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Defending our Oceans

Hub | July 30, 2010 at 16:49

Defending our Oceans: Seen from space the Earth is covered in a blue mantle. It is a planet on which the continents are dwarfed by the oceans surrounding them and the immensity of the marine realm.

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Sign the petition for a global network of marine reserves

Greenpeace welcomes Hoki and Orange Roughy cuts, but more needed.

Press release | September 25, 2007 at 5:29

Greenpeace welcomed cuts to hoki and orange roughy quota announced by Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today, but warned that wider fisheries closures and more effective management measures are needed to safeguard stocks and marine habitats in the...

New Zealand Orange Roughy

Publication | September 23, 2010 at 18:14

Orange roughy fisheries are a testament to unsustainable fishing. The species is long-lived, slow growing and late maturing, making it extremely vulnerable to overfishing. In New Zealand, where most of the catches are now taken, the orange roughy...

Canadian supermarket chains say 'no' to orange roughy as NZ fishery re-opened

Press release | September 27, 2010 at 14:14

None of Canada’s major supermarket chains will be selling orange roughy after leading retailers dropped the species due to sustainability concerns, Greenpeace reports.

NZ increasing bottom trawled fish limits despite international rejection

Press release | July 29, 2010 at 15:26

Greenpeace says a plan to increase the catch limits of several bottom trawled New Zealand fish species highlights how out of touch the Ministry of Fisheries is with international markets.

Retailer rejection of orange roughy

Publication | August 11, 2010 at 15:40

Orange roughy fisheries are a testament to unsustainable fishing.

Greenpeace Red Fish List launched in New Zealand

Feature story | August 10, 2008 at 0:00

Today Greenpeace launched the New Zealand Red Fish List – a guide to help consumers avoid buying fish that comes from the most unsustainable fisheries.

NZ to increase catch of critically endangered bluefin tuna

Feature story | January 27, 2010 at 0:00

New Zealand’s seafood industry and Ministry of Fisheries would like everyone to believe that NZ's fisheries are well managed and sustainable. Unfortunately that's not true. Many of our commercial fisheries still rely on bottom trawling, one of...

World Watch Report: Oceans in Peril

Feature story | September 19, 2007 at 23:06

Our planet's oceans are in deep, deep, peril, says a new report from Greenpeace and the World Watch Institute. The only road to recovery may be to declare 40 percent of the world's oceans off-limits to human exploitation to ensure the...

Seafood boss has fishy view on bottom trawling

Blog entry by Karli Thomas | October 27, 2010

The Seafood Industry Association's boss, Peter Bodeker is right on one thing: Good reputations are hard to earn and easy to lose. And it's for exactly that reason that the fishing industry should be appalled at the environmental...

Second message to Foodtown

Blog entry by Phil | August 12, 2009

I love it when a plan comes together. Today we stepped up the pressure on Foodtown to get serious about putting in place a policy that would ensure it will only sell truly sustainable seafood. We’ve just returned from the Quay St...

NZ fishing industry does us a disservice

Blog entry by Karli | June 17, 2009

Sustainable pole and line tuna available in supermarkets in the UK. Currently the main New Zealand retailers have no policies in place to ensure the seafood they sell is sustainable, and many species fished and sold here are not...

Talking fish and wailing whales

Blog entry by Phil | July 9, 2010

Life in the ocean is not as serene as it seems according to two news reports this week. A marine scientist at Auckland university, who has been eavesdropping on fish says he has proof that they “talk” to each other. Meanwhile, in...

I see red, I see red, I see red

Blog entry by Nick | June 20, 2008

No it's not a Split Enz song it's a new international fish red list. In a new report , Greenpeace has shown that in the U.S., most supermarkets purchase seafood with little consideration of where it came from, how it was caught, or...

Fish jumping ship

Blog entry by Phil | May 28, 2010

The vast majority of the world’s internationally traded seafood moves by sea.  Many unfortunate fish find themselves ripped out of the ocean only to be gutted, frozen, shoveled into containers, and sent plowing across the top of it in...

A haul of bottom trawled orange roughy

Image | June 9, 2004 at 1:00

TASMAN SEA: A haul of orange roughy is in a bottom trawl net.

Foodtown costing us our oceans

Video | August 9, 2009 at 8:42

Greenpeace activists stopped a fishing vessel leaving Auckland harbour, New Zealand, this afternoon and used it to send a message calling on the Foodtown supermarket chain to stop selling orange roughy and to implement a sustainable seafood...

Taking the sustainability message to Foodtown

Video | August 11, 2009 at 10:37

Greenpeace hung a seven metre banner on the downtown Auckland Foodtown supermarket which read 'Costing our Oceans? Alongside, the mascot for the Greenpeace Save our Seas campaign, Sad Fish, hangs in a bottom trawl net. The message highlighted...

Greenpeace activists atop the Orange Roughy Management Company headquaters

Image | May 28, 2004 at 1:00

Greenpeace activists atop the Orange Roughy Management Company headquaters in Nelson, New Zealand holding a banner that reads: The Orange Roughy Management Company kills more than fish. Greenpeace had been conducting a peaceful protest about the...

The Motueka Choir alongside Greenpeace activists in front of the Orange Roughy...

Image | May 28, 2004 at 1:00

The Motueka Choir alongside Greenpeace activists are 'caught' beneath a large fishing net that Greenpeace hung over the Orange Roughy Management Company headquarters in Nelson today. Greenpeace had been conducting a peaceful protest about the...

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