New data from the 2024–25 fishing year shows 67 marine mammals were killed by commercial fishing vessels inside New Zealand’s marine mammal sanctuaries - areas created under law specifically for their protection.

The 2025-26 breeding season for tara iti/New Zealand fairy tern has delivered genuine cause for optimism, with 11 chicks fledging successfully despite a challenging summer of predation pressure, wild weather, and anxious moments.

Minister Shane Jones has proposed, massive, sweeping legislative changes to fisheries legislation, including removing minimum fish size limits for commercial fishers, impacting important, community sustaining species such as snapper and kingfish.