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FEATURES OPINION REGULARS 16 Cover story: Sealord’s 32 Debate before it’s 21 Nuts and bolts: new vessel too late Automated fish factory on the way 26 Antarctic artist’s passion 34 Event: Timaru exhibition 30 Sanford head questioned a hit 38 QMS still rankles after 36 Salt of the ocean: Five 30 years generations of fishing 43 Recipe: Lemon panko crusted fish

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Postal Address: PO Box 297 Wellington 6140 In this issue New Zealand

Physical Address: Level 6 Eagle Technology House Twenty years ago this magazine’s cover story was devoted to a new Sealord 135 Victoria Street trawler, the 66 metre $28 million Rehua, as it headed for Nelson from Norway. Wellington 6011 History is repeating. Our cover story this month is devoted to another new Phone: +64 (0)4 385 4005 Sealord trawler, an 81.75m, $70 million vessel that is still under construction in www.seafoodnewzealand.org.nz Norway and yet to be named. In 1997 the Rehua was described in these pages as “certainly the most modern and technologically advanced factory trawler on earth”. Similar things can be said about the new purchase which, like the Rehua, was ISSN 1172-4633 designed specifically for the New Zealand deepwater fishery and will carry much innovative machinery and technology. Editorial enquiries: Email: [email protected] Such an addition to the New Zealand fleet is not only a demonstration of Sealord’s commitment to the seafood industry. It is also a clear vote of Advertising enquiries: confidence in the way the country’s fisheries are being sustainably managed. Karen Olver No more powerful signal could be sent to those who continue to knock our Phone: +64 (0)4 802 1513 industry in the face of ample evidence that fishermen and fishing companies [email protected] are determined to see the New Zealand seafood resource managed in such Subscriptions: a way that it continues to provide food, jobs and profits not just for this Seafood New Zealand is published for the generation, but for generations to come. New Zealand seafood industry. It is also Sealord’s investment comes at a time when the industry has got together available on subscription in New Zealand and to make a Promise New Zealand public, through television and social media, overseas. Subscription rates are available on of its determination to ensure the sustainable future of our precious ocean request. Seafood New Zealand is produced bi- resources. It forms a perfect complement to that message. monthly (six issues per annum). There is a lot more to read about in this issue, from stories about new Your Say: products to a frank question and answer session with Sanford’s award-winning Contributions of a nature relevant to the chief executive, Volker Kuntzsch, and a catch-up with outspoken former West seafood industry are welcomed and industry Coast commercial fisherman Ron Pearson, who tackled the Government over participants are encouraged to contribute. ITQs in the 1980s, and still holds strong views on everything to do with the Letters to the Editor should be signed and carry industry. the writers’ full names and addresses. Former deepsea skipper Sean Garwood has successfully made the

General: transition to fulltime artist and is soon to see further recognition of his work The reproduction of articles and materials with a series of stamps being issued by New Zealand Post and a public published in Seafood New Zealand, in whole exhibition of his paintings from Antarctica. A portfolio of his stunning or in part, is permitted provided the source and paintings, each taking a month to six weeks of painstaking work, begins on author(s), as applicable, are acknowledged. page 26. However, all photographic material is copyright You’ll also find the story of 76-year-old Lloyd TeNgaio, who’s in his 52nd and written permission is required to reproduce year with the same seafood company. His picture on page 35 will tell you how it in any shape or form. Articles and information much he still loves his job. printed in Seafood New Zealand do not necessarily reflect the opinions or formal position of Seafood New Zealand Ltd unless otherwise indicated.

All material published in Seafood New Zealand is done so with all due care as regards accuracy and factual content. The publishers and editorial Tim Pankhurst staff, however, cannot accept responsibility Chief Executive for any inadvertent errors and omissions that may occur.

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Baskets made for the launch of Kono’s new look. Rachel Taulelei

world has challenged us to innovate we could give, and brings the story of New look for - to become scientists, researchers, our re-brand to life.” Kono wine makers, branders, marketers, A video showing the kono being viticulturists, and leaders,” she said. made – from harvest to completion, is Kono, the Wakatu Incorporation’s The challenge had been accepted on www.kono.co.nz food and drinks business brand, has without hesitation and today Kono Explaining the design, Kono said launched a new look drawing on “the crafted award-winning and world- it referenced traditional art forms and power of four”. renowned products like Tohu and Aronui paid tribute to the whenu (strands) of wines, Kono mussels, Annies fruit bars, fibre that are the basis of all mediums of Kono is Maori for baskets, and Chief Tutu cider and more. weaving. “The combined attributes of Executive Rachel Taulelei said the new “Kaitiakitanga (guardianship) is strength, durability, unity and flexibility branding encapsulated the power of one of the core values that directs our are the hallmark of finely woven four corners of beautifully woven flax business and our relationship with products. kono from which the business takes our environment. It’s our hope that “The carving patterns of kaokao its name, four iwi to which the owners customers will come to understand (chevrons), niho taniwha (triangles) and whakapapa, and the four seasons. our guiding principles and know that hekeheke (lines) are integrated. The The business is based in the top products crafted by Kono have at their positive and negative space are akin to of the South Island, Te Tau Ihu, and core a deep and inextricable connection the grooves and notches (pakati and headquartered in Nelson. to place. This is reflected by our new tag hae) found in elaborate works of carved Taulelei said the ancestors of line, love for the land, respect for the art and these patterns invoke themes Wakatu’s 4000 shareholders lived in Te sea,” Taulelei said. of courage, leadership, exploration, Tau Ihu for hundreds of years, cultivating “As part of our launch of our new movement, protection, responsibility gardens and gathering and fishing for icon, we harvested harakeke grown at and care.” cockles, pipi, snapper, mussels, kahawai our Whenua Matua vineyard. Members and crab. of our team wove this harakeke into “We have always been gardeners, kono (baskets) which were then filled fishers, orchardists, artisans and with gifts from our product range, and providores. A ‘K’ icon pin can be requested given to some of our key supporters and “Through the passage of time, the via www.kono.co.nz/#join-in customers. This is a unique koha (gift)

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OUR CODE OF CONDUCT

We do not condone illegal behaviour. We will always aim to do the right thing. The law surrounding fishing is both technical and complex and, at times, some people may make mistakes. When the law is breached, we will accept the consequences and make changes where needed.

We will work with Government and other interested parties to develop and implement principled and practical policies to ensure the use of fisheries resources is sustainable. If we don’t fish sustainably our industry has no future; it’s the cornerstone of our business.

Sealord Skipper Rex Chapman features in the campaign. We must ensure the economic gains we derive do not come at the cost of long-term sustainability. Working constructively with Government is vital to strike the best balance between current resource use and future opportunities for all New Zealanders. Striking this balance requires application of sound principles to develop evidence-based policy that uses robust information. throughout the country employed in environment and intent to deliver SEAFOOD catching, harvesting and processing best fishing practice.” We will continue to actively minimise our impacts on the marine environment the seafood that drives one of the The campaign is expected to and encourage others to act similarly. country’s most important domestic run over three years, in addition to INDUSTRY’S and export sectors, talking in their Seafood NZ’s day-to-day advocacy It is important to us we look after our marine environment. All New Zealanders derive benefits from own words. work and response to specific our natural resources today, but we are also guardians for future generations. MEN AND Seafood New Zealand Chief issues. This responsibility requires that we take care when we harvest; that we are conscious of our Executive Tim Pankhurst said the impacts, and that we work hard to reduce them. All food production has an impact on the many innovative and exciting environment, but we will strive to get ours as close to zero impact as we can. WOMEN TELL developments over the past few years were not always well known. OUR PROMISE: We will continue to invest in science and innovation to enhance fisheries’ THEIR STORIES “We thought it was time to resources and add value. tell our story, which is one of an This is our promise to every industry supporting dozens of New Zealander. Our fisheries are a treasured resource and, like all other countries, New Zealand uses these natural The seafood industry’s promise communities throughout the A promise about one of our most resources for food, recreation and commerce. We commit to harvest the commercial component of to the people of New Zealand country – and one of world-leading, valued and treasured resources. these resources responsibly. We commit to investments that add value to the resources we harvest is being rolled out through cutting edge technology that is We are the men and women of to deliver optimum value to New Zealand. television and social media, giving making a real difference to the way the New Zealand seafood industry a commitment to sustainable commercial fishing targets its catch, and we want you to be proud of We look after our people and treat them fairly. practices and finding ways to do while lessening its environmental each and every one of us. things better. footprint,” Pankhurst said. We promise to be guardians of We value our people. Whether they are working on land or on vessels at sea, we will work hard to The campaign began on July 2, He hoped people would take our oceans and to continue finding keep them safe and to create an environment that fosters their passion for the seafood industry. featuring the promise and a code the time to watch and listen to the new ways to lead the world with of conduct backed up by web stories, he said. sustainable practices – right now We will be accountable for delivering on Our Promise and will support episodes showing life at sea and “We recognise there will always and for decades to come. increased transparency. giving insights that few people be criticism of the industry – We may not always get it right, outside the industry are aware of. and in some cases that may be but we’re committed to always We will report annually on the progress we are making. We understand that much of what we do is The country’s main seafood deserved but in some others it exploring ways to do things better. over the horizon and out of sight, and we welcome the public becoming better acquainted with how companies have collaborated to is a misrepresentation – and that We have nothing to hide and we operate. Increased transparency is part of building that understanding and trust, but it must be promote the television and web- is why we are stepping up to much to be proud of. affordable, practical and respect the privacy and dignity of our people. based programme. deliver a promise to the people of So come with us and share our It features people from New Zealand about our care for the stories at seafood.co.nz. We give our word 6 | Seafood New Zealand | Volume 25 No. 4 OUR PROMISE IN PRACTICE

OUR CODE OF CONDUCT

We do not condone illegal behaviour. We will always aim to do the right thing. The law surrounding fishing is both technical and complex and, at times, some people may make mistakes. When the law is breached, we will accept the consequences and make changes where needed.

We will work with Government and other interested parties to develop and implement principled and practical policies to ensure the use of fisheries resources is sustainable. If we don’t fish sustainably our industry has no future; it’s the cornerstone of our business. We must ensure the economic gains we derive do not come at the cost of long-term sustainability. Working constructively with Government is vital to strike the best balance between current resource use and future opportunities for all New Zealanders. Striking this balance requires application of sound principles to develop evidence-based policy that uses robust information.

We will continue to actively minimise our impacts on the marine environment and encourage others to act similarly. It is important to us we look after our marine environment. All New Zealanders derive benefits from our natural resources today, but we are also guardians for future generations. This responsibility requires that we take care when we harvest; that we are conscious of our impacts, and that we work hard to reduce them. All food production has an impact on the environment, but we will strive to get ours as close to zero impact as we can.

We will continue to invest in science and innovation to enhance fisheries’ resources and add value. Our fisheries are a treasured resource and, like all other countries, New Zealand uses these natural resources for food, recreation and commerce. We commit to harvest the commercial component of these resources responsibly. We commit to investments that add value to the resources we harvest to deliver optimum value to New Zealand.

We look after our people and treat them fairly. We value our people. Whether they are working on land or on vessels at sea, we will work hard to keep them safe and to create an environment that fosters their passion for the seafood industry.

We will be accountable for delivering on Our Promise and will support increased transparency. We will report annually on the progress we are making. We understand that much of what we do is over the horizon and out of sight, and we welcome the public becoming better acquainted with how we operate. Increased transparency is part of building that understanding and trust, but it must be affordable, practical and respect the privacy and dignity of our people.

We give our word Captain Andrew Leachman (right) with his wife Vivian and Rear Admiral John Martin. Picture: New Zealand Defence Force

series of Navy voyages to Antarctica awareness and respect for the area - he Navy honours had shown the young ships’ companies has an extraordinary ability to teach and ice pilot how to monitor the region more pass on knowledge, he has an immense effectively. knowledge of Antarctic history and the Andrew Leachman’s 55 years at sea “We’re sending people down to the environment that inspires interest.” have culminated in a rare accolade – roughest, most dangerous part of the Leachman, who began his seagoing being named an honorary captain in the planet - they’re your nieces, nephews, career boiling cod livers on a trawler out Royal New Zealand Navy. grandsons or granddaughters and we of Grimsby on England’s east coast, was couldn’t do it without the confidence reluctant to talk about the honour. Leachman, 71, was honoured in his home and coaching that comes from our But in an interview with then Fairfax town, Nelson, by Navy head Rear Admiral association with Andrew.” Nelson journalist Charles Anderson John Martin, with other senior captains in In another tribute, former earlier this year he said he had loved the attendance at a special lunch. commanding officer of HMNZS Otago, seagoing life and would have helped the He became an ice navigation Captain David McEwan, said Leachman Navy for nothing. consultant to the Navy in 2011, especially had made the navy personnel better “It’s not a career, it’s a life choice,” he well-qualified for the role after captaining mariners and leaders in the Southern said. New Zealand’s ice-strengthened research Ocean and Antarctic environment. ship Tangaroa for 20 years, including many “He guided us as we grew in our trips into the Southern Ocean. In one of several tributes paid to

Leachman, Martin emphasised his value to the Navy as an “ice pilot”. “Andrew has a clear and undeniable passion for Antarctica and its beauty, history and strategic relevance to M. O. S. S New Zealand. He is widely regarded both nationally and internationally as one of I will put your plan together New Zealand’s most experienced and respected Antarctic navigators,” Martin said. Phillip Carey MIIMS “Guys like him - they don’t make ice 0274 110 109 pilots, there’s no course - it’s a lifetime lived on the sea in that region.” www.careyboats.com He said Leachman’s expertise on a

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made from wine industry waste. lupins and soy traditionally used as a carbohydrate and energy source in Steam distilled grape marc is the commercial abalone feed. heat-treated skins, pulp, seeds and It will also be tried on finfish, stems of grapes left over after wine beginning with barramundi. is made. “If it works with barramundi it may Using it, the South Australian work for trout, salmon, kingfish and Research and Development Institute a whole range of other carnivorous (SARDI) has teamed with Tarac species,” Stone said. Technologies to produce a cheaper, He said one of the major better-performing food source for the challenges facing aquaculture was farmed abalone industry. finding sustainable food sources A three-month feeding trial in that minimised the use of marine a laboratory produced improved ingredients. Using a waste product growth and better food conversion such as steam distilled grape marc David Stone ratio by juvenile greenlip abalone, went part of the way to achieving this. and is to be followed by a six-month “You don’t want to be taking 2kg of farm trial beginning in November. Grape waste fish from the ocean to produce 1kg of SARDI Nutrition and Feed fish in a farm.” feeds abalone Technology Associate Professor Tarac produces about 130,000 David Stone (pictured) said the new tonnes a year of steam distilled grape Australian scientists have come up feed, Acti-Meal, had the potential to marc, which is also used as a soil with a promising aquaculture feed replace ingredients such as wheat, conditioner or stock feed.

Sounds. It also includes the “Over the next year, MPI will be neighbouring Port Underwood area. commissioning new research to Guy said the 2016-17 closure of assess scallop survival and growth parts of the fishery had allowed the across a range of environments in scallop population to be rested, but Tasman and Golden Bay, and in the surveys had shown stocks had not Marlborough Sounds. This will help recovered significantly. determine whether interventions “A further closure is needed to such as reseeding of scallops, re- give more time for recovery and to establishment of shell reefs and carry out important research on the changes to fishing gear are likely to fishery. be successful,” he said. “Extending the closure for a “It will also help determine what further year has widespread support role disease and other factors may be from many fishers and the community. having in suppressing the productivity The Ministry for Primary Industries of the scallop beds.” consulted with locals on a number The top of the south scallop fishery of options, and a majority supported has steadily declined throughout the Scallop fishery closed some form of temporary closure as 2000s, with many reasons suggested the best way to ensure the fishery’s but no exact cause identified. Minister for Primary Industries long term future.” An MPI survey in 2015 estimated Nathan Guy closed the southern Guy said the Government had the biomass at 203-211 tonnes, the scallop fishery for the second year committed $400,000 over two lowest since 1998. The commercial in a row, citing continued low years to a comprehensive research catch sank from 684 tonnes of scallop levels. programme to better understand meatweight in 2002 to only 22 tonnes The 2017-18 season closure affects what caused the decline and options in 2015. scallop fisheries in Golden Bay, to help scallop numbers to recover. Tasman Bay and the Marlborough

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Radar sensors attached to 53 juvenile to 2500 kilometres from the colony, Crozet wandering albatrosses which is on Crozet Island in the have been used to track the birds’ Southern Indian Ocean. movements as well as recording Study co-author Susan Waugh, a where they picked up a radar signal Senior Curator at Te Papa, said from nearby boats. the results provided important The XGPS units, weighing less information for fishers and than 35 grams, were developed conservationists aiming to decrease by New Zealand-based Sextant seabird bycatch. Crozet wandering albatross Technologies, the company that Another benefit was the ability to fitted a GPS tracker to the emperor allow real-time monitoring of vessels Eye in the sky could penguin Happy Feet in 2011. anywhere in the birds’ range. One The study, reported on the Kiwi undeclared radar signal, probably catch poachers science information website Sciblogs, from an illegal vessel inside the EEZ, allowed researchers to determine was found during the study. A spinoff from seabird research how much time the birds spend near The authors said the same could become a new weapon in the fishing vessels looking for food. It technology could be fitted to sea fight against illegal fishing in the showed that nearly 80 per cent the mammals and turtles. Southern Ocean. tagged birds detected vessels up

Marine ‘rats’ natural marine environments at we mean the medium-sized will dominate, underwater volcanic vents, where predators that are associated concentrations of CO2 match those with kelp,” he said. “But ocean acidification predicted for oceans at the end of acidification is also transforming researchers say the century. They were compared ecosystems from kelp to low grassy with adjacent marine environments turf, so we are losing the habitat University of Adelaide researchers with current CO2 levels. that protects these intermediate say ocean acidification expected in Project leader Professor Ivan predators, and therefore losing these the future will reduce fish diversity Nagelkerken said the results showed species. significantly, with small “weedy” that total fish numbers rose, but local “The result is a lot of what are species dominating marine diversity was lost. known as weedy species – somewhat environments. “Small weedy species would the marine equivalent to rats and In a study just published in normally be kept under control by cockroaches, plenty of them around Current Biology, the researchers their predators – and by predators but no-one really wants to eat them.” examined species interactions in

Safety campaign focus on six risk areas: fatigue, needed to work on it. underway manual handling, safety on deck, “That’s the big companies, our winches, uncovered machinery and hundreds of owner-operators, intoxication. Maritime NZ, and crew, too. We all A year-long safety campaign Headlined “Safe Crews Fish have a responsibility to help each aimed at commercial fishing boat More”, it is a collaboration between other.” crews and operators launched at the Federation and Maritime He said every injury at sea the NZ Federation of Commercial New Zealand, with the crews and affected the whole crew, and could Fishermen’s conference is using operators of fishing vessels under 26 have far-reaching effects and impact cartoon characters to get the metres the target audience. on family life, time with friends, and message across. They will be frequently contacted leisure activities. Twenty-eight per cent of fishing crew via Facebook, email, postcards and “Our members work hard and in – more than one in four – are injured print advertising, with more details difficult, moving conditions but every every year, with most injuries to information continuously updated at one of them has the right to come hands, lower back, and spine. www.maritimenz.govt.nz/hswa home unharmed and the Federation The campaign is using cartoon Federation President Doug plays their part in ensuring that figures Stu, an experienced skipper, Saunders-Loder said the industry happens.” and his young son Russell to had been proven to be high-risk and

10 | Seafood New Zealand | Volume 25 No. 4 You know how balloons Brian popped his back? He used to One morning the stoop and liFT cases pain got so bad he like balloons. Should’ve couldn’t even put on used his legs. his boots. But not being Doesn’t able to fIsh really everyone? burst his bALLOON.

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Ray Avery, who will speak on what the seafood industry is changing Diverse lineup makes Kiwis great innovators, and worldwide.” for seafood Alex Olsen, head of sustainability ANZ Bank Chief Economist at Espersen in Denmark, who will Cameron Bagrie will offer a market conference present on seafood in a changing update, with presentations from the world. Marine Stewardship Council and The 2017 Seafood New Zealand “Avery is a successful the Ministry for Primary Industries Conference is taking place pharmaceutical scientist who started looking at the power of certification in Wellington at Te Papa on Medicine Mondiale, an independent and new market opportunities. August 3, with up to 300 people charity that creates low cost medical Jodie Campbell will speak expected to attend. equipment for the developing about the sector’s new information world,” Pankhurst said. programme, OpenSeas. Seafood New Zealand Chief “Olsen works for Espersen, a Dr Susan Marshall from Plant & Executive Tim Pankhurst said the seafood processing company in Food and Iain Hosie from Revolution conference has an interesting and Europe. Fibres will highlight innovation diverse range of speakers. “He has an extensive history occurring in harvesting fish and the “This year’s theme is Oceans of in food quality assurance and is use of by-products. Innovation – Enhancing a World on various industry organisations, There will also be presentations Class Fishery, and speakers will including being on the Marine on collaborative conservation and explore what makes Kiwis such great Stewardship Council’s Technical building trust in the seafood sector. innovators and what the future holds Advisory Board since 2007. Finally, journalist Bill Ralston for the commercial seafood sector,” “With his wealth of experience in will offer a light-hearted look at Pankhurst said. the seafood industry, it will be great September’s general election. The keynote speakers are 2010 to hear an outside view on how New Zealander of the Year Sir

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Seafood New Zealand | August 2017 | 13 Iain Hosie Komodo - Revolution Fibres electrospinning production equipment.

“That’s when we knew we had a great early days spent looking into different Revolutionary cosmetic product. methods to create and use nanofibres. new use for “Typically a natural ingredient, like Hosie and the team still wanted to manuka honey, is put into a cream and create the world’s best air filter, but as hoki skins rubbed into the skin. they continued to perfect the process “What we have done is remove all of creating nanofibre they went into the Matt Atkinson the ingredients of the cream and we open market in search of a readymade carry just the active ingredients in the product. A New Zealand company is using collagen as a dry fabric which dissolves They found many emerging sectors a fishing by-product to help create into the skin.” where no manufacturer in the world was innovative cosmetics. The unusual marriage of hoki skins creating nanofibre on an industrial scale. Auckland-based Revolution Fibres and beauty products began in 2009 It was motivation to find new ways takes hoki skins and turns them into a when Hosie was working on product to create the products on a larger scale collagen-rich nanofibre fabric that easily development at home ventilation than anyone else was. dissolves into the skin. company HRV. “In that three years of development The product is called actiVLayr - used Hosie, HRV owner Michael Perrett we started working with a bunch of new for anti-wrinkle skin care - and like their and engineer Simon Feasey set materials and we had our eyes on the technique, it is one-of-a-kind. themselves the task of creating the cosmetic and medical market, because Revolution Fibres co-founder Iain world’s best air filter. they were the ones that were starting to Hosie said it was a game-changer. “I started looking into new show a lot of promise. “It is a completely new way of technologies that would help us achieve “We work with Plant and Food doing delivering established cosmetic that lofty goal and that was when we some small-scale electrospinning of ingredients into the skin,” Hosie said. started looking into nanofibre,” Hosie collagen and are now looking to upscale The collagen in hoki is special not said. it.” only because it easily dissolves into “We saw an opportunity not just for Electrospinning is the method used the skin, but that it can also take on HRV, but for quite a lot of applications to create nanofibres and has been the properties found in other beauty for this technology. We did a lot of predominantly used to create air filters. products. market research and went to quite few Revolution Fibres took it one step “We were able to take some conferences and eventually founded further, creating a new technique called well-known cosmetic ingredients - Revolution Fibres.” Sonic Electrospinning. grapeseed, kiwifruit extract, honey and Funding for the company came “It came out of our research and all sorts of things - and we could see from the predecessor to Callaghan development and it’s a method that no that the collagen was good at carrying Innovation, the Government’s funding one else has. It allows us to be able to these extracts. arm for science and innovation, with the use a wide variety of materials whereas

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some nanofibre producers can only fabric, where they can work their magic a niche market for their anti-ageing make one or two fabrics. with it. products, Hosie said they are also “There is no business in the world “They can then create products, seeing encouraging results for acne, mass-producing collagen as a fabric and such as under-eye patches, face masks, skin lesions, and other skin conditions. selling it on the open market.” plasters and all sorts of bandages.” Hosie sees hoki skins as just the start, Revolution Fibres made a decision But even with a one-of-a-kind with Revolution Fibres interested in not to be a cosmetics company and product, getting consumers to change using other by-products of fishing, such went about partnering with other behaviour can be difficult. as extracts found in shells of shellfish or businesses with established consumer “We have a cosmetic product that seaweed that grows in farms. bases. challenges the way active ingredients “Our ability to turn seafood by- Confidentiality agreements won’t are put into the skin. products into a fabric opens up a whole allow Hosie to name the companies “It’s been exciting, but it’s also been lot of new opportunities.” are, but he did say some are “global a challenge because you have to break brands”. down a lot of established supply chains Revolution Fibres provides the that have made a lot of money.” companies with rolls of the actiVLayr While they continue to carve out

Komodo - Revolution Fibres electrospinning production equipment.

Seafood New Zealand | August 2017 | 15 An artist’s impression of Sealord’s new flagship at sea. SEALORD’S NEXT GENERATION

The $70 million vessel will take the New Zealand deepsea fleet to the next level. COVER FEATURE

The new vessel project team, from left, Adrian McGillan, Justin Brough, Sealord’s base and part of the Port Nelson boat harbour captured by Dorje Strang, Scott Gillanders, Tony Kuyk, Shaun Ryan. Picture: Tim Cuff photographer Tim Cuff in this atmospheric night shot.

had the Rehua built two decades ago, of the other vessels we’ve got in our Bigger, better, also in Norway. fleet,” he said. faster Gillanders said the key difference The level of automation means that between the new vessel and the the new vessel needs a crew of up to Bill Moore rest of the fleet could be summed 50, only half as big as for the Ukrainian up as efficiency – not just through a boats to catch and process the same Sealord is taking the deepwater fleet better propulsion package, but also volume of fish. Those boats could only into exciting new directions with its automation. operate economically because of their new yet-to-be-named $70 million This would allow it to profitably catch lower labour costs and capital outlay factory freezer trawler. low-value species – mainly mackerel and and their onboard maintenance work. Due to be delivered from Norway in squid – as part of its overall catch plan. “We’ve come through with May next year, the 81.75 metre vessel “It’s got a varied catch plan, a something absolutely ground-breaking will be bigger than all but Sealord’s two platform that will produce simple, here,” Gillanders said. 104m New Zealand-flagged BATM-class dressed products at a high volume on Sealord chose Skipsteknisk to design trawlers – but a generation ahead of those low-value species, and do it with the vessel, the same company it went to them all other respects. such efficiency that we can make it a for the Rehua in 1996. Its on-board factory takes automation profitable exercise. Our domestic fleet “They specialise in fishing vessels and to a new level, its Rolls-Royce Bergen hasn’t been able to do that before.’’ they have a very good reputation for engine will give it the speed to target This will mean heading and gutting building boats that work,’’ he said. pelagic species like jack mackerel and on board at high volume when it is The Rehua is 66m, the new vessel its electric winch system will generate catching mackerel and squid, and more nearly 16m longer and significantly extra power. Its crew accommodation is processed output – skinned, trimmed bigger – the top of the Rehua’s of a high standard and its work stations fillets - with species like hoki. wheelhouse would reach the bottom of are all ergonomically designed. Gillanders said the new vessel, to the new one. With recruitment soon to begin, be officially named when it arrives in In common with about 15 trawlers its 80 crew will be joining the most Nelson, will replace the Fishing Success, already in service around the world, the advanced vessel in the New Zealand a third 104m Ukrainian trawler that left core design is ST118. fleet, designed for New Zealand the Sealord fleet last year. Gillanders said this was a proven conditions and people. Jointly funded “Some of our current employees are trawler design that Sealord knew would by Sealord’s 50-50 shareholders, Maori- concerned that this vessel is going to be capable of fishing in New Zealand owned Moana New Zealand and Japan’s come in and that we’re going to sell off waters and catching our species. Nippon Suisan Kaisha, it will fish as far some of our existing vessels. We don’t “We’ve had to make a lot of changes north as off New Plymouth, off both have any plans to do that.” in terms of the deck layout, the winches, South Island coasts, in the sub-Antarctic The new vessel was different to the the factory layout and operation – and around the Chatham Rise. other eight because of its ability to because of the uniqueness of our fishery Fleet Harvest Manager Scott catch so many species and its capacity and species we catch.” Gillanders has been with the project to economically process and freeze the He said the engine package would since its genesis 2 ½ years ago, when lower-value catch. be a lot more fuel-efficient and the Sealord began looking at ordering a “That’s what makes it unique and winch package was electric, only purpose-built vessel – the first since it that’s why it’s not a replacement for any drawing energy when needed, and able

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Hull blocks ready to be joined together. A typical cabin layout on the new vessel.

to double as a generator when shooting is some difficulty getting Kiwis to the idea of it because when you look at the trawl gear away. pursue it, and Gillanders said the new the money and the time off, those two “We’ve come a long way. It’ll vessel had been designed to provide things alone should suggest that it’s produce a megawatt of power when the best possible working and living going to be a great lifestyle.” it’s paying the gear out, a huge amount environment. He said Sealord was a leader in of power, so as it’s shooting the gear It will come with a fully-equipped providing training and development in we can actually throw that energy back gym, two lounges - one a movie theatre an industry with great opportunities for into the shaft generator and power the – and other “time out” spaces in those who want to build careers. propulsion.” different areas. “We’ve taken people on who have He said the main engine Sealord Rooms have been carefully planned come in green, they’ve had no job chose was Rolls-Royce Bergen’s latest with close attention to details like before, they might be fresh out of mid-weight package, lighter and more soothing colours in the cabins. school, they might have had a couple of fuel-efficient than ever. Ergonomic design has been used to jobs and not done particularly well, and “It has the ability to catch the provide adjustable work stations and we’ve developed them right through. faster-swimming species like mackerel benches. Everything had been closely “Some of those people have started because we’ve got the horsepower looked at, Gillanders said, ‘’right down off right at the bottom and they’ve to do it, but when we’re fishing other to where we place handrails to make worked their way up, and they’re now slower-swimming species like southern sure people can get around the vessel skippers. The money they’re making is blue whiting or hoki we’re able to dial with ease and brace themselves well, equal to a general manager of a large the package back so we’re not burning and the chairs we’re selecting for mess organisation.” that higher volume of fuel through the and the couches in the cabins”. Crew members would also earn engine. There’s a lot of efficiency with Trip lengths will vary depending on significantly more than in equivalent that.” the species being caught. The main jobs onshore, Gillanders said. Sealord will begin making crew targets will be hoki and southern blue “We start at around $40,000, which appointments soon, starting with whiting. High-volume species such as doesn’t sound high, but that’s for engineers and skippers. The intention jack mackerel and hoki could mean trips basically a trainee coming in, someone is to promote from within the existing as short as three weeks, but the vessel that’s green. The factory manager will be staff, particularly with key positions, but is capable of staying out for double that making over $100,000 a year.” with 80 to 100 jobs to be filled, there’s time during the off-season when it will Those who would succeed were also the opportunity to bring in new fish for ling, squid, and barracouta as people who would be happy being at people. well as mackerel. Home port is Nelson sea for weeks at a time, he said. “We want to strike a balance – we but around half of the port visits will be “Someone who likes that lifestyle of don’t want to rob the experience out to Dunedin. going away for a period of time, coming of our existing fleet just for the sake Gillanders said Sealord could hire home and having a nice long period off of putting them on to a new vessel. crew from anywhere in New Zealand, so that they can do whatever they want Although this is the newest latest and in the case of newcomers, the first to do – relax, spend it with their family, greatest thing, we still need to maintain requirement was a genuine wish for a go on holidays. It fits with people who that level of experience in our existing career at sea. have families but also people who don’t, fleet.” “There’s some sort of quality in a and want to go on adventures. That’s A life at sea with its long absences person that firstly can go to sea and the sort of person we’re really looking from home isn’t for everyone. There wants to go to sea. Some people like for.”

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“The owners of Sealord needed something new – it’s symptomatic of New Zealand’s entire fleet. All these boats are getting older, they’re starting to break down more and more often. It’s just like a car. One day you’ve got to replace it.”

Dorje Strang with a finely-built exact scale model of Sealord’s new deepsea factory trawler. Picture: Tim Cuff

gauge on what the ship looks like. “The future of fish processing Shapely You can run a scale ruler over that is in these large highly-automated model arrives model and get exact dimensions if seagoing factories. That’s where you want to. “ the efficiencies are, that’s where the at Sealord Strang, a main driver of the vessel ability to really obtain the quality project, said its inception grew products is, and New Zealand’s lucky out of the problems around the enough to have an amazing fisheries Bill Moore performance of older trawlers at sea. resource allowing us to utilise these Breakdowns were a frustration to the types of vessels.” Sealord’s new flagship won’t leave onshore team, the seafarers and the He said the $70 million purchase Norway until next year but already Sealord board. showed Sealord’s confidence in the there’s a shapely model of it on “The owners of Sealord needed way New Zealand’s fisheries were site in Nelson. something new – it’s symptomatic of being sustainably managed. Built at 1 to 75 scale by a specialist New Zealand’s entire fleet. All these “You wouldn’t do it if you were marine model-making company in boats are getting older, they’re concerned about the fish not being Korea and delivered last month, starting to break down more and there to catch. it’s an exact model of the vessel’s more often. It’s just like a car. One “Likewise, the markets are strong external configuration, based on the day you’ve got to replace it.” and things are good. Not only actual Norwegian design plans. He said the new vessel would that, if you’re going to be a fishing Sealord Fishing Operations be a big step up for both Sealord company, you’ve got to have fishing Project Manager Dorje Strang said and New Zealand, with world- boats. They’re no good to us when the model had a dual purpose – it class fishing technology, crew they’re broken down and tied to the was part of a shipbuilding tradition facilities, electronics, and factory wharf.” and would go on display, but was equipment. It incorporated 20 years Describing himself as “well and also an aid in understanding how of technological advances since truly wedded to the project” and the new vessel would look and how the last deepsea trawler built for about to head to Norway on his it compared with the rest of the New Zealand, the Rehua. fourth shipyard visit, Strang said deepsea fleet. “The biggest thing is the scale he was excited by the approaching “When you build a high-rise of the vessel and its low operational completion of a job that had “taken building or a sports stadium, costs.” every day and every night of every generally the architects will develop With around an extra 2000 week”. a working model to scale so you can horsepower more than the Rehua it “It’s a once in a lifetime see exactly what the project is going would have close to the same fuel opportunity,” he said. to look like at its fruition,” he said. burn, Strang said, and would handle “This is like that. We can compare and process a higher daily catch rate it with all our other models to get a with a comparable-sized crew.

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Taking shape in the shipyard.

Sealord has tried to match trays, they are automatically loaded into Automation componentry to New Zealand agents and out of the freezers. on the factory to maximise the investment in “They then go into what we call a New Zealand businesses, and it has hotel, which is basically a freezer room, floor tailored the design to make life at sea as which identifies each box of fish and comfortable and safe as it can. stacks it into a shelving system. Bill Moore However the new vessel’s most “We deal with a lot of different sizes impressive innovations are around of fish and different sizes of fillets and Like a giant puzzle Sealord’s new automation. Its specifications include we could be dealing with dressed fish of deepsea trawler, the first built a fully integrated onboard grading, different species, and so it’s important to specifically for the New Zealand filleting, processing and freezing system have this hotel to separate all that out. fishery since the Rehua in 1997, is and a transport system for palletised “Once there’s enough of one being pieced together in a Norwegian products from the processing deck to particular size and particular species, the shipyard. the cargo holds. operator will see that come up, he’ll hit While the assembly and final build is This was a considerable advance on a button, and a robot will then palletise happening at Simek’s shipyard, where what other New Zealand factory trawlers that product.” the superstructure has been built, the could do, said Sealord Fleet Harvest From that point the fish is ready to eight hull blocks have been fabricated Manager Scott Gillanders. be shipped out to the customer. The in Poland. There are automatic size-graders and pallets are cling-wrapped and sent Construction is on target for the two automatic heading and gut-sucking to the hold by an automatic elevator vessel to pass into Sealord’s hands in machines that can each process more system. March next year and it will then have than 300 fish a minute, providing a An operator will then use a seagoing sea trials before setting off on a 40-day major labour saving. forklift to stack the pallets in the hold delivery voyage to Nelson. “These machines are very automated, and use a strapping system to hold It is expected to be fishing from May. they’re very safe, and they can put them tightly in place. Like Sealord’s other vessels it will through a huge volume that you can’t Unloading the boat is similarly be equipped to use Precision Seafood currently do with the technology in the streamlined. Harvesting. It will operate on a no- New Zealand fleet at the moment,” Gillanders said this has always been waste system, able to produce headed Gillanders said. hard work. and gutted high-volume species, Skilled operators are still needed and “It can be hazardous, particularly skinned and trimmed fillets of higher- some parts of the processing can’t yet around fingers and working in a cold value fish, high-grade fish oil for later be automated – but most can. environment, and we do really struggle refinement, and fish meal. Machines will fillet, trim and skin to get labour here in Nelson to do that Its Rolls-Royce Bergen nine-cylinder species like hoki before quality control sort of undesirable work.” main engine will produce 5400kw or and packing. As an example, 70 people are used 7200 horsepower and give a cruising Packing the fillets is still done to manually unload the Rehua. speed of 16 knots, increasing the range manually but unlike in the current fleet, But the new vessel will arrive with the of fish it can target. It has an advanced when freezers are loaded and unloaded catch already sorted and palletised. electric winch package that can produce manually, that will be automated on the “It will be forklifted back on to the as well as consume power, and the latest new vessel. elevator, it will come up to a hatch on navigation and communication systems. Once the packed boxes are placed in the side of the boat and be presented

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to another forklift. From there it can be –– 3 60-tonne trawl winches and –– Aukaha, 45.2m, 340 tonnes frozen direct loaded into a container, or we can automatic trawl operation system product, 70 tonnes fishmeal load into the coolstore,” Gillanders said. –– 8 sweep line winches, 18 tonne, and –– Ocean Dawn, 64.05m, 540 tonnes “At the moment those 70 people 8 auxiliary winches frozen product, 160 tonnes fishmeal throw the boxes on to pallets, it comes –– Forward and midship deck cranes –– Rehua, 66m, 660 tonnes frozen off but it’s all mixed, and we then have product, 170 tonnes fishmeal, 40 to put it through another process where –– Fully automatic freezer system, tonnes fish oil it has to be sorted and re-palletised. capacity 150 tonne/day “It’s saving an enormous lot of –– Freezer hold 1750 cu m –– Will Watch, 74.4m, fish hold 530 tonnes double handling.” –– 2 fish meal holds 400 cu m and 320 –– Meridian 1 and Profesor Mykhaylo Key specifications: cu m Alexsandrov, 104m, fish hold 1200 –– 81.7m length overall, 17m beam The Sealord fleet tonnes –– Rolls-Royce Bergen nine-cylinder –– Otakou, 42m, fish hold 130 tonnes –– New vessel, 81.7m, fish hold 1300 5400kw (7200hp) main engine, 1070 –– Thomas Harrison, 42.5m, fish hold tonnes, 300 tonnes fishmeal, 60 cu m fuel 180 tonnes tonnes fish oil –– Auxiliary diesels, 1300kw, 680kw

generation freezer trawler, particularly designed for New Zealand fishing History does in its hull design and sea keeping and port conditions from the bottom repeat characteristics. up. Rehua has got the very latest “Since 1993 the company [Sealord] technology and the highest standard From Seafood New Zealand, March has upgraded its fleet by adding of fittings … the finish of the interior 1997: five modern vessels but Rehua is is without equal in the New Zealand the first fillet trawler specifically fishing fleet, yet built at a fixed price.” “The $28 million Rehua is a new

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The Great Southern Ocean - oil on canvas. The painting depicts the Amaltal Columbia operating in the southern fishery.

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A cropped section showing detail of one of the Antarctic paintings - Shackleton’s ship Nimrod arriving at Cape Royds.

and the arrival of Shackleton’s Nimrod. Garwood began his seagoing Former There are 16 canvasses in all, to career straight from school and earned skipper’s be exhibited in Christchurch early in his Deep Sea Master’s ticket at 21 – October to coincide with the Antarctic possibly the youngest ever to do so Antarctic Season Opening programme. Six of in New Zealand. He fished on many them are also to be reproduced as vessels and around many countries. odyssey postage stamps by New Zealand Post. Son of another self-taught and Many photographers have visited the successful realist painter, Michael nears end Ice over the years and Garwood himself Garwood, he always harboured the took around 2500 images during his 10- desire to eventually switch to a painting Bill Moore day stay in 2015, as well as sketching as career. In 2006 he made the crossing Former deepsea skipper Sean much as the cold would allow. and since then his workplace has been Garwood routinely puts four to six However, so far as he knows he’s an upstairs studio alongside his Nelson weeks of fulltime painting into a the first painter to have documented home. single canvas, labouring over every the huts on canvas in this way, using Garwood prides himself on tiny detail. But his current mission the photographs as his guides for the producing works that he hopes will be has lasted for two years. “close focus realism” of his art, each bought because of the feelings they Garwood, 54, has poured his energy and picture close to what he saw, but filtered evoke, and become heirlooms handed heart into a series of paintings depicting through the lens of artistic licence. down the generations. He’s often at the Antarctic huts put up by the Scott In the case of the ships, he had work before 6am and doesn’t take his and Shackleton expeditions of the early nothing but a few photographs of what breakfast until two hours later. 1900s, and what’s been left intact inside they looked like and produced the “Once I’ve got a couple of hours them. He’s also painted Scott’s Terra scenes from his imagination, drawing under my belt, I’m on a winner, the Nova traversing the Southern Ocean on his 27 years at sea, including time pressure is off, and I know I’m going to working in the Southern Ocean. get a good day’s work in,” he said.

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Sean Garwood in his Nelson studio working on one of the Antarctic paintings.

A cropped section from a painting of artifacts in Scott’s hut. An earlier painting – The Smoke House.

With such close-focus work every A percentage of his sales will go to He looked forward to drawing on his brush-stroke counts and mistakes are the trust for future conservation and good memories of life at sea for future hard to fix. maintenance work. marine paintings. “People might think an artist sits “New Zealanders should be aware “I know I’m going to get a lot of joy back and paints and has a leisurely life – of the amazing work the heritage trust from that – and if I can do it for many nothing could be further from the truth. has done to restore and maintain those years to come, I’ll be happy.” It’s stressful at times, you think about huts,’ Garwood said. “Through my And he remains a staunch supporter all the time, every day, all day, at night, paintings I want to raise the public of the fishing industry, believing that the you’re going to bed thinking about it. awareness of what’s down there and wrong message gets too much of an “When this exhibition is over it will what’s been done.” airing. have consumed me for over two years. It was an honour, he said, to have “We shouldn’t be seen as the villains It’s a massive commitment. As long as the paintings chosen by New Zealand of the ocean – we’re the friends of the people get enjoyment out of looking at Post, ensuring that they will be seen by ocean, we protect it – we don’t use the paintings, then my work is done.” thousands of people who won’t get to fertilizers, we don’t kill the ground, The works for this series were the exhibitions. we’re simply harvesting wild fish and planned to be painted in the style of Garwood said he left the sea knowing managing that harvest with one of the artists in the early 1900s. his time was up in that career, but it has top management systems in the world. Many are close-ups of what the never left him. “I believe that New Zealand explorers left behind, saved almost “I miss it terribly. There’s probably fishermen are among if not the best in as if they’d just walked out the door. not a day that goes past without the world, without a doubt. I’ve fished Garwood is full of praise for the help somehow having a flashback to fishing. with a lot of nationalities and I honestly he got from Antarctica New Zealand I think it’s something that you cannot can say that the skill of New Zealanders and the conservation work of the get out of your system. Once you’re a is second to none.” New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, fisherman or a mariner, it’s with you for preserving the huts and their contents. life.” To see more: www.seangarwood.co.nz

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have also put the customer front and centre. On top of that, we have changed our emphasis to fresh fish from frozen, added an innovation section to the business who are looking at smarter ways to get the most out of New Zealand seafood and we have added a communication function to Sanford too. And what, specifically, do you still need to do to reach it? How will you know when you’ve arrived? I will feel we have got there when we have our people engagement scores at greater than 80 percent, which I know is an ambitious number, but we want to aim high. We also want to achieve a higher EBIT from each kilogram of fish, which requires continued emphasis on Volker Kuntzsch branding and innovation, and, crucially, have all our relevant stakeholders agree that we make a positive difference both story to tell and I believe the industry in seafood and in the wider business ‘Better never can capitalize on this by taking a environment. stops’ for wider customer and consumer-led We are currently implementing a perspective. people strategy that will take us to Sanford head Your stated goal is to make reaching our objectives in that regard. Sanford into the best seafood Improving the value per kg fish caught company in the world. How far along or harvested requires further investment Sanford Chief Executive Volker that path have you come? Where do into innovation and branding to reduce Kuntzsch headed off executives from you rate Sanford right now? the commodity share of our portfolio around the world to be named 2017 You may ask, what does being further. There is no quick fix to this, but Person of the Year by Intrafish at the “best seafood company in the we’ve made good progress already. the Brussels Seafood Show. He tells world” actually mean? To me it isn’t In a broader context, what are the Bill Moore there’s a long way to go about simple metrics like being the main opportunities and challenges before reaching his goal of making biggest. What it could include is being facing the New Zealand industry? Sanford the world’s best seafood an employer of choice, a preferred The opportunities are many. We company. supplier, having keen investors, being can better utilise brand New Zealand responsible for great value creation, a to talk about the provenance of our You’ve been here for just over 3 sought after company for guiding global beautiful seafood. We can also utilise 1/2 years. How have your views on thinking on sustainability, producing the relative success of the Quota the New Zealand seafood industry award-winning reporting and known for Management System to our benefit - it changed in that time? leading sustainable practices. is a very successful and largely effective My view regarding the opportunities In some cases, I am very proud system and we need to talk more for the sector hasn’t changed and I of what we have achieved already. about this and about our fascinating am very encouraged by the growing However, we still have a long way to go, industry generally. I also believe we determination to communicate more perhaps another three years or perhaps, need greater collaboration on the world transparently and build the public trust as a former All Black coach said to us stage amongst industry partners. After and respect our industry deserves. recently, better never stops. all New Zealand is a small country At the same time I have come to which plays only a minor role in global the realisation that an operational What are the key changes you’ve supplies. There is also opportunity focus still often outweighs the need made towards that goal? There are many. We have already to work together to fish smarter to for capitalising on the appeal of our made organizational changes, reduce our environmental impact New Zealand provenance and the restructuring reporting lines within the and to improve our joint marketing efforts going into delivering great business and building up our focus on and branding to focus on high end seafood sustainably. This is an excellent people and our internal culture. We customers globally.

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The challenges are many also figure out how to manage this valuable Absolutely yes, as I’ve already and include the difficulty of bringing resource. outlined. There is huge opportunity for different stakeholders to the table And what about the relationship growth here. to manage this important resource between the commercial and Does New Zealand make too much from a wider ecosystem based recreational sectors? of being “clean and green” or not perspective. We need to talk more Most of us agree that we need enough? than we do already. We also need to find ways of utilizing the ocean’s Not enough, but we need to a clear national ocean policy, in my resources in a shared manner. I believe underpin that with more decisive view led by a Ministry for the Oceans, there is only one approach that will action to ensure credibility. We can still although I appreciate this isn’t a view get us there and that is science-based enjoy the image globally because of shared by everyone. Our access interaction. We must avoid discussions the natural beauty of our country, but to fish is protected by our property that are overshadowed by emotions and we have to be more ambitious in our rights and quota ownership, and our uninformed biases. The challenge is a target setting to live up to expectations use of the oceans resources must broad-based recreational representation created through international be complemented by an ethic of doesn’t really exist. Yes, there are very agreements like emissions reductions responsibility and care. This means active voices in the recreational sector agreed in Paris. New Zealand is not working with communities and and some of them make very good doing enough in that regard. other users on the water, and being points about key issues in fishing, but If you could make one point to the transparent in the management of these my on-the-ground experience is that New Zealand population as a whole, precious resources. these don’t always speak for the broad what would it be? What’s your view on aquaculture array of rec fishers out there, so we Ninety-six percent of New Zealand’s as compared with the wild-caught need to work through the political arena territory is ocean. Let’s spend more fishery? Which has the best future and in that I have found there is often thought on that and see the seafood and greatest potential for this reluctance to deal with the topic. industry as a credible stakeholder that country? Our seafood production is tiny in wants to ensure a healthy, sustainable Future success, in my view, will come a world sense. Should New Zealand future for the ocean to ensure its own from utilising the image New Zealand companies be more collaborative future. We need your support in that! has internationally, so our focus in production, distribution and should be on creating more high value marketing? opportunity through aquaculture of selected species in sheltered areas, but we should also determine what is best practice in offshore farming where Gain your the animals and fish in our care are kept away from threats such as plastic Aquaculture pollution. I do not believe we should invest in land-based fish farming as qualification space is limited in New Zealand, but instead, we should make the most of Kiwi ingenuity to breed more resilient Aquaculture is one of the world’s fastest growing food-producing industries, with great prospects for qualified professionals. species adapted to future ocean With study while you work and full time options for diploma, conditions, such as ocean warming. degree or postgraduate levels, the world is your oyster! Our wild catch holds tremendous > Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Aquaculture potential because of its New Zealand > Bachelor of Aquaculture and Marine Conservation > Diploma in Aquaculture origin and our good management, (Fish Farming and Fishery Management) and should be branded as such. We must continue developing more APPLY NOW FOR FEB 2018 START selective and sustainable ways of harvesting our fish and New Zealand can play (and is playing) a leading role in this context. Getting there will require greater collaboration amongst all stakeholders, including the regulator. Ecosystem based 0800 422 733 management has to be introduced to nmit.ac.nz bring all stakeholders impacting on the ocean ecosystem to the table and Seafood New Zealand | August 2017 | 31 OPINION

August 1. Public meetings will be held and customary fishing sectors to learn in the South Island during August, and from Western Australia’s example. The in the North Island during September Ministry for Primary Industries was also and early October. These meetings represented in our May 2017 visit to provide opportunities to debate the Western Australia. recommendations before they are We were interested in learning about finalised and presented to the new Western Australia’s unique sector- government late this year. level representative arrangements. Our first report, What’s the catch? Recfishwest represents all recreational The state of recreational fisheries fishing interests, and the Western management in New Zealand, Australia Fishing Industry Council concludes that while New Zealand has (WAFIC) represents all commercial developed the Quota Management interests. Both are recognised by the System that has been admired Government of Western Australia as overseas, little attention has been the peak bodies or central points of given to reforming the management of contact and referral for sector-level recreational fisheries. issues. And both have fully-funded The report asserts that if changes service level agreements with the Dr Randall Bess are not made to the way recreational Department that include representation, fisheries are managed, New Zealanders along with consultation, engagement can expect further constraints on access and promotion of key sustainability What we to fisheries resources. Now is the time messages. to debate where we want to go with our Most importantly, the sector-level learned in recreational fisheries before we get to representative roles and service level Western the crisis point that often characterises agreements have changed inter- recreational fisheries overseas. sectoral dynamics for the better. The Australia But it is important to learn lessons representatives are encouraged to from other fishing nations that have work together to find solutions that It’s time to debate where to go with grappled with population growth, benefit both sectors for the long term. New Zealand’s recreational fisheries coastal development and conflicts in We heard from Dr Andrew Rowland, before a crisis point is reached, writes shared fisheries. Recfishwest’s CEO, of how Recfishwest Randall Bess. The second report, The Overseas supports some of WAFIC’s initiatives. Since early 2016 the New Zealand Catch, The state of recreational fisheries We also heard from John Harrison, Initiative, a Wellington-based think management abroad, is based on WAFIC’s CEO, who has a background tank, has researched ways to improve research of the red snapper fishery in recreational fishing sector New Zealand’s recreational fisheries. in the United States’ Gulf of Mexico, representation. The late Sir Douglas Myers had a the northern California recreational- In other words, both representatives’ passion for fishing. I was fortunate to only red abalone fishery, the halibut leaders understand public expectations hear first-hand from him about what fishery in British Columbia, Canada, regarding access to healthy fisheries fishing used to be like and how it had and recreational fisheries in Western resources and the need for transparent changed during his lifetime. Australia. and accountable management. But, Sir Douglas would recall the Particularly impressive was the both emphasise that they continue to abundance of fish species 60 or 70 years way Western Australia’s Department have their differences. It is how they ago. To him, the decline in fisheries of Fisheries has been preparing for approach their differences that leads abundance was the result of destructive increasing demand for recreational to improved dynamics and, therefore, behaviours across all fishing sectors, but fishing and ensuing inter-sectoral better management of shared fisheries. particularly the commercial sector. His conflicts that can adversely affect the We were impressed by the more recent fishing trips in Northland management of fisheries. widespread public support the did little to convince him that species For this reason, Western Australia Department has for the way it commonly taken by recreational fishers was chosen for the next step in manages recreational fisheries, despite had rebuilt sufficiently. the research. This involved the some severe restrictions in place on Sir Douglas funded the New Zealand New Zealand Initiative and the US- recreational fishing access and fishers Initiative’s research on finding ways to based Environmental Defense Fund needing to pay licence fees. What we improve recreational fisheries. Policy taking a group of New Zealanders found is that these fees are supported recommendations were released on involved in the recreational, commercial because they are used to fund sector-

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level representation and projects and They reflect much of what we learnt and the principles of the Treaty of research that benefit recreational in Western Australia and elsewhere Waitangi and related Treaty settlement fishing. regarding the steps that will improve obligations. Furthermore, we learned from shared fisheries for all fishing sectors. We encourage your participation. discussions with our Western Australian After the report is released in early counterparts about improved methods August we want to hear the public’s –– Dr Randall Bess is a Research Fellow for collecting catch and effort data views so we can propose change that at The New Zealand Initiative. He on recreational fishing, and ways to has public support. Details about the has researched and published reallocate total catches over time. The public meetings are on the Initiative’s articles on New Zealand’s fisheries. Department, along with Recfishwest website https://nzinitiative.org.nz/ He worked for the Ministry for and WAFIC, are developing market- research/fisheries-project/ Primary Industries and Ministry of based and administrative reallocation The details will also be circulated Fisheries for 13 years, and before processes, which are supported with through other channels, including immigrating to New Zealand, he new legislation. fishing clubs and local media. commercially fished in Alaska. The Initiative’s third report, The Lastly, it is important that what Future Catch, Preserving recreational we discuss collectively as final fisheries for the next generation, will recommendations upholds the secure set out our policy recommendations. rights associated with quota holdings

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generations worked on family owned vessels, of “mates’’ and “boys” who worked long hours, and of the owners and entrepreneurs who grasped opportunities that sometimes ended in success, but other times in failure. The museum’s Curator of Documentary History, Tony Rippin, said there had been a great response from the public and the fishing community, with a lift in visitor numbers. “We had a fantastic turnout of fishermen at the opening and since – both current and past members of the industry. “Some of them were the subject of the interviews, but many others have also spent time enjoying the dozens of images we have on the multiple touchscreens in the space. Many of them spent quite some time over the photographs, recalling past boats or swapping stories.” Rippin said the exhibition wouldn’t have been possible without the work of the two oral historians or the fishing community members taking time to share their stories. More recently Robert Odey had been instrumental in either supplying Raymond Mitchell at the opening of Fishing the Bight re-enacts the moves he made for the camera in the 1970s when he was 18, this time with small paper rig rather than the real thing. the various equipment like craypots, radios, a mast and nets, or sourcing country. items like dolphin pingers from others. Timaru fishing The impetus for the exhibition “The exhibition has evoked a positive exhibition was the work of oral historians Linda vibe for local fishermen, who are Hepburn and Ruth Low. In 2014, they enjoying their story being told,” Rippin proves a hit received funding from the Ministry said. for Culture and Heritage to interview It comes at a time of upturn in Bill Moore 20 local fishermen. Their aim was to Timaru’s fishing industry, with Sanford capture the stories, particularly of the hiring 100 people in the last year to take The South Canterbury Museum’s old-time fishermen, before they were its workforce there to 436. exhibition “Fishing the Bight” is lost. Pictures courtesy of South Canterbury proving highly successful at trawling What the historians found was a Museum, Timaru. up visitors and evoking memories of story of boom, bust and change, as times past. individual fishermen struggled to The exhibition, which runs until cope with changes that potentially September 2, explores the history of threatened their livelihoods. The impact Timaru’s independent commercial of government controls in the 1980s was fishermen who have been plying their to see a fleet of upwards of 50 boats trade in the inshore fisheries of the reduced to today’s tally of just 17. Canterbury Bight since the early 1900s. The interviews also revealed a story The industry started with tiny boats of hard workers who woke at 3am to and primitive nets and over time grew, start their day in the waters off Timaru, providing jobs and money for the local fiercely competitive but willing to risk economy. Eventually Timaru became their lives to help others in times of Part of the Timaru inshore fleet pictured in the one of the largest fishing ports in the crisis. Stories of fishing families, where 1950s.

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he made sure we were properly kitted out and that we were washing our hands and staying in the right places. He likes order, something he puts down to his early days in the armed forces. “Being ex -army, I get here, I tidy up, I get everything organised … our gloves and aprons, smocks, everything’s got to be spot on. I normally get here half an hour before everyone else.’’ That means starting as early as midnight, if a night shift with an early finish is required. But the hours and the cold don’t seem to get to him. He makes sure the refrigerated room where he’s working is kept at zero degrees year round. Lloyd puts his hardy constitution down to being keen on keeping fit. When he was younger, that meant tennis games and running with his son. Now that his boy is a well and truly grown-up 50, he limits himself to swimming at the weekends. He’s also cut back on his music. Lloyd was a professional saxophone, clarinet and trumpet player with the band, Sonny Day and the Sundowners. They played the dance halls in Auckland and toured a little, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ray Columbus and the Invaders. In the days before television, the dance halls were packed, Lloyd said. “You’d meet a lot of fine people.’’ These days though he continues to move to his own rhythm in the Sanford

Lloyd TeNgaio factory. He’s proud of what he does and how the business and the industry have transformed over the years and Lloyd’s title is Factory Admin, but unsurprisingly, his colleagues at Sanford Still going he could just as easily be referred to are all very proud of him. as Factory Father, he’s been there so strong after His manager, Steve Keeves, said long. He is currently in his 52nd year Lloyd was a very good influence in the at Sanford and things have certainly five decades workplace. changed in that time. “He is someone who can relate to Fiona MacMillan “Now we have quality control. such a wide variety of people and he can Not only that, but our facilities have Lloyd TeNgaio loves his job. So much talk to anyone across age differences or improved 100 percent,’’ he said. so, it is fiendishly difficult to keep him cultures. That’s been such a great thing “We had the market and we moved away from it. to have in the factory and when you here in 2002. The facilities here are think about the transformations Lloyd At 76, he has no intention of retiring and much, much better and we can’t place has seen in his 51 years at Sanford, what says he would go mad if he was stuck enough emphasis on health and safety, an achievement to be a valued part of it at home. But he’s not in a comfortable everything’s centred around health and all the way through.” office job, with a warm seat and a view. safety.” He works every day inside a giant fridge Lloyd is a stickler for doing things the at the Sanford fish factory in Auckland. right way. When we visited him at work,

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Graham, Matt, Nadine and Nick Taylor.

Graham said he had expected to a short time after Matt was born, Family’s five return to fishing, just not in the way it but ended up back on land not happened. only helping run Legacy Fishing generations “It was something that has always but working for PauaMAC7 and been in the blood. I guess it is a pretty the Paua Industy Council and on of fishing attractive lifestyle. I probably got into it the Picton Federation of Commercial early than I thought I was going to, but Fishermen committee. Matt Atkinson in hindsight it was good timing.” “Once you become involved in Graham and Nadine started Legacy fishing as a spouse you either throw For the Taylor family, fishing is in the Fishing in 1994 when they bought yourself into it or you develop a life blood. the Waima, leasing entirely of your own. Five generations have worked the rock lobster quota from “I chose to throw myself into the waters off the north east of the South Graham’s father. fishing industry.” Island. It was Nadine’s first taste of life on The Taylors’ business has grown in Graham Taylor was the fourth the water; she had grown up on an the 20 years since; they sold Waima and generation to start fishing and runs Awatere Valley farm. bought two new vessels; Fugitive for Legacy Fishing out of Picton with his “It was exceptionally hard rock lobster and the Joy Marie, a trawler. wife Nadine. for me to come from an office Graham is shore manager now and Graham’s journey to fishing was a less environment to crewing and I suspect Nadine, along with still helping run than conventional one. it was exceptionally hard for Graham the business, a Marlborough District “I left school and became an to skipper with a novice crew, who councillor. electrician. After I did my apprenticeship knew nothing about fishing and wasn’t Both boys are grown too; Matt I went and did an overseas stint then particularly strong,” Nadine said. studies at Victoria University in when I came back it was the early 90s “But because we were starting Wellington and Nick is the fifth and there were just no jobs,” he said. our business together and our lives generation Taylor to fish. “Dad needed a crew at the time and together, we were young and hopeful “Nick left college last year and he I have been fishing ever since.” and we made it work. went and did a fishing cadetship with The fishing tradition began with “I’m not going to be all romantic Talley’s, did a few trips with them, but Graham’s great-grandfather 100 years about it, it wasn’t like discovering a now he has come and joined the family ago. second me, I had to grow to enjoy it, fishing company this year,” Nadine said. “He lived down in Kaikoura but I loved working with my husband Graham said Nick has taken to the and crayfished from a clinker dingy and we made it fun.” job “like a duck to water”. using ring pots. After three years working on Waima, “He was always the one who was “Grandad didn’t fish but his brother the Taylor family grew, first with Matt keenest on the boat, he’s always wanted did. He came back from the war and and then 18 months later, with Nick. to be a fisherman since he was able to things were tight in New Zealand so he “With Matt I kept crewing until a walk,” Graham said. went into fishing in Kaikoura as well. couple of months before he was born. Matt is also pulled towards a life on “Dad was a fisherman most of his In fact I got so big at the end of my the water. life here in Marlborough, he fished for pregnancy that Graham had to help “When he comes out with his degree years off the Wairau Bar and out of me into my leggings each morning, he’s talking about going into the Navy, Nelson. He was trawling, scalloping and the other guys used to give us a bit of so maybe the salt in the veins has just tuna fishing and he would have fished grief about that,” Nadine said. rubbed off in a different direction.” for over 40 years.” Nadine went back fishing for

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completing a correspondence course in mechanics before finding work with Dave Caldwell at his Westport garage. “Dave taught me a lot but I had itchy feet and I left a year later and got a job as a mechanic at Denniston workshops. That lasted a year.” Pearson drove earthmoving machinery for his brother Ray but 10 months of that was enough. “I thought I could make more money from fishing than contracting. I knew Peter Devine and Les Clarke quite well and they both seemed to do all right.” Peason was 24 when he bought the Wendy, a 30 foot (9.1 metre) double- ender. “I paid Mack McCready $900 for her. She had a Rustin Rover engine, a light truck diff and a flat belt-driven winch, pretty basic stuff.” However as keen as he was, Pearson had never actually been fishing. “Peter Devine had the 36 foot Kawatiri and offered to take me out. We sailed about 4.30am and went to the Steeples where he lifted a set of pots. Then we went off Granity and set away the trawl gear,” Pearson said. “I don’t know what I expected but to my amazement, the net and doors disappeared! “I’m forever grateful to Pete. He Ron and Debbie Pearson in January 2015 at Talley’s wharf in Motueka. They leased the Sea Legend showed how to tie a codend, how to set from Graeme and Sue Bennett for the 8-week West Coast tuna season. the doors up, back chain’s distances, measure warps to estimate the spread, QMS still An avid spokesman for inshore use a block of wood over the side to fishermen, Pearson faded from the guess the speed, where logs and other rankles with fishing scene soon after the introduction fasteners were. He hammered it home of the Quota Management System. about watching the weather and the former inshore “I left the industry in ’87, disillusioned bar conditions, always! How did he at the introduction of quotas particularly know these things? ‘Trust me’, was his spokesman as there were more fishermen who answer.” rejected it than Taffy Martin and the With only 14 hours of tuition Pearson Chris Carey Federation had for its introduction,” he was wondering how he was going to said. As a deckhand on the FV David cope physically and mentally fishing Born in 1948, Pearson attended Baker I recall going into the water to single-handed. However, if he was going Westport South Primary and Buller High help the skipper of the Trojan II who’d to do this, it was time to get serious so School but found the whole school thing got into serious difficulties trying to it was off to school to get his “inshore “pretty average”. Rowing on the Buller clear gear from around the prop after ticket”. River or biking out to Charleston held broaching on the Westport bar. It Ron “day fished” for flats, gurnard more appeal. was very cold and we were probably and red cod and while the Wendy He worked for three years in the hypothermic. It was Ron Pearson with allowed him to get started, she was too Westport Foundry. While recovering the Sarabande II who came to our small. from a motorbike accident he spent the rescue. “I bought the Ajax off Brian Kenton. following year moving between jobs and She was 36 foot with a canoe stern and

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a rebuilt 4 cylinder Lister. It cost me relationship with Nelson Fisheries as shown a commitment.” $12,000 which in ’73 was a lot of money, ‘’not great’’. Following a few altercations One of a handful of small boats, but she had refrigeration. Up ‘til then a with management, it was time to move Pearson believes he was the first 48 deck hose spraying over old jute sacks on and refinancing with the Rural Bank footer to successfully catch orange was all I had to keep the fish cool.” gave him the freedom to do so. roughy off the South Island’s West Pearson fished her briefly out of “I sold all my fish to Peter Talley. He Coast, working the Cook Canyon from Timaru, Akaroa and Nelson. With the paid better, gave good service and was 400 to 550 fathoms. help of Chris and John Guard he built always approachable.” “I’d had a Frank and Bryce wing trawl dredges, but wasn’t particularly fond of It was the late ‘70s and while Ron and a 4-seam trawl but no net monitor. scalloping. ‘’paired-up’’ with a number of boats The first shot was only 5 cases but by “I remember Tragedy (Rick Tregidga) taking advantage of the snapper fishery the 5th trip I’d got the whole ‘fishing on the Spray telling me he’d steam out in Tasman Bay he wasn’t convinced. blind’ thing sorted and the last tow was ‘the Cut’, turn his brain off and scratch “Bottom trawl worked well on species 8 tonne.” like a hen all day.” like snapper but wasn’t great on flats but Whether from curiosity or to prove In later years, Pearson found the idea I’d always thought if you couldn’t catch a point, Pearson took the Sarabande II of having to fish a resource in decline more than double what others were to the Chatham Rise and while he may simply to keep a fishing licence current getting by pairing, why bother?” have had the Certificate of Competency “kind of dumb”. Always open to ideas, He became very active with Search to allow him to operate that far offshore an article in a national fishing magazine and Rescue including the salvage of a the boat certainly wasn’t surveyed for got him thinking about twin-trawling. number of vessels. Following an inquiry that. “It did seem to fish better than single into the Hawea sinking, those actively “I was fishing a little ‘glitch’ on the gear but I gave up on it after a while. involved with SAR duties were asked to chart, in 500 fathoms. I’d got hooked Ajax was too narrow; I’d smacked the become civilian advisors. Appointed the up for an hour or two thinking how prop a few times with the dummy door Marine SAR Advisor for the Westport ridiculous this was. We caught about when hauling and there were always area, he said the lack of communication 8 cases. The Cordella, Skeggs’s 1500 problems with landing and setting away between the Rescue Coordination tonne factory trawler, was fishing two codends.” Centre and those ‘’out there on the outside us and she only got about 50. In 1975, Ron passed his 2nd Class boats’’ was of real concern. Overall I caught 58 tonnes of roughy, DTE and Deep Sea Mate’s ticket. The With the QMS just around the most of it on the West Coast.” following year he bought the French corner, Pearson began looking to the Pearson has never believed in the built Sarabande II from Nelson Fisheries. deep water. Fishermen could apply for QMS, which he said was promoted by “That cost me $26,000! She had a exploratory orange roughy quota but “the Blue Book of lies” and rushed tired old 180hp Cat D333 but she could there was no guarantee of an allocation. through with little consultation. He carry 15 tonne down below.” “I’d been up to Napier to see what certainly didn’t agree with the concept He fished the West Coast as far they were doing. Mike Terry, Mandrake, of Notional Quotas, a process he south as Jacksons Bay, describing the Frank Shirley were doing ok so I came believes invented more fish than had Sarabande II as an excellent “bar boat”. back to Westport and gave the boat a ever been caught. “I broached twice in the 10 years I bit of a birthday.” “I’d invested heavily but there were owned her. She was very forgiving - In 1985, Sarabande II was fitted with others who received quota without any however my first effort was a bit of a a new engine; the 195hp Cummins 883 commitment or intention whatsoever.” disaster.” swinging a new 4-blade prop provided He was convinced that given the With a breaking sea on the Grey bar, 2 tonne of bollard pull. New winches opportunity to work together, the Pearson decided to heed the advice of holding 2300metres of warp, sweeps Government and fishermen would have a former nautical tutor; backing up when and bridles allowed Pearson to fish come up with a more workable plan you risked being “pooped” by a “big comfortably in 600 fathoms. and one still based on a total allowable one’’. Then the rules changed - there catch. “She was buried under a mountain of would be no exploratory quota, “The West Coast South Island was water. All you could see was the bow, a effectively pulling the rug out from opposed to the introduction of quotas little of the wheelhouse and the funnel under Pearson and others who had and the Port Liaison meetings held belching black smoke. We broached invested heavily. around the country came up with a and it was debatable which way to go “It was all politics, all BS. I had an number of viable alternatives.” but I managed to turn up the river. overdraft of $80,000 with no fish plans In September of 1985, Pearson took Everyone has different ideas on crossing and no packages. But MAF must have Petition 1985/285 to the Beehive and in a bar but I never, ever tried that again.” been listening because quota was May 1986 he put his case to the select Ron describes his working eventually offered to those who had committee.

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“The petition’s underlying theme fighting for what he believed were either. Heaven forbid should you have was the goals under the QMS were better conditions for fishermen, Ron was the audacity to query your fish plan or unachievable and that stable fishing left wondering. the price. You’re staring down the barrel communities were under threat.” “I was pretty gutted by the way of a loaded gun doing that. With two significant submissions things had gone and so in 1987 I “You know, we weren’t cowboys back in support and despite the Select too sold out. Now 30 years later we in the ‘80s, we didn’t rape and plunder, Committee “highly recommending” celebrate but as we predicted, control in fact we often asked for restrictions his petition, Pearson faced a political of their industry by the fishermen but all too often we were ignored. Many road block, hugely disappointed by has been lost to the processors and fishermen I talk to today are just as the lack of support from his member of absentee quota holders interested only disillusioned now as I was then.” Parliament and an utter lack of response in investment with no desire in getting He said 30 years was a long time from the Ministry. their hands wet.” when something wasn’t working as it Seeking a reply from the Minister of He points to the once thriving fishing was designed to, but it could be fixed. Fisheries, he went to the Ombudsman communities of Westport, Akaroa, “I believe what it needs is input from and under the Freedom of Information Nelson, Motueka and Greymouth. those directly involved with their fishery Act, went searching for answers. “The Blaketown pens were once full - only they need to be listened to this When he presented his findings at the of bright, well-maintained boats looking time, not ignored.” Federation of Commercial Fishermen’s sharp. Look at them today - they’re run So, what did happen to Ron Pearson? conference in Invercargill, many an down and neglected through no fault of Living part of their lives as sea eyebrow was raised. their owners. gypsies, Ron and Debbie Pearson “I quote: the object of the quota “Take fish prices - they haven’t spread their time between New Zealand system is to capture the super profits changed significantly for decades but and Australia. of companies and some individuals. the costs associated with catching it “We’re never far from the sea. We Well, the Minister was gobsmacked. have sky-rocketed and the financial have a yacht in which we cruise the Where did you get that from? Long returns in most cases are unsustainable. South Pacific and for the past few story short, the Westport Fishermen’s If you’re fishing for a company and seasons we’ve leased boats to go tuna Association had a vote of no confidence working to a sustainable fish plan then fishing - just Debbie, myself and no in the executive and resigned from the you are probably doing okay, but try quota to worry about.” Federation and many in Greymouth doing a mum and dad or father and son stopped their subscriptions.” operation. I believe it’s very unlikely you Further public meetings and a will make it.” publicity campaign by several fishing While some fish stocks are doing communities did little to halt the QMS better than they were Pearson believes freight train, he said. it is due to the steady attrition of boats “Some fishermen asked for their and effort rather than a result of good names to be removed from the petition fisheries management. when it became apparent that the piece “Bycatch was a problem back then of paper they’d get would be a great and 30 years later it still is, and as for asset either in cash or as an investment. Deemed Values; they’re simply unfair So a lot sold out and you have the result and unacceptable.” of that today - much of the quota owned Pearson believes there is a future in by a few who now hold the strings like the inshore for those who are driven puppet masters.” but with so much stacked against them The final nail in the coffin came when many are turned away or simply give up. his petition was declined by the Cabinet “You need to see you have a future in Legislative Committee. He likens the it but again, it all comes back to quota. post-QMS period to that of a “White A boat isn’t worth anything without a House investigation” - half-truths, viable quota package and without quota payouts, smoke and mirrors and deals you’re forever beholden to those who done behind closed doors. have it because they have total control With hindsight Pearson believes he over your life and livelihood. could have done better. It was about “They dictate what you will catch and playing politics and he was new to the what price you’ll be paid and there’s no Ron Pearson’s Sarabande II at Westport’s refuelling wharf in 1985. game. After a lifetime in the industry guarantee you’ll get the fish next year

40 | Seafood New Zealand | Volume 25 No. 4 My Food Bag co-founders Cecilia Robinson, Theresa Gattung and Nadia Lim.

the business for its rapid rise, but their part of the business. My Food Bag’s healthy and delicious recipes, and the With an estimated 50,000 customers, meteoric rise ease of ordering and cooking them, are that means sourcing a lot of seafood right at the top of the pile. and from a reliable source. Matt Atkinson Cecilia Robinson, who serves as the “In the last 12 months Moana co-chief executive with James, said New Zealand supplied approximately My Food Bag has fast become a always trying to get the best for their 250 tonnes of seafood to My Food Bag standout Kiwi success story. customers has been the key to My Food across almost 25 species,” Robinson In the five years since the home food Bag’s success. said. delivery service was founded it has “We have listened to what our “Our supplier relationships across gone from a small start-up to one of foodies have asked for and then our entire business are incredibly New Zealand’s biggest providers of responded to this. As a team, we always important to us. We consider our food. work harder to deliver more for our suppliers business partners and value The business is the brainchild of foodies,” Robinson said. their support in delivering a high-quality Cecilia Robinson, who founded it with “At My Food Bag our foodies are at product to our customers week-on- husband James, celebrity chef Nadia the heart of everything we do. We work week.” Lim and partner Carlos Bagrie, and harder to get better so we can deliver With exceptional year-on-year former Telecom chief executive Theresa more to our foodies. I care about our growth, Robinson and her team have Gattung. brand love and delivering on our foodie continuously found ways to keep the From that starting team of five, promise – that is what is really important business moving forward. they have grown to 120 staff and an to me.” In 2015, Kevin Roberts, the former estimated $130 million in revenue. My Food Bag has had seafood on the chief executive of advertising behemoth It is hard to single out one aspect of menu since day one, forming an integral Saatchi and Saatchi, was named

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Cecilia Robinson Nadia Lim

“In the last 12 months Moana New Zealand supplied approximately 250 tonnes of seafood to My Food Bag across almost 25 species.” executive chairman, bringing a wealth of innovation is at the heartbeat of the nine essential amino acids that experience in branding and consumer everything we do and we will always our bodies can’t make and have to behaviour. continue to innovate to better meet our get from food sources, needed for They have also sold a large portion foodies’ needs. We have only just begun a huge number of important bodily of the company to Australian private and as My Food Bag continues to grow functions – everything from making equity firm Waterman Capital - part and evolve that will become even more enzymes and hormones to growing of their plan to eventually list on the evident. There are definitely some of and repairing your muscles and body New Zealand Stock Exchange. our most exciting initiatives yet on the tissue,” Lim said. “Working toward a possible IPO is horizon,” Robinson said. “Fish is also low in saturated fats and only a natural extension of this as we While Robinson doesn’t seek a high many fish, particularly the oily kind, are want to give Kiwis the chance to have public profile, Lim is the organisation’s high in heart-healthy mono and poly- ownership of something which is quickly face. unsaturated fats.” becoming a Kiwi institution,” Robinson When My Food Bag launched, Lim Lim said with so many different My said. was fresh off winning the second series Food Bag options, there was something “Our long-term vision and strategy of MasterChef New Zealand, using the for everyone. is to ‘create stronger and healthier new found fame to catapult herself into “For our Fresh Start recipes that are communities throughout New Zealand’. one of the country’s most recognisable under 450 calories per portion, we focus We want to fill New Zealand with My chefs. on baking and poaching. Poaching fish Food Bag foodies. To achieve this, we The University of Otago-trained in a warming curry sauce is perfect for will continue to innovate, challenge and dietician’s “nude food” cooking style, winter. extend. “ which celebrates fresh, unprocessed “For our family-focused recipes Signing up Kiwis nationwide has seen food, is well received by consumers and typically found in My Family Bag, we them extend their product range to not has had a heavy influence on My Food use more pan-frying and crumbing as just include the standard food bag, but Bags recipes. these methods are typically more kid- create gluten-free, gourmet, veggie, Seafood fits perfectly into this friendly – with recipes such as a healthy and lunch bags. mantra, with fish in particular, being fish burger or homemade fish and Two of their newest options are Fresh important for a healthy and balanced chips. And when we want something Start, aimed at consumers wanting to diet. more indulgent for My Gourmet Bag, a reduce their calorie intake, and Bargain “Fish is a very nutritious food; it’s a pan-fried, crispy skin fish dish is always Box, for families working on a budget. complete protein, meaning it contains a winner.” “As a business we believe that the full range of amino acids, including

42 | Seafood New Zealand | Volume 25 No. 4 RECIPE

Lemon panko crusted fish with mixed chips, roast garlic aioli and slaw

My Food Bag 2 teaspoons olive oil prepared tray with a drizzle of oil, Zest of 1 lemon kumara spice mix and season with salt Classic for Two and pepper. Bake for about 15 minutes

then add garlic to tray. Roast a further Ready in: 35 minutes Ingredients: slaw dressing 10 minutes, or until garlic is tender and Prep time: 20 minutes 1 ½ teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil chips are golden. Cook time: 25 minutes 1 ½ teaspoons vinegar (e.g. red wine, white 2. Pat fish dry with paper towels and wine) Serves: 2–3 remove any remaining scales or bones. ¼ teaspoon runny honey Cut any larger fillets in half, then ½ teaspoon mustard (e.g. Dijon, wholegrain) season with salt and place on second TIP: the slaw could be made in prepared tray. In a bowl, combine panko advance and stored covered and Ingredients: slaw breadcrumbs, oil and lemon zest. Gently undressed in the fridge. Dress slaw pack crumb onto fish and press down to 1 carrot adhere. just before serving. ½–1 beetroot 1–2 handfuls mung bean sprouts 3. When chips have 7 minutes cook time 1 ½ tablespoons roughly chopped mint remaining, bake fish (on rack higher than Ingredients: mixed chips leaves chips) for 5 –7 minutes (depending on 200g gold kumara, scrubbed and cut into thickness), or until just cooked through. 1cm-thick chips To serve 4. In a large bowl, whisk all slaw dressing 200g potatoes, scrubbed and cut into 1cm- ingredients until smooth. Grate carrot; thick chips 1 lemon, cut into wedges (use zested lemon) peel and grate beetroot. Add all 1 ½ teaspoons kumara spice mix (see recipe remaining slaw ingredients to bowl with below) Kumara spice mix dressing and toss to combine. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Mix together ½ teaspoon garlic salt, ½ Ingredients: roast garlic aioli teaspoon dried rosemary, ½ teaspoon 5. Squeeze garlic out of skin and combine with mayonnaise in a small bowl, mix 1 clove garlic (leave skin on) paprika and 1 teaspoon lemon pepper well to combine. 2–3 tablespoons mayonnaise seasoning.

Preheat oven to 220°C. Line two oven trays To serve, divide mixed chips and lemon Ingredients: lemon panko crusted fish with baking paper. panko crusted fish between plates. Serve slaw on the side with a dollop of roast garlic 300g skinless, boneless, white fish fillets aioli. Squeeze lemon juice over fish just 1/3 cup panko breadcrumbs 1. Toss kumara and potatoes on first before serving.

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Joyce said. implementation. Science “The research will allow us to develop There is strong representation Challenge sets an ecosystem-based management from the seafood industry within the (EBM) approach to inform the way we Challenge’s administrative structures. big goals govern and use our marine resources.” Sanford CEO Volker Kuntzsch sits on Hall described EBM as a “holistic the challenge’s board, and Aquaculture Matt Atkinson and inclusive way to manage the NZ CEO Gary Hooper, Fisheries Inshore competing uses for, demands on, and NZ CEO Jeremy Helson, and Te Ohu The Sustainable Seas National Science ways New Zealanders value our marine Kaimoana Aquaculture Manager Challenge has some lofty ambitions. environment”. Kirsty Woods all sit on the Challenge’s It states its objective as being to “The key thing about EBM is that it’s stakeholder panel. “enhance the value of New Zealand’s holistic,” she said. The stakeholder panel also includes marine resources, while providing “Instead of considering an representatives from Forest & Bird, a healthy environment for future aquaculture farm here and a discharge World Wildlife Foundation and the generations”. there and fishing there and considering Environmental Protection Agency. The Challenge has brought together all these things individually, it actually The panel is not the only place with a 181 researchers, 34 organisations and is takes a holistic approach.” diverse range of talents and opinions, in funding 38 projects. The research for the 38 projects in fact Hall said bringing groups together It is easy to see why the Challenge’s phase one is primarily focused in an area that haven’t always seen eye-to-eye was Director Dr Julie Hall calls it a “complex at the bottom of the North Island and part of the plan. beast”. the top of the South Island with a case “One feature of the Challenge is that But Hall also acknowledges that’s why study area in Tasman and Golden Bays. projects are well integrated, comparing it is so exciting. They come under six different data and ideas, and working together. “We aim to improve the categories; Our Seas, Valuable Seas, “One of the underpinning aspects for management of the marine environment Tangaroa, Dynamic Seas, Managed Seas the science challenges was ‘best teams’. in New Zealand, and we have the and Vision Matauranga. What is the best team in New Zealand challenge of working with a whole range These range from looking at to do this piece of work?” of disciplines,” Hall said. Kaitiakitanga in practice, how “social With 38 projects, funding has been This meant bringing ecologists, licence” is understood in New Zealand staggered and now results are slowly physicists, social scientists, lawyers and to looking at different ways to protect coming in, but with only a 2019 finish policy people together in one room, mussel farms from ocean acidification. line there isn’t a high priority on getting all talking about the same issues from However, in a project so far-reaching the work done fast, but rather getting it different perspectives. there is not a single mention of the done right. Steven Joyce, then Science and Quota Management System. That applies not only to the research Innovation Minister, announced the “This will be considered in phase but to the overall Challenge structure, challenge in 2014 with $31.3 million two, post 2019,” Hall said, “One of the which meant the first round of funding in funding over five years from the reasons being the fisheries legislation is was approved in late 2015, with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and under review. research starting in 2016. Employment. “We have submitted to that Even so, there are already This includes a cap of five per cent on legislative review, not in terms of what encouraging results coming in - waste administrative costs. we believe it should look like, but mussel shells have been used to make The challenge is broken into two five- around EBM and the research that water more alkaline and slow down year periods, with a review from MBIE in we are doing that would support the the effects of ocean acidification on 2018 to determine whether phase two development of EBM in New Zealand.” mussels. will be given the green light. The challenge has a programme Hall is currently putting together her Joyce, at the time, said it had the called Ecosystem-based management yearly review for MBIE and will learn potential to transform New Zealand into within New Zealand’s existing legislative more in September as to what will be a world leader in sustainable marine framework, and it references the needed for phase two to be given the economic development. Resource Management Act 1991 go ahead. “This Challenge will build on and Exclusive Economic Zone and New Zealand’s world-class marine Continental Shelf Act 2012 - but no research to allow us to better mention of the QMS. Learn more about the understand the human-induced and Hall stresses the challenge is not a challenge and the projects at other changes affecting our oceans decision-making body, but is tasked sustainableseaschallenge.co.nz and the implications of those for our with creating a knowledge base to management of marine resources,” support ecosystem-based management

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Economic review of the seafood industry to May 2017

EconomicEconomic reviewreview ofof the the seafood seafood industry industry to to May May 2017 2017

Welcome to the latest update on the economic performance of New Zealand seafood. This edition provides provisional data for the year to date to May 2017.

KEY RESULTS FOR THE PERIOD: WelcomeWelcome to to the the latest latest update update on on the the economic economic performance performance of of New New Zealand Zealand seafood. seafood. This This edition edition provides provides provisional provisional datadata• for for Exportsthe the year year totalled to to date date $753mil to to May May 2017for 2017 the. . period, with China continuing to be the top market by value. KEYKEY• RESULTS RESULTSThere FORwas FOR aTHE slightTHE PERIOD PERIOD decrease: : of 3 percent in export volume overall. • • •ExportsExportsSalmon totalled totalled exports $753mil $753mil have forgrown for the the byperiod, period, 27 percent with with China Chinacompared with continuingcontinuingthe same to toperiod be be the the in top 201top market 6market. by by value value. . • There was a slight decrease of 3 percent in export volume • T here was a slight decrease of 3 percent in export volume overalloverall. . • • SalmonSalmon exports exports have have grown grown by by 27 27 percent percent compared compared with with

thethe same same period period in in 201 2016.6 . EXPORT STATISTICS

EXPORT NZ$FOB* EXPORT TONNES EXPORTEXPORT STATISTICS STATISTICS All figures in this section are based on export data Finfish species accounted for 75 percent of the total EXPORTEXPORTprovided NZ$FOB* NZ$FOB*by Statistics New Zealand and analysed by EXPORTEXPORTexport volume TONNES TONNES with shellfish (including paua) Seafood New Zealand for the year to date to May accounting for 13 percent and squid accounting for 9 AllAll 2017figures figures. in in this this section section are are based based on on export export data data FinfishFinfishpercent species species. Overall accounted accounted there was for for a7 57slight 5percent percent decrease of of the the intotal totaltotal providedprovided by by Statistics Statistics N Newew Z ealandZealand and and analysed analysed by by exportexportexport volume volume volume with with of shellfish 3shellfish percent (including (including when compared paua) paua) with the Seafood exports to the end of May 2017 totalled SeafoodSeafood New New Zealand Zealand for for the the year year to to date date to to May May accountingaccountingsame period for for 13in 13 percent2016. percent and and squid squid accounting accounting for for 9 9 NZ$753mil with more than 127,760 tonnes exported. 20172017. . percentpercent. Overall. Overall there there was was a aslight slight decrease decrease in in total total exportexportExport volume volume volume of of 3 3(percentYTD percent to whenMay when 2017compared compared) = 127 with ,with76 0the the SeafoodExport expo valuerts to(YTD the toend May of May 2017 2017) = NZ$totalled753 m Seafood exports to the end of May 2017 totalled samesametonnes period period in in 2016. 2016. NZ$NZ$753753milmil with with more more than than 127 127,760,760 tonnes tonnes exported. exported.

$54m ExportExport volume volume (YTD (YTD to to May May 2017 2017) )= = 127 127,76,7600 ExportExport value value (YTD (YTD to to May May 2017 Squid2017) )= = NZ$ NZ$753753mm 623t 400t 1,079t $116m tonnestonnes Other Oysters Rock 1,433t Rock Lobster Molluscs Lobster 11,659t Other Squid $5m $54m$54m Crustacea 400t Oysters SquidSquid 623t623t 400t 1,079t1,079t $116m$116m $397m OtherOther OystersOysters RockRock 1,433t1,433t388t $12m RockRock Lobster Lobster Finfish MolluscsMolluscs LobsterLobster 11,659t11,659t OtherOtherOther Other SquidSquid Molluscs $5m$5m CrustaceaCrustacea FIGURES QUOTED OystersOysters FIGURES QUOTED ARE IN $397m$397m 388t ARE IN $12m $12m $44m NZ$ FinfishFinfish 388t Other TONNES OtherOther Other Other Molluscs MolluscsCrustacea FIGURES QUOTED FIGURES QUOTED 15,986t FIGURES QUOTED ARE IN FIGURES QUOTED ARE IN Mussels ARE IN $44m$44m ARE IN NZ$NZ$ TONNES Other$5mOther TONNES 96,192t CrustaceaCrustaceaOther Finfish 15,986t15,986t

$120m MusselsMussels

$5m$5m Mussels OtherOther 96,192t96,192t FinfishFinfish $120m$120m MusselsMussels

Source: Export data, Statistics New Zealand, Seafood New Zealand. FOB = Free on board. The value of export goods, including raw material, processing, packaging, storage and transportation up to the point prior to loading on board ship.

Source:Source: Export Export data, data, Statistics Statistics New New Zealand, Zealand, Seafood Seafood New New Zealand. Zealand. FOBFOB = Free= Free on onboard. board. The The value value of exportof export goods, goods, including including raw raw material, material, processing, processing, packaging, packaging, storage storage and and transportation transportation up upto theto the point point prior prior to loadingto loading on onboard board ship. ship.

Economic review of the seafood industry to May 2017 EXPORTS BY COUNTRY Composition of Exports to Top 5 Trading Partners (YTD to May 2017) China, the United States and Australia continue to maintain the top three positions as our key seafood 100% Economic review 6% 4% 4% 3% export partners. Spain saw a decrease in export value 1% 2% 1% 9% of the seafood industry to May 2017 2% 1% during this period, primarily due to the lower volume of 90% 8% 2% 8% 2% Welcome to the latest update on the economic performance of New Zealand seafood. This edition provides provisional 3% squid and ling exported. 8% 6% 6% data for the year to date to May 2017. 80% The graph to the right shows diversity in the mix of KEY RESULTS FOR THE PERIOD: 33% products for the top five export countries. Welcome to the latest update on the economic performance of New Zealand seafood. This edition provides provisional 70% 56% 28% data• forExports the year totalled to date $753mil to May for 2017 the. period, with China continuing to be the top market by value. Top 10 Export Countries by Value (YTD to May 60% KEY• RESULTSThere was FOR a slightTHE PERIOD decrease: of 3 percent in export volume 2017) 1% overall. 50% Country 2017 2016 % Change 9% • • ExportsSalmon totalled exports $753mil have grown for the by period, 27 percent with Chinacompared with 82% continuing to be the top market by value. 1 80% the same period in 2016. China $218m $251m -13 40% 1% • T here was a slight decrease of 3 percent in export volume 17% 2 overall. United States $119m $110m 8 4% 30% 6% • Salmon exports have grown by 27 percent compared with 3 Australia $100m $105m -5 54% the same period in 2016. 4 Japan $45m $41m 10 20% EXPORT STATISTICS 28% 5 Hong Kong $22m $22m 0 27% 10% 6 EXPORT NZ$FOB* EXPORT TONNES South Korea $21m $19m 10 7 Spain $20m $34m -41 0% EXPORT STATISTICS China United Australia Japan Hong All figures in this section are based on export data Finfish species accounted for 75 percent of the total 8 Thailand $16m $20m -20 States Kong provided by Statistics New Zealand and analysed by export volume with shellfish (including paua) FinFish Mussels Other EXPORT NZ$FOB* EXPORT TONNES 9 Canada $16m $10m 60 Seafood New Zealand for the year to date to May accounting for 13 percent and squid accounting for 9 Other Crustacea Other Molluscs Oysters Rock Lobster Squid 1 0 South Africa $12m $10m 20 All2017 figures. in this section are based on export data Finfishpercent species. Overall accounted there was for a 7slight5 percent decrease of the in totaltotal provided by Statistics New Zealand and analysed by exportexport volume volume with of 3shellfish percent (including when compared paua) with the Seafood exports to the end of May 2017 totalled Seafood New Zealand for the year to date to May accountingsame period for in 13 2016. percent and squid accounting for 9 NZ$753mil with more than 127,760 tonnes exported. 2017. percent. Overall there was a slight decrease in total EXPORTS BY SPECIES EXPORTS OF MAIN COMMODITIES Export volume (YTD to May 2017) = 127,760 Export value (YTD to May 2017) = NZ$753m export volume of 3 percent when compared with the Salmon saw a 27 percent increase in export value, Exports of fish, crustaceans and mollusc, for the first Seafood exports to the end of May 2017 totalled tonnes same period in 2016. along with toothfish and jack mackerel which also saw five months to May 2017, decreased by 5 percent on NZ$753mil with more than 127,760 tonnes exported. increases of over 20 percent but there was also a the same period for 2016. However, overall there was $54m Export volume (YTD to May 2017) = 127,760 decrease in export value for squid and rock lobster, a 5 percent increase in export earnings of all New Export value (YTD to May Squid2017) = NZ$753m 623t 400t 1,079t $116m tonnes Other Oysters Rock when compared with the same period in 2016. Zealand’s main commodities partly due to a 21 percent 1,433t Lobster 11,659t Rock Lobster Molluscs increase in dairy export value. Other Squid $5m $54m Crustacea TOP 10 EXPORT VALUES 2017 2016 % Change Oysters Squid 623t 400t 1,079t (NZ$) $397m Oysters Rock NZ EXPORTS OF MAIN $116m 388t Other 2017 2016 % Change $12m Finfish 1,433t Lobster 11,659t COMMODITIES (NZ$) Rock Lobster Other Molluscs Mussels $120m $128m -6 Other Other Squid Molluscs $5m Crustacea Milk powder, FIGURES QUOTED Rock Lobster $116m $146m -21 5,688m 4,699m 21 Oysters FIGURES QUOTED butter, and cheese ARE IN $397m ARE IN $44m 388t Hoki $68m $73m -7 $12m NZ$ Finfish Meat and edible Other Other TONNES 3,287m 3,179m 3 Other offal Crustacea Molluscs Squid $54m $76m -29 FIGURES QUOTED 15,986t Logs, wood, and FIGURES QUOTED 1,737m 1,650m 5 ARE IN Mussels wood articles $44m ARE IN Mackerel, Jack $32m $26m 23 NZ$ $5mOther TONNES 96,192t CrustaceaOther Antarctic Toothfish $29m $24m 21 Fruit 1,307m 1,234m 6 Finfish 15,986t Salmon, Pacific $28m $22m 27 Fish, crustaceans, $120m Mussels 678m 714m -5 and molluscs Mussels Crustn, Molluscs $5m $22m $19m 16 96,192t extract Other Wine 641m 596m 8 Finfish Ling $21m $22m -5 $120m Mechanical Mussels Orange Roughy $20m $22m -9 machinery and 617m 674m -8 equipment Source: Export data, Statistics NZ. Total Exports 22,265m 21,229m 5

Source: Export data, Statistics New Zealand, Seafood New Zealand. Source: Overseas merchandise trade, Statistics NZ. FOB = Free on board. The value of export goods, including raw material, processing, packaging, storage and transportation up to the point prior to loading on board ship.

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Contact Russell Hughes, Gough on 027 434 5613

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