Meet Sad Fish. He’s a little on the rotund side and a tad more furry than most other fish but he’s fronting the new seafood campaign here in New Zealand and we’re glad to have him on our side.
On Sunday over at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, along with Sad Fish, we launched the new Greenpeace Red Fish List - a handy little wallet sized guide designed to help you avoid buying the most unsustainable seafood.
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New Zealand’s Hector and Maui dolphins – the smallest and rarest dolphins in the world - are critically endangered.
In order to help protect the dolphins, zoologist Gemma McGrath founded Music 4 Maui’s in October 2007. The project fuses NZ music with marine conservation, and aims to both raise awareness of the dolphin’s plight, as well as raise funds to help them.
Gemma convinced a selection of talented kiwi musicians to donate songs for the dolphins, building up the Music 4 Maui’s album. The first compilation titled ’Songs to save a species’ was released on June 16th and includes artists such as Minuit, The Black Seeds, Sola Rosa and Ariana Tikao. Music reaches people and talks to their spirit, so these songs about the ocean and the dolphins, the fishing industry and extinction are good means to promote positive changes. Read more »
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 how fish stocks are fairing.
The world’s oceans are often seen as containing a limitless source of food. However, as vast as they are they are they are not an inexhaustible resource, and after years of overfishing, fish stocks are crashing one after the other. Our fishing fleets have gone further and further afield and trawled to deeper and deeper depths and the fish are literally running out. Read more »
As climate change highlights new challenges facing businesses, one practice has been attracting attention, and that is the strange fishing trade going on between New Zealand and China.
Fishing industry heavyweights such as Talley’s Group Limited ship gutted fish to China for thawing, processing and re-chilling, only to ship it back to New Zealand for sale. In a recent meeting in Parliament, the Green Party expressed its concern to the Minister for Economic Development, Pete Hodgson that this ‘bizarre situation’ undermines both the prime minister ’s goal of carbon neutrality and kiwi workers ’ jobs.
It is a bizarre situation indeed, although the Ministry claims that virtually no seafood is imported back from China, whereas China makes up about 10 percent of New Zealand’s export market. Read more »
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