Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Ali Perkins
By TIM DONOGHUE – The Dominion Post Last updated 05:00 08/06/2010 Hundreds of convictions involving people arrested in undercover Fisheries Ministry paua sale operations since 1996 could be overturned following a High Court decision involving a major Wellington paua poaching bust. High Court judge Ailsa Duffy issued a May 18 decision which found the law [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2010 by Ali Perkins
Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by Ali Perkins
By Matt Walker Editor, Earth News Fish are being threatened by rising levels of man-made noise pollution. So say scientists who have reviewed the impact on fish species around the world of noises made by oil and gas rigs, ships, boats and sonar. Rather than live in a silent world, most fish hear well and [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2010 by Ali Perkins
Buyers beware, if you’ve bought a fish called Basa from the supermarket, it was probably catfish from the polluted Mekong Delta. In the last year nearly 300,000kgs of frozen Vietnamese catfish was imported, much of it being sold at Countdown, Woolworths, and Foodtown. At half the price of New Zealand fish, the Basa has been [...]
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