{"id":1,"date":"2025-02-12T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-04-22T01:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T01:13:18","slug":"sealord-fishing-reforms-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/2025\/02\/12\/sealord-fishing-reforms-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sealord Supports Fishing Industry Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand\u2019s largest seafood business, Sealord Group, welcomes the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries\u2019 announced proposal to reform the outdated Fisheries Act.<\/p>\n\n

Sealord Group CEO Doug Paulin, who is part of the Seafood Industry Forum, says the proposed changes are a good start to bringing a more up-to-date framework that reflects the increase in reporting technology as well as  helping provide a more responsive and agile fisheries management system.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThese proposed changes will mean that we can respond to the science about the stocks of various fish species in a more effective and efficient way, ultimately ensuring more sustainable fisheries.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cNew Zealand is renowned for its world class fisheries management system, but the thing that lets us down is the time it takes to implement changes to the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for the year.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe need to be responsive to the science, that allows the catch for a particular species to either be reduced or increased.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe understand the need for transparency and consistency, and there are a number of management tools in place to ensure this, however the current regime is unnecessarily cumbersome and inflexible.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n\n

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Sealord Resources Manager and Scientist Charles Heaphy says work to monitor the health of fish stocks includes Management Strategy evaluations, harvest control rules and fishery independent measures of resource abundance. Before any changes are recommended by the fisheries scientists, the effect on habitat and protected species is assessed.<\/p>

\u201cWe have all of this excellent work happening, but the current rules work against best practice fisheries management. Delays in the process mean we can\u2019t be flexible or adaptive, and this is particularly important in relation to climate change \u2013 that is what all the research points to.\u201d<\/p>

In addition to multi-year TAC adjustments, Doug says other changes outlined in the proposal are also positive.<\/p>

\u201cWe support the changes to landings and discards, and the removal of redundant regulations, among other proposals, and we will certainly be submitting in support. However, we would like to see more done to reduce compliance costs that place a heavy burden on our company and the wider sector,\u201d he says.<\/p>

Sealord Group paid $7.5m in Fisheries and Conservation levies to the Ministry for Primary Industries in the last financial year to cover observers, fisheries research, compliance, and cameras, which are not on any Sealord vessel due to being part of the deepwater fleet.<\/p>

\u201cExcessive compliance costs are limiting our ability to invest in our company and our people, and ultimately impacting our and the wider sector\u2019s opportunity to contribute to economic growth.\u201d<\/p>

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