals suffer is … Continue reading →

Animal welfare advocates have major concerns about a disturbing trend in New Zealand in which people are maltreating and torturing pests in the name of conservation writes Alison Pugh of television One News.  One NEWS  obtained a video posted to … Continue reading →

The Government’s long anticipated action plan for healthy waterways, released on 28 May 2020, failed to deal with the deteriorated state the public’s rivers and streams and general water resource says the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers. Federation president … Continue reading →

By Tony Orman Minute quantities of ‘free chlorine residuals’ are poisonous to trout and aquatic life and it is unsafe to discharge chlorinated water into a river at any concentration says a study done 40 years ago. The study was done in 1971 and entitled … Continue reading →

An opinion by Neil Hayes QSM CEnv PhD FRSA   In 2012, six years after lead shot was banned for duck shooting in 12 gauge shotguns, I wrote an article for “NZ Guns and Hunting” about the demise of mallard … Continue reading →

An Opinion by Dave Witherow There is nothing  wrong with the existing Fish & Game structure, and no valid reason for radical change Recent reports of trouble within Fish & Game conform to a standard script which surfaces about once … Continue reading →

Opinion by Rex Gibson Both the Labour, NZ First and Green Parties campaigned in the last election, on promises to clean up New Zealand’s waterways. However disappointingly, the latest announcements are as close to a National party approach as you … Continue reading →