Thirty years after the movie thriller ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ hit the silver screen “sQuba” is the first car that can actually ‘fly’ under water.

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Date: Tuesday February 19, 2008
Mysterious creatures from the deep have been discovered in waters off the east Antarctic land mass.

These glassy tunicates were discovered thousands of metres under the sea.
Scientists from around the world cruised waters in three ships and trawled at depths of 2,000 metres.
Voyage Leader Dr Martin Riddle says during 20 days of [...]

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Public release date: 15 February 2008
Boston MA: Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space.
As a result of scientific studies showing that bottom trawling kills vast numbers of corals, sponges, fishes and other [...]

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14 February 2008
Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today congratulated the rock lobster (crayfish) industry in the lower North Island after they announced their intention to voluntarily reduce their catch for the coming season.

The CRA4 Rock Lobster Industry has agreed not to fish around 60 percent of their annual catch entitlement for the new fishing season starting [...]

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Thursday, 14 February 2008, 2:59 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government
Minister Jim Anderton and Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick have today announced the next step in protecting New Zealand’s marine environment.

The country has been divided into 14 coastal regions to create a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that reflect the diversity of New Zealand’s marine environment. [...]

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