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14 Cover story: Kaikoura 06 Perilous perceptions 12 Salt of the ocean: Inventive High’s outdoor classroom engineer Bill de Beer 33 Getting CRA 2 right 05 Skipper backs code 37, 38 Events: Havelock and 20 Summer snapper strong Whangarei seafood festivals

24 Sir Tipene’s customary 39 Recipe: Thai prawn fritter formula 40 Travel: Fish soup in the South of France

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Seafood New Zealand | April 2018 | 3 EDITORIALS COVER FEATURE Published by Seafood New Zealand Ltd.

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It’s said that every cloud has a silver lining and our cover feature focuses on one positive to emerge from the earthquake that hit the Kaikoura coast so hard in 2016. The way that students from Kaikoura High have become involved in the rejuvenation of the paua fishery is ISSN 1172-4633 not only a good example of how the seafood industry can work in with the community to the benefit of all, but also offers the possibility of Editorial enquiries: Email: [email protected] generating enough enthusiasm in young people to lead them towards a worthwhile career in our sector. PauaMAC3 chairman Jason Ruawai Advertising enquiries: is to be commended for this initiative. Seafood New Zealand reporter Karen Olver Matt Atkinson went along on a Sounds field trip with the group, and his Phone: +64 (0)4 802 1513 words and pictures are on pages 14-17. [email protected] Sir Tipene O’Regan was a powerful leader as Maori and the Subscriptions: government of the day worked towards the Sealord settlement. He Seafood New Zealand is published for the was also a key figure in the way that Maori customary fishing has been New Zealand seafood industry. It is also cemented into the fisheries legislation. In a detailed interview with available on subscription in New Zealand and editor Bill Moore, reported on pages 24-27, he outlines the evolution overseas. Subscription rates are available on of the customary fishing rules, explains how they work in practice - and request. Seafood New Zealand is produced bi-monthly (six issues per annum). tells why Maori are more concerned about the recreational than the commercial inshore take. Your Say: We’ve also got coverage of the unusual snapper season over the Contributions of a nature relevant to the summer just ended, and what rising sea temperatures could mean for seafood industry are welcomed and industry the future; interviews with a West Coaster who’s been fishing for more participants are encouraged to contribute. than 40 years and is still skippering his own trawler, and with a retired Letters to the Editor should be signed and engineer who fitted electronics to much of the New Zealand fishing carry the writers’ full names and addresses. fleet; and the views of just-departed Sanford chief operating officer General: Greg Johansson as he contemplates his next career move. He says The reproduction of articles and materials that until recently the industry has done a poor job of telling our story published in Seafood New Zealand, in whole to New Zealanders and that there are many fascinating stories to be or in part, is permitted provided the told. We agree. That’s what we aim to do, and we hope you find that source and author(s), as applicable, are this issue of Seafood New Zealand informative and entertaining. acknowledged.

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Long-time skipper backs code of conduct

Bill Moore

Allan Rooney

Fishing off Ross, south of Greymouth, a lot and we do a lot of stuff we get no gurnard in mid-March, he said at that in his boat Tanea, Allan Rooney recognition for.” time of year he would normally be after doesn’t need to be reminded of what He said it made him mad to see the flatfish, “but we’ve had a bit of a bloody the Seafood New Zealand Code of whole industry criticised for the poor hurry-up with those cyclones”. Conduct includes. “I’ve got it right in behaviour of a few renegades, to the “They stripped all the rubbish off the front of me,” he says on the phone. point that he sometimes asked himself if beaches – flax bushes, gorse bushes, he wanted to carry on. logs and trees. We can’t get inside Rooney, a telephone lineman and “There’s not that many of us left and 30 metres without having bloody big part-time fisherman for 10 years before the majority really play the game. The whoopsies. Until we get a week of sou’- going full-time in 1985, didn’t hesitate perception is that we’re no good. west down here to blow it back up the to back the code and display it in his “When you’ve got NGOs sniping at beach we’ve got to hang out a bit.” wheelhouse. us friggin’ daily, it’s pretty hard work. He intends to keep fishing “as long Soon to turn 64, he said in his fishing They get the media, if they put shit in, as I’ve got crew that enjoy it”, Rooney career out of Greymouth and Lyttelton they get front page and if we answer said. he had seen practices change for the that we get a paragraph on page 3.” “I still enjoy it, but some of the shit better, long before the code came He sees The you’ve got to bat along. He started using tori lines ahead Promise and the off – you get sick of of them becoming mandatory – firstly to code as important “The code trying to explain to protect his longline baits, he admits. steps in turning people.’’ “It was no good putting a hook in the around public of conduct is Seafood NZ took water if it didn’t have a bait on it, not perception and is its 13-port Code of thinking about the birds as such, but it a fan of Graeme not just a Conduct roadshow did the same thing.” Sinclair’s Ocean document to to Greymouth in He’s also been running five-inch Bounty series on late codends since 2002 and extols their commercial fishing. gather dust.” February and success in minimising small-fish capture. That had changed to New Plymouth, Back fishing out of Greymouth for the some people’s Tauranga and past four years after 12 years working attitudes, Rooney said, and he’d seen Whitianga last month. Chief executive from Lyttelton, Rooney, who owned the same result from taking farmer Tim Pankhurst said the industry had the Robert H for 19 years, said he’d friends and an old workmate from his made huge strides in environmental been around for a long time and seen pre-fishing days out on his trawler. care, protection of endangered species a big improvement in the conduct of He didn’t know any fisherman against and transparency, yet conceded it had fishermen over the years. the code, he said. not always got it right. “There’s still bits that need tidying “We need to change the perception. “The code of conduct is not just a up – for example correct TACCs, and If you’re a fisherman in Norway, you’re document to gather dust,’’ Pankhurst a minimum size on all species. That actually respected. If you’re a fisherman said. “We want it in every wheelhouse would make life a lot better all round for in New Zealand, you’re looked down and boardroom and that’s why we’re everybody. But as far as cleaning the upon.” travelling the country to reinforce its industry up, it’s already cleaned itself up Interviewed while trawling for importance to skippers everywhere.”

Seafood New Zealand | April 2018 | 5 OPINION

The perils of perception

Tim Pankhurst

Last month the Ministry for Primary The experts in reputational us back a few percentage points and Industries released a report on management will tell you that many this year’s will do at least that - but New Zealanders’ views of the primary factors are behind a surge in companies probably more. This needs to be a sector. addressing trust and reputation. constant in the industry’s planning for Foremost is the increasing reliance by the future. The 148-page report repeated the the public to draw their news from social We know we are a more responsible, questions asked in a benchmark media and the increasing use of social more sustainable, more innovative study in 2008 that explored urban and media to spread misinformation, or fake and more environmentally-conscious rural New Zealanders’ views of the news. industry than we have ever been, but we agriculture, horticulture, forestry, food, It is a difficult battle to fight. Those need the public to believe that as well. aquaculture and fishing industries. same reputational experts will tell you MPI’s study points out that the Fishing did not fare well, with both that the public distrust three out of four participants in the study talked about urban and rural respondents having the institutions in New Zealand and that the need for transparency and more least positive view of fishing compared 61 percent of people believe search accurate information to help guide to all other surveyed industries. Only engines and social media over human useful conversations that were currently 40 percent of rural respondents and editors (39 percent). more influenced by partial and often 39 percent of urban respondents held This week’s MPI report did show negative information from media positive views about the fishing industry. that there are some in the public who platforms. No comparison on the previous study acknowledge that negative media That is why underpinning our Promise is available as fishing was not included reports resulted in the full picture not campaign with a code of conduct is in 2008 but the findings are no surprise. being visible to the general public. essential. We should be living by the And nor were the reasons why. They One respondent said: “The media code – and most of us are. believe we overfish, have a “poorly- will highlight anything that is wrong and The very last quote from a managed” quota management system, suddenly the Green Party go to town respondent to MPI’s study says: “I think and have high rates of bycatch. on it.” Another said: “But then the my overall attitude is that I really like Seafood New Zealand is now in other primary industries, the wineries, our primary industries but I really want production for year two of the industry’s the sheep and cattle, the fisheries, them to do better. I don’t want them to Promise television campaign, which was they are all doing great things for the disappear, I just want them to be nicer.” specifically designed to address the country and I think those farmers are Wise words. public perception of the industry, gain doing amazing sustainable things but trust and grow reputation. you only see them if you watch Country Reprinted from the Seafood NZ Update, Reputation is the number one issue Calendar.” Yes, quite. a weekly online newsletter. Email facing industries and corporations All of which reinforces the need [email protected] to subscribe globally. Without reputation and trust for the seafood industry to continue the so-called social contract to operate the journey to turn the tide of public is diminished. Put simply, a negative perception by telling our stories and public view of an industry will not only telling them well. affect bottom lines - it also influences It will not be an overnight fix. government policy. Last year’s Promise campaign clawed

6 | Seafood New Zealand | Volume 26 No 2 OUR PROMISE

This is our promise to every New Zealander. A promise about one of our most valued and treasured resources. We are the men and women of the New Zealand seafood industry and we want you to be proud of each and every one of us. We promise to be guardians of our oceans and to continue finding new ways to lead the world with sustainable practices – right now and for decades to come. We may not always get it right, but we’re committed to always exploring ways to do things better. We have nothing to hide and much to be proud of. So come with us and share our stories at seafood.co.nz.

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.

Seafood New Zealand | April 2018 | 7 We give our word NEWS

Deadline set for float-free beacons

Float-free distress beacons will soon become compulsory for commercial fishing vessels in a move welcomed by the industry.

Operators will need to install float-free EPIRBs on all applicable commercial fishing vessels by January 1 next year, as one of five maritime rule changes to rules made recently by the transport minister. The new requirement was prompted by recommendations from coroners and the Transport Accident and Investigation Commission, following the deaths of 24 people over the last 11 years on inshore fishing boats that sank. Float-free EPIRBs will automatically deploy and activate when submerged in water. Maritime New Zealand general manager maritime standards Sharyn Forsyth said crews in those incidents had manual EPIRBs on board, but were unable to activate them. “We want to give people plenty of warning of the new requirement in the lead up to next January - we hope this notice period will assist operators who are replacing their old EPIRBs over the coming months. This new measure will save lives,” Forsyth said. The new rule was introduced Sharyn Forsyth with a float-free beacon and its housing, which has a hydrostatic release to pop the following consultation, and applies to cover off and release the submerged beacon. fishing vessels of between 7.5 metres and 24 metres operating outside Other changes to the Maritime –– Fishing boats - remove the enclosed waters (i.e. outside harbours, Rules, that came into effect on 15 requirement for fishing boats estuaries and other inland or sheltered March, remove outdated requirements, operating in some areas to carry waters). allow for new technology, and reduce a radio with narrow-band direct New Zealand Federation of compliance costs: printing. This is an old technology Commercial Fishermen President Doug which has been replaced by modern Saunders-Loder supports making float- –– Tugs - allow the use of current radio systems in many countries, free EPIRBs compulsory. international stability criteria set by including New Zealand. “This is a practical change that will “classification societies” for towing –– Sailing vessels - allowing for make commercial fishing safer and help operations. modern design, and removing the save lives - a core business and priority –– Fishing boats - allow more requirement that manual bilge for our organisation,” he said. modern satellite search and rescue pumps must be operable from The Rescue Co-ordination Centre has technology as an alternative to above the deck. issued a reminder that beacons can be radar transponders on fishing registered for no cost at vessels operating beyond 200 www.beacons.org.nz nautical miles from the coast.

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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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The hull of Sealord’s new vessel enters the icy waters of Flekkefjord, Norway, in this picture taken earlier in the year.

An artist’s impression of the finished vessel at Excitement building at Sealord sea.

Work on Sealord’s new state-of-the- deep water, it has a highly-automated The vessel will be welcomed at a special art factory freezer trawler is nearly processing system and ergonomically ceremony in Nelson when it arrives in complete and excitement is building designed work stations for its 80 crew. New Zealand. about its arrival at Nelson in June. The interior has been devleoped with Sealord says its addition to the fleet Scandinavian flair and includes two is an exciting opportunity to experience Workers at the Simek shipyard in living areas, a purpose-built gym and fishing aboard New Zealand’s most Norway were last month putting the quarters designed for single or double advanced trawler, designed to provide finishing touches to the accommodation use only. There are TVs in every room, a fresh, modern environment for life aboard the yet-to-be named $70 million and wi-fi throughout. at sea, and a high comfort level in any 81.75 metre vessel, which will take The hull was launched into Flekkefjord weather. Two experienced skippers the New Zealand deepsea fleet to a in January. Among the large crowd that have been appointed, with expressions new level.Designed for New Zealand braved sub-zero temperatures were of interest for crew positions still able conditions and crew and with the Sealord chairman Whaimatu Dewes and to be made by contacting the Sealord speed to target pelagic species like general manager group operations, recruitment team at jack mackerel when not fishing the Doug Paulin. www.sealord.com/nz/careers/

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Bill de Beer at Port Nelson’s Fishermen’s Wharf.

Straight-talking engineer has helped many Debbie Hannan

As New Zealand’s deep-sea fishing Systems), while studying for his National His arrival when the fishing industry industry expanded from the mid- Certificate at night. While at AEI was beginning to expand was perfect 1970s, behind the scenes fitting he maintained electronics for large timing. it with the latest technology was shipping companies and also tutored Originally based in Auckland, de “honest Bill”, an electronics engineer deck officers and radio officers so they Beer’s involvement with the Nelson with an impressive background in could look after their electronics at sea. fishing industry began with a short trip post-war Britain’s marine and military His work involved quite a bit of travel so there in December 1973 to help fit the electronics. he sought a transfer to the company’s development department where he Bill de Beer, his wife Fay and their two worked on systems for civilian and young children arrived in New Zealand military purposes. in September 1973. Bill and Fay, fed up One of his career highlights came out with Britain’s industrial troubles at the of an impromptu visit from Canadian time, wanted a new life. academic Dr Glen Schaeffer to his With an impressive CV but no job workplace, asking if they could adapt lined up, de Beer started applying, their radar for him to track birds and landing one with the then AWA deduce their wingbeats. De Beer leapt (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia). on the project and worked on it with Dr Amsterdam-born, he had gained Schaeffer in his spare time. Academic his background in electronics in post- papers were published and the war Britain, gained a Higher National technology was used around the globe Certificate in electrical engineering in for tracking birds and locusts. Britain. De Beer loved his work at Marconi. He had worked for the electronics “It was creative, interesting and I had company, Cossor (which supplied excellent colleagues,” he said. New Zealand’s Met Office with weather But the urge to build a better life for radar) and Associated Electrical his family was strong, leading to their

Industries (AEI, later Marconi Radar 1973 emigration. Bill de Beer pictured during sea trials on a vessel in Norway in 1962.

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A Nelson Mail story published to mark Bill de Beer’s 2001 retirement. Bill de Beer’s radar reflector in action.

latest electronics to a Sealord vessel Nalder and Biddle. to sea, he said he’d never forget a that had sunk at the wharf. Working “Dick Potton of Nalder and Biddle five-day trip to the Challenger Plateau closely with skipper Mike Connolly he used to call me ‘honest Bill’. I could talk on Sealord’s Seafire, skippered by Mike was home in time for Christmas. to him without offending him.” Jackman. The Nelson manager was impressed During his 17 years with AWA de De Beer’s sea legs weren’t strong. and asked for de Beer to join him in Beer saw the fishing industry grow in the He suffered from seasickness and this Nelson. The family began their Nelson sophistication of the technology it used was a rough trip so he took himself off life a few weeks later, in January 1974. along with catch to his bunk to try Most of de Beer’s work was on fishing sizes and prices it and sleep through a vessels, earning him the trust of industry received for its fish. rough patch. leaders and their skippers and crews. He reckons “In the early On another trip “I used to say, when I go to a job the biggest leap stages of GPS on Sealord’s Whitby, I like to meet the people who work forward came with skippered by Mike the equipment and those who run the Global Positioning the vessels would Connolly, the sonar organisation.” Systems (GPS). Prior was secured through Not shy about speaking his mind, he to its introduction have to wait for its hull with the hoist said he would tell those who needed to there were a limited between 10 to 15 mechanism housed hear what had to be done, no matter number of satellites underneath the what their position in the company. and high-power hours to bunks. One of those people was the then echo sound gear The boat hit a managing director of Sealord, Charles which coincided get a fix.” wave, forcing the Hufflett, telling him the old electronic with the roughy gear up through the gear on the company’s vessels was too boom in the 1980s. bunk, giving de Beer unreliable and frankly suggesting that “In the early stages of GPS the the fright of his life. while vessels with ageing technology vessels would have to wait for between A big career highlight came when a were tied up for maintenance they could 10 to 15 hours to get a fix.” consortium led by Robert King-Turner, be out fishing, making money. The later speed that GPS offered in gathered the money to build a new “We always had a good rapport.” gaining a fix on a rich fishing ground vessel, the tuna purse-seiner Western He built similar relationships with meant the system would pay for itself in Pacific, at Anchor Dorman in Nelson. the staff and heads of other fishing one trip, de Beer said. “We advised on the right type of companies as well as those that serviced No stranger to many of the skippers equipment and fitted out the vessel with the shipping companies including and crews, with work often taking him the latest technology. It was probably

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the biggest job we did. I had several something simple and inexpensive that and process development. His younger rewarding projects in my life where I felt could be made relatively cheaply by son Martin works in the industry, starting ‘this is it’. This was one of those.” local sheet metal companies. at the Ministry of Fisheries, moving The Western Pacific was one of The design was adapted by the later to Sanford and more recently with two tuna purse-seiners built by the New Zealand Maritime Authority as Dave Woods on Precision Seafood consortium. The other was the Western part of its marine farm standards. De Harvesting, ensuring the de Beer Ranger, built by the Whangarei Beer published a paper for NMIT on the innovative streak continues to add value Engineering Company and skippered by technology. to the seafood industry. King-Turner. “I’m originally from the Netherlands And Bill de Beer, now 84, keeps up AWA made the decision to get out of and support the Kiwi ‘can do’ attitude. with the latest technology. His skills its interests in Nelson in 1989 – a “sad Why buy foreign expertise when you have proved helpful to his grateful occasion” for the team, de Beer said. can produce something locally and neighbours (including this writer) He turned to freelancing before help create work for people in your when they need assistance with home being offered a role at the Nelson community, wherever that happens to electronics and computer systems. Polytechnic (now Nelson Marlborough be?” Institute of Technology). It coincided This was the last big project for de with the polytechnic’s purchase of a Beer before his retirement in late 2001 bridge simulator which de Beer took and it gained local and international over responsibility for, modifying it to industry and media attention. include realistic sound effects. A retirement message from the Bill de Beer’s radar reflector in action. During the next 10 years he not only Maritime Safety Authority’s Tony Date worked on the fishing school’s gear, was a fitting tribute to his contribution he also trained hundreds of skippers to the industry: in electronics, many of them now “Your way was a very special way and working across the fishing industry in many seafarers owe a great debt either New Zealand and the Pacific. directly or indirectly for the contribution His skills were enlisted by the nearby you have made to seafarer training.” Tasman District Council to work with Many who read this article may it and the Maritime Safety Authority not have known Bill de Beer but the on a project to improve boating safety surname will be familiar – his son Robert around marine farms. Marine radar worked for Sealord in quality assurance reflectors had been around for many and customer services where he met his years, but de Beer wanted to design wife Janet Smith who worked in product

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Seafood New Zealand | April 2018 | 13 WHILE THE PAUA HARVESTING BAN ON THE KAIKOURA COAST CONTINUES, YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE TOWN’S HIGH SCHOOL ARE WORKING WITH THE INDUSTRY TO WATCH, LEARN, AND HELP OUT WITH THE STOCK’S RECOVERY.

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Kaikoura High School students, teachers and Jason Ruawai back in Picton after visiting the hatchery. Photo: Matt Atkinson

Paua industry and Kaikoura High team up

Matt Atkinson

Kaikoura’s devastating 2016 for students. The Paua Industry Council 130 kilometres of highly productive earthquake is taking students from is also providing support. coastline, resulting in widespread die- the town’s high school into an The local paua fishery was left in offs of paua and other marine animals, outdoor classroom as they learn first- crisis after the 2016 earthquake, with as well as significant habitat loss. hand about the damage to the paua 50 percent of PAU3 (Kaikoura coast) Platforms as large as a square industry and how to fix it. put under a harvesting ban that will kilometre were thrust out of the ocean, continue until at least November. leaving immobile and slow-moving The students visited a hatchery in the Ruawai is providing the technical animals with little chance of survival. Marlborough Sounds last month to learn know-how on the shellfish for the Last month 26 students - split about breeding and raising juvenile teachers and students. between a joint year 9/10 class and paua, before taking part in a reseeding “It’s about providing the aids - year 13 biology - visited a hatchery on programme in May. providing the samples for dissection, Arapawa Island in Tory Channel. PauaMAC3 chairman Jason Ruawai picking sites according to tide and “We want to promote a bit of interest received funding from the Ministry for weather for field trips to do transects,” with some fun stuff in year 9 and 10, and Primary Industries Earthquake Recovery he said. get them wanting a bit more by year Fund to collaborate with Kaikoura High The earthquake and resulting coastal School to create a paua-centric syllabus uplift had a dramatic impact on over

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Juvenile paua in a tank. Photo: Matt Atkinson

13, and hopefully they take on special holding tanks, after which they approximately 100,000 juveniles to biology and we can do a bit more fancy are moved to 20 larger “v-tanks” to be be out-planted in Kaikoura this year. stuff,” Ruawai said. left for seven to eight months, Radon The students will be partaking in the The hatchery is run by Mike and said. releasing of these into the wild and be Antonia Radon. They have been “We like to have an average of 10 able to do follow up surveys on mortality breeding paua for 15 years and have a millimetres, or more, and growth,” complex set-up to grow them before and then they are Ruawai said. release. released into the “The function Born in the United States, Mike wild.” “We like to have of the field trip Radon started diving for abalone in 1964 Radon is a firm an average of 10 is so they can and describes paua as “one of my big believer in re- see them in their passions in life”. seeding as a method millimetres, environment, pre- “Paua is a renewable resource that for enhancing paua release, so they can should last for thousands and thousands beds, even with what or more, see how they have of years into the future. All we have to may seem like a low and then they been raised up until do is manage it properly,” Radon said. success rate. now and apply that It is tough business breeding paua, “In the long- are released to what happens in where you can start with 10 million eggs, term, I think it is the the wild.” but only end up with 100,000 juveniles most cost-effective into the wild.” “We’ve picked for re-seeding. way of helping the a couple places “Only the strong survive,” Radon industry.” in Kaikoura in the said. Ruawai said the trip to Arapawa earthquake affected area, but we’re Males and females are induced into Island served as a precursor to a re- still monitoring it because of the effects spawning, and then eggs and sperm are seeding programme the students will along that coastline are still very fluid.” mixed together. Thirty hours later, the take part in sometime in late April or Ruawai is hoping the hands-on fertilised eggs hatch. early May. approach will inspire some to take their The larvae are raised for nine days in “Mike and Antonia have reared paua studies even further.

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“If we developed post-earthquake “Then they have to do a fair bit of enhancement item. some students that carried on into research around what the paua industry “It’s always been great to do it with tertiary education and pursued a degree is about, what are the issues with it, the school as we get good publicity - in the marine environment and perhaps what do they think can be done to everyone wants to know what the kids focused their study or thesis on the help solve those issues, and make a are up to. Kaikoura earthquake, which they have recommendation at the end about what “But not just that, but the awareness been a part of since their school days, they see as sustainable going forward.” the kids give through the community, that would be an amazing story. Student Claire Booker said she was talking to their parents and stuff like that. “But, just to promote the opportunity surprised to see the technology and It’s been a really effective way of telling of learning from such a disaster is a win innovation behind paua. the story of enhancement.” in itself.” “It was so cool to just see all of Year 13 teacher Jo Fissenden said the work they do behind the scenes,” doing hands-on was a good way to Booker said. get the students thinking about how “What they are doing to sustain the biology can be applied in the real world, paua, hopefully, it’s actually going to “getting them used to that idea that help and make a real difference to the everything out there has a link to what ecosystem.” they are learning at school, rather than Whilst it is the first time a paua-centric it being something really vague in the syllabus has been run, the local divers classroom”. have worked with Kaikoura High School The course is part of the Year 13 for the past three years performing a NCEA requirements. re-seeding programme - although on a “It’s Education for Sustainability smaller scale. Achievement Standard,” she said. “So Teaching the students about the they get six credits out of the work they effects of the earthquake was an do from it, but they have to take part in important way to engage the community, an action, so coming out to the hatchery Ruawai said. is part of that - they have to take part in “We’ve always self-funded ourselves the reseeding. within out quota membership for an Jason Ruawai

Juvenile paua tanks.

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STCW-F, what the F is that? Chris Carey

Chris Carey

On Sunday March 4 the International your toys, it will only apply to seafarers work in New Zealand, the CoR will be Convention on Standards of Training, working on NZ-flagged fishing vessels accepted at face value (in its STCW Certification and Watchkeeping of: format) for use on fishing vessels. for Fishing Vessel Personnel, 1995 · 24 metres or more, or Some rule changes relating to Marine (STCW-F 1995) came into force in · with engines of 750kW or more, and Engineer Class 4 (MEC 4) and Marine New Zealand. · operating outside the 12-mile Engineer Class 5 (MEC 5) certificates inshore fishing limit. will not come into force until 2023. The The STCW-F convention sets minimum Ring-fenced or “Legacy tickets” MEC 4 and MEC 5 certificate guidelines mandatory standards for crews of are not affected and holders of these will be updated to include relevant seagoing fishing vessels of 24 metres CoCs can continue to operate on information. in length and above and consists of New Zealand flagged or registered GMDSS tickets are also not affected. 15 articles and an annex containing fishing vessels until they choose to retire The ADH-F, while not yet part of the technical regulations. or they turn their toes up. convention, is under discussion and will The convention has been ratified by As an aside, tickets issued for use on depend on whether other states support 21 member states including Canada, fishing vessels were largely aligned with New Zealand’s proposal. Denmark, Iceland, Kiribati, Latvia, STCW-F way back in 2014. Renewal of STCW-F CoCs Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Norway, Holders of New Zealand STCW-F Existing Certificates of Recognition Palau, the Russian Federation, Sierra aligned national certificates working (CoR) issued by Maritime New Zealand, Leone, Spain, the Syrian Arab Republic, overseas (or planning to do so in the and STCW-F aligned national Ukraine and the Faroes. future) can apply for replacement certificates, will remain valid until expiry By establishing international certificates as these will be more useful after which holders of those certificates standards of certification for seafarers for those wanting to work overseas. will need to obtain an STCW-F. on fishing vessels, the convention aims Check out this link: Any new certificates issued from the to promote safety of life and property https://www.maritimenz.govt.nz/ 4th March 2018, will be under STCW-F at sea, and protection of the marine commercial/certification/replacement- format. Check out this link: environment. certificates.asp https://www.maritimenz.govt.nz/ Interestingly, neither the USA nor So which tickets are affected? commercial/certification/documents/ Australia have signed up to it yet and The CoCs affected by this convention Renewal-STCW-F-Aligned-Certificates. while Japan has signalled an intent to are; pdf become party, this may not be for some · Master SFV (Limited and Unlimited) Recognition of foreign CoCs years. Korea is also interested in the · Mate MFV (Limited and Unlimited) The convention enables recognition review. · Chief Engineer MEC 4 (<3000kW) of STCW-F certificates between party It is important to note the STCW · 2nd Engineer MEC 5 (>750kW) states which means Maritime NZ can’t and STCW-F are separate conventions; As the MEC 1, MEC 2 and GMDSS recognise any certificates in an STCW-F for all intents and purposes the STCW certificates are deemed to be capacity issued by non-party states covers merchant vessels, the other corresponding certificates for STCW-F which may be STCW-F certificates or fishing. purposes, there is no need to transition other types of certificates. So what does this mean to Kiwi them to STCW-F. So Jim-Bob with his US Coastguard fishermen? So, if Mary holds an STCW MEC STCW-F is wasting his time applying In simple terms, from March 4 2 and she wants to work as a chief for jobs here because his government only STCW-F tickets are valid on engineer on a fishing vessel, her STCW has yet to ratify the convention and New Zealand flagged fishing vessels. MEC 2 certificate will be accepted at Maritime NZ won’t recognize it. STCW-F aligned national certificates face value for use on fishing vessels (she However, fishermen from Canada or are acceptable, as are STCW MEC 1, will not need paperwork to state that it Denmark can apply to work here (on a MEC 2 and GMDSS certificates which is an STCW-F equivalent). New Zealand fishing vessel) because are deemed to be corresponding Equally, if Olga holds a foreign this country recognises their STCW-F. Of certificates for STCW-F purposes. STCW MEC 2 certificate and then gains course, whether they get a job is down Hang on, and before you throw a Certificate of Recognition (CoR) to to meeting the requirements of the

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New Zealand employer. So what does it mean to a Kiwi govt.nz or check out their website. Maritime NZ will still be able to heading overseas? For further information about recognize Australian certificates even Well, Kiwi fishermen with STCW-F STCW-F try these links; https://www. though Australia is not party to the CoCs can expect to have their maritimenz.govt.nz/public/news/media- convention as New Zealand included a qualifications and training recognised releases-2018/20180214b.asp https:// reservation when we signed up to the by other member states. www.maritimenz.govt.nz/public/news/ convention to make sure that we can However, that won’t necessarily media-releases-2018/20180214b.asp still uphold TTMRA. guarantee you a job; that’s entirely up to https://www.maritimenz.govt.nz/public/ A foreign-flagged fishing vessels the employer. news/media-releases-2018/20180214a. calling in to New Zealand ports will What STCW-F does provide is an asp need to demonstrate that its crew internationally recognised standard of meets an equivalent standard and while training and competency providing a the power to inspect a vessel is not degree of protection for New Zealand new, there is a new rule that requires companies when employing foreign foreign fishing vessels to meet the same fishermen and likewise for foreign standard of certification. companies employing Kiwis looking for work overseas. For more information, you can contact: seafarers@maritimenz.

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Chris West with a good fish. Elevated view of rearing tank set up at Bream Bay. Photo: Crispin Middleton

Strong summer snapper season Matt Atkinson

The hottest summer on record has normal sea surface temperature was the and knowledge that Golden Bay has brought an unusual snapper season cause, West said. traditionally been better after Christmas, for some. “I’ve never ever seen them flee in Tasman Bay is better pre-Christmas.” November. Sure enough, the after-Christmas run of A marine heatwave raised sea surface “So you’re talking about six weeks snapper showed up in Golden Bay. temperatures two to six degrees above earlier they disappeared than the year Warmer seas average, causing a change in the before. New Zealand’s warm seas this behaviour of snapper. “Watching the water temperature summer were brought by a La Nina Motueka’s Chris West has been rising I got the bit of a feeling that we climate system. fishing for the prized catch in Tasman are going to crack that 18 degrees really During a La Nina, easterly trade and Golden Bay since 1981 and said he early if these temperatures keep going winds blow faster across the Pacific had never seen them spawning so early. the way they are going. Ocean, pushing warmer waters to the “Late October, early November was “Sure enough by about the third west and into Australasia. exceptionally good,” West said. “To the week of November it went well past 18 NIWA’s principal scientist for point where I was actually trying to keep and that was it - the fish were gone.” forecasting Chris Brandolino said those away from it. The change in pattern for the weather setups could have a domino “Fishing was too good and if you snapper also changed how he fished effect on pressure systems in our part of bone your snapper quota out too quick, over the summer months, he said. the world. then you haven’t got anything to do for “December and January were very “Ocean temperatures in the Tasman the rest of the summer.”’ light on the snapper, but we managed Sea have ranged from anywhere two to In Tasman Bay, the snapper were to keep things ticking over with other six degrees Celsius above what is typical being caught one day and then were species. for the summer,” he said. gone the next – and the warmer than “It was just a matter of being patient, “A La Nina can create more

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northeasterly winds than usual in warmer we could expect to see greater cut” at looking at the direct effects New Zealand and that gives us higher abundance of juvenile snapper being of ocean acidification and increased chance for more humidity, warmer produced. temperature on fish in New Zealand temperatures, and for some it will be “That may not hold for all snapper waters. dryness and for some it will be a lot of stocks. It looks like it holds for Hauraki “Most work in this area overseas is wetness.” Gulf and Bay of Plenty. conducted on small, tropical reef fish. A hoki trawl survey measured sea “We’re are not sure what happens To be able to look at the effects of temperatures over the summer on the elsewhere, but we do know in Tasman climate change on such a highly valued Chatham Rise, finding it was a couple Bay/Golden Bay, there are some years, commercial, customary and recreational of degrees above normal, although and they are usually cold years, when species as snapper in New Zealand is a the warm surface layer usually only there are hardly any juvenile snapper first for us and very exciting,” Parsons extended to 50 metres deep. surviving at all. said. La Nina generally occurs every three “Overall, I think yes, you will see an The study is a collaboration between to seven years. This was the second increase in abundance as the average NIWA, University of Auckland, James year in a row that New Zealand had temperature goes up.” Cook University in Australia and CARIM experienced the weather system. In La Nina years, a higher proportion (Coastal Acidification, Rate, Impacts and These patterns bring large storms of easterlies tend to retain the eggs and Management). which are formed the larvae close It began earlier this year, when adult where warm bodies to the coast also broodstock were spawned at Bream Bay of water occur, contributing to a and their eggs placed in tanks under Brandolino said. strong year-class, four different conditions. More snapper in “Overall, I think he said. Eggs and larvae are used as they years to come However, as are most vulnerable to environmental Studies completed yes, you will see an also noted by change. Each tank was stocked with nearly 30 years ago West, there thousands of eggs. could provide key increase in could be a point In one set of tanks the temperature insight into how the where sea surface is 18 Celsius, which matches normal snapper fishery will abundance as the temperature could conditions at the time of spawning. look in years to come. get too warm. In other tanks the temperature is 22 NIWA’s principal average “I would say C, closer to sea surface temperatures fisheries scientist there could be for reached this summer. Dr Malcom Francis temperature snapper, but we Carbon dioxide levels are being kept studied snapper in don’t know what it at present ocean levels in the third set the Hauraki Gulf to goes up.” is. At the moment of tanks, and then raised in the fourth estimate year-class the year class set of tanks to match those expected at strength and develop strength keeps the end of this century. a recruitment going up over the During the first 35 days, after the prediction model. temperature range we’ve measured, eggs hatched into larvae but before Francis said he looked at how long but if it got too hot, you might see a they became juvenile fish, scientists snapper larvae would spend in the reduction in snapper abundance in the monitored how fast they grew, plankton before settling, which was far north. I’m not predicting that, but it photographed them, and counted how dependent on the water temperature. is a possibility,” Francis said. many died. “If it is warmer they grow faster Study to show the future “While it will take a lot of evidence and they settle sooner, which I reckon At NIWA’s Northland Marine before these kinds of issues can be built probably reduces the amount of Research Centre they are running an into management advice, this is a start mortality,” Francis said. experiment to understand the effects at figuring out the scale of the issues “I was able to show that when of ocean acidification and warmer sea and how they might unfold over time,” summer autumn temperatures, between temperatures will have on snapper. Parsons said. about February and June, are higher, Scientists are putting the snapper you get a strong year class in the larvae through comprehensive physical Hauraki Gulf.” testing - including a full medical check- Thus climate change could have up involving smell, hearing, vision, and major implications for New Zealand’s even anxiety testing. favourite catch. NIWA marine ecologist Dr Darren “It suggests that as temperatures get Parsons said this research was a “first

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The changing snapper name story

Cathy Webb

From March 15, the iconic species snapper exports to the USA to continue importers. snapper is being exported to the unimpeded, remembering that we were Not wanting to give up, the last option United States by a new name – sea legally required to label the species as was to put an application to the FDA bream. snapper in New Zealand. for approval of an alternative name – It is fair to say that it was clear at that this is of course what the industry did, Snapper is still the legal common time that the FDA was highly unlikely agreeing on sea bream as an acceptable name for the species Pagrus auratus to recognise snapper as a name for alternative. An application was prepared in New Zealand and is recognised as our species and the industry continued and submitted via a US importer to acceptable to the other markets we to operate without making a formal the FDA in November 2017 and was export it to. Unfortunately, the United application, and thankfully rarely accepted by the FDA. States only recognise species from the experiencing problems. Prior to using the new name, the FDA Lutjanidae family as snapper and our However, the issue was raised again had to complete its legal changes, and of snapper is from the Sparidae family. last year after publication of a series of course the Ministry for Primary Industries This story began around 30 years “fish fraud” and “misleading labelling” had to make it legal for industry to be ago. The first incident I have on record articles in the US referencing snapper. It able to use it, and thus the March 15, occurred in the early 1990s where an FDA was becoming increasingly obvious that 2018 was the date agreed by the industry inspector queried the use of snapper the industry needed to progress this and to roll out its use. on labels for Pagrus auratus. Another it was agreed that the Ministry for Primary While this is a story that doesn’t end incident occurred which resulted in the Industries would seek approval from the with the ultimate outcome we were all rejection of a consignment at the US FDA for the use the name “New Zealand hoping for, it is a good example of the border in 2013, again for mis-labelling snapper”. industry, the Seafood Standards Council with the use of the name snapper. Unfortunately that was rejected by the and the regulator working together to At each occasion the industry with FDA and the response confirmed that resolve issues. For me it also highlights the support of the ministry at the time, the only acceptable market name for that the world of fish names is complex, now the Ministry for Primary Industries, the species Pagrus auratus was porgy or and despite this being an issue that was made an attempt to seek resolution squirefish. Neither was acceptable to the over 30 years old, I fear it is only just of the naming issue and to allow New Zealand industry or many of the US beginning.

22 | Seafood New Zealand | Volume 26 No 2 Calling all seafood industry stars

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Sir Tipene’s formula still working well

The Maori customary fishing puts on the marae table for visitors were that the precedent it set would lead to “a regulations are generally working well, no longer available and if they were whole lot of sinners” in the commercial with the growing recreational take the available, there were a whole lot of sector “just tearing into the resources major threat to its future, Sir Tipene busybody Pakeha bureaucrats charging with impunity”. O’Regan tells Seafood New Zealand around issuing fines.” Deciding to stay with the standard editor Bill Moore. Southern Maori began planning regulations in the meantime, it began what were called rahui zones, giving giving evidence against the Maori Maori customary right seafood allocation management to local Maori communities, lawbreakers and put up blacklists on has a long, complex and sometimes even of the commercial take. marae while it began negotiating a combative history but in the end the Revolutionary at the time, this led to a different outcome for the treaty rights. quantum came down to a simple formula parliamentary select committee on Maori “And while we were in the middle of worked out by Ngai Tahu leader Sir fisheries, and in turn to the concept of that process and actively negotiating, the Tipene O’Regan. taiapure, a small constrained area. Crown did a Pearl Harbour exercise on “The question was, how constrained? us … While we were sitting at the table He surveyed Ngai Tahu’s 18 marae Then the Waitangi Tribunal came through they smacked in the 1986 Maori Affairs around the South Island to find out and said the whole of the Manukau Amendment Act. Well, it was all on.” what their members thought would be a Harbour. Well, that just about blew the A Labour government was in sufficient quantity to serve fish to three lid on everything.” power and Sir Tipene said the first sets of visitors a week, and give him an Debate was intense, Sir Tipene said. Maori reaction was one of horror and annual total for each marae. He told “It got mainly down to the assertion indignation, with the situation heavily them to be generous with the estimate if that ‘you Maoris can have as much fish clouded by the activity of the One they wanted to. as you like, as long as you catch it with New Zealand Foundation and a few “The debates went on and on. flax nets and bone fish-hooks, and you commercial fishermen, and racial Eventually I got my numbers and added paddle out to the fishing grounds’. prejudice showing through. them up for the whole island. I said, “That was formerly what the Crown “It was an exciting time – trying to sort ‘That’s ridiculous’. So I multiplied it by 12 position really was – I’m not joking – and out the nature of a customary right versus and gave it to the Crown. that was almost where the fishing industry a commercial right versus a recreational The Crown looked at it and said, got to, in association with the Crown.“ right.” ‘Is that all? Well what are we worried Then came the sensational case of The Quota Management System was about?’.” Tom Te Weehi, a Maori of North Island being progressively introduced at the The formula was accepted and applied descent, who was convicted of illegally time and Maori sought a string of legal across the whole of New Zealand. Three fishing on the Canterbury coast and injunctions to stop more species being decades on it still does, and Sir Tipene made a successful appeal to the High added. said it posed no risk to the future of the Court, arguing that he had a right to fish Finally before Justice Greig in the inshore fisheries. there. High Court at Wellington, Ngai Tahu The protection of Maori treaty rights Ngai Tahu had backed Te Weehi’s argued that historically it had fished to fish had been part of New Zealand position, saying he had been given on a subsistence basis, using food law since the 1860s, but drew renewed permission, and Justice Williamson found preservation techniques of air and wind attention in the 1980s, with growing that under the Fisheries Act, a Maori drying and storing fish in their own fat, recognition on one hand that fish stocks fishing in his own tribal territory, with the and that it had traded its surplus with were under pressure in some areas and agreement of his peers, was not bound other Maori and, before the Treaty, with on the other, Maori concern that the state by the fishing regulations. Sydney, in its own ships. was limiting their access to traditional The case caused “a tremendous “Justice Greig concluded that there food-gathering areas. hullabaloo” and was a turning point, Sir was clear evidence that the Maori right in “There was a much-voiced resentment Tipene said. their fisheries as per the Treaty consisted that the traditional treasures that one Ngai Tahu was desperately worried of subsistence, recreational, but most

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importantly the trading of surplus for barter was a commercial act, so therefore the nature of a Maori fishing right included commercial use. That was the end of bone fishhooks, that was the end of flax nets, and with the Greig decision, the Crown sued for peace.” Then came the Maori Fisheries Working Party chaired by Justice Wallace, with Treasury and other officials and four Maori fishing parties – Ngai Tahu, Tainui, Muriwhenua and the New Zealand Maori Council representing all other Maori. Sir Tipene O’Regan “We were beginning the Bluff waterfront for trailers. And the Hauraki Gulf, that’s what’s happened to to define what a customary right looked islands and islets, not just on Rakiura these other prime locations. They’re the like, and we were coming down to the (Stewart Island) itself, but around the ones that Maori get particularly incensed principle that the Maori customary right island, are totally prone to this.” The about.” should be for collective purposes - if a figures for the He shared Maori was fishing as an individual person Kaikoura Coast, a strongly held for his own personal use, he fished on between Kaikoura “That’s what’s Maori view that the his citizen’s recreational right. So we and Haumuri Point recreational sector, were classifying this collective purpose, were appalling, he happened to the in particular charter centred on provision for the marae. I’d said. At the time boats, should have become particularly informed on this of the negotiations Hauraki Gulf, that’s to carry quota, Sir subject because my own marae in Bluff an average of four what’s happened to Tipene said. has a particular body of experience in commercial boats a The customary both customary and commercial fishing.“ day worked there all these other prime right is excluded Sir Tipene said there was no difficulty year round. from the deepwater dealing with the articulation of the “You come to locations. They’re the fishery, past the 12- property right factor in the TAC and the Christmas-New ones that Maori mile limit, a boundary commercial ITQ. Year three weeks, resulting from a “We had somewhat more difficulty the average was 72 get particularly historical measure with the recreational right, because for boats a day. Here’s taken by Captain many Maori their real enemy is not the the other bit, some incensed about.” James Cook when he commercial industry, it’s the swarming of those boats were encountered double recreationalists. Foveaux Strait, believe out three and four canoes fishing on the it or not, is almost as densely occupied times a day, catching their limit every Chatham Rise, 12 miles offshore. as the Hauraki Gulf on a fine weekend day. It was impossible to police, and the “The definitions and named fishing afternoon – there’s fewer of them resource was getting hit by a bomb. grounds off the coast didn’t matter a perhaps, but you can’t get a park on “That’s what’s happened to the stuff either to the Tribunal or the courts,”

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The Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 is passed into law.

he said. “You got a Pakeha man with a up the road, then it should be free to do because so many of our people are number, 12 miles, so it applies across so. It’s not anyone else’s business to tell commercial fishermen,” he said. the whole country. That’s the formal us what to do. But we readily agreed, “There’s been a bit of a surplus of late division between inshore and deepwater absolutely no pecuniary gain.” with oversize cray. The marae has been – it’s got nothing to do with depth, and Customary take is provided for in the the beneficiary of those because they’re ignores for example that hoki, treated as TACs but Sir Tipene said he didn’t think of low value so we’ve quite often had a deepwater species, have their young the limit had ever been reached. There cray that we could send up to the rest inshore. Those are the sorts of things might be a heavy take in a few areas homes. Even the social community you come across and you say, ‘This is during the summer holidays but overall events in Bluff would be supported as nuts’.” the allowances weren’t exceeded. There long as there’s no money-raising off it.” Maori decided not to fight that was some diving but marae mainly relied It was not the case that customary issue at the time and concentrated on on commercial fishermen bringing them take was just a way for Maori to get having the customary right enshrined for fish for which a customary permit was more fish than other New Zealanders, Sir collective use, with permits issued by a given. Tipene said. Maori collective – usually a marae - and “It’s kept separate and delivered up “It’s got to be non-pecuniary and it’s not ever to make money, but the catch to the marae.” got to be authorised. You can’t just go doesn’t have to always be for Maori Sir Tipene’s own marae in Bluff is and get it. We have nominated people consumption. known for its hospitality and generosity, who will issue the authorities. We keep “If my marae wants to have customary often sending fish to other marae for quite a close tag on that and it’s all fish caught and it wants to give the tangi and special occasions. reported. But I have to say, quite often surplus away to the old people’s home “We don’t have a problem in Bluff our own fishermen bring us fish for the

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maraes and that’s hugely appreciated. absolutely crucial for Ngai Tahu, and why Quite often we haven’t ordered it as it my own people have forgiven me for it, Sir Tipene O’Regan, 79, is a former were, but they’ll say, ‘I’ve got some fish, I I’m buggered if I know. long-serving chair of the Ngai Tahu Trust can sell it but I know you’ve got a couple “I made some fundamental missteps, Board and of Sealord Group Ltd. He of tangis coming up’. We’ll issue a but on the whole, if I look at the whole was instrumental in the 1992 settlement permit and take it down to the wharf.” thing in balance, my own people have giving half of Sealord and 20 per cent of On the overall question of the way done quite well, and most of the tribes future new quota to all Maori though a Maori fisheries issues have been argued are doing better and better every day. collective shareholder, Aotearoa Fisheries and resolved, Sir Tipene said he was “We’re getting a better texture and Ltd. He continues to hold a number of deeply unhappy about some of what had shape to New Zealand over the time I’ve directorships and a variety of academic happened. been involved in it. I’ve been able to roles and government appointments. “I gave away some points in the play some part in that and I won’t die too fisheries settlements which were unhappy with my mistakes.”

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Report positive on wild harvest

Nearly 97 percent of New Zealand’s wild harvest in its closure in 1997. 2017 came from sustainable stocks, a new report –– A 2015 assessment for snapper along the north and from the Ministry for Primary Industries says. west coasts of the South Island showed that it has increased substantially in size in recent years and is The Status of New Zealand’s Fisheries 2017, released last now well above its biomass limits and approaching month, summarises fish stocks nationwide and paints a its management target. positive picture for the industry. –– Stock assessments for six red gurnard stocks Of assessed landings, 96.5 percent were made up of from 2013-17 show that they are at or above their stocks above the “soft limit” (a biomass level which a management targets in virtually all areas where they stock is deemed to be overfished or depleted and needs occur. to be rebuilt if below) and 83.6 percent of assessed stocks were above the “soft limit”. Highlights from the report include: –– As a consequence of substantial reductions in hoki quotas over the period 2001-2007, both stocks of hoki (eastern and western) increased in size consistently over nearly a decade, and have recently levelled off at a biomass well above their management target range. –– The Puysegur sub-stock of orange roughy was assessed in 2017 and found to have fully rebuilt since

Aquaculture’s rise detailed

Aquaculture produced more fish for human 62 crustaceans, six frog and reptile species, 9 aquatic consumption than wild capture for the first time in invertebrates, and 37 aquatic plants. 2014, a new report from the United Nations’ Food “Asia as a whole has pushed far ahead of other and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said. continents in raising per capita farmed fish production for human consumption, but huge differences exist That year aquaculture - with more than 60 percent of among different geographic regions within Asia,” the production coming from China – accounted for 73.8 report said. million tonnes of seafood. The State of Fisheries and Aquaculture report said global seafood farming would be increasingly pivotal in feeding the world as the population rose from the current 7.6 billion to an estimated 9.7 billion by 2050. Wild fish capture has remained relatively static since the late 1980s, while seafood farm production rose from 7 percent of fish for human consumption in 1974 to 26 percent in 1994 and 38 percent in 2004 before passing the 50 percent mark. The report said 580 species or species groups were being farmed around the world in 2014, including 362 finfish types. There were also 104 species of molluscs,

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All at sea on wedding day

Nelson’s Wells family is closely linked to the seafood industry and scalloper Gavin Wells brought his boat Echo into play for the wedding of his daughter Megan to Sam Grindrod.

Echo delivered first the groom, best man and groomsman and then the bridal party to the Sunderland Marine Pier, where they were married. It also took them to Haulashore Island at the entrance to Port Nelson for pictures to be taken. The couple live in New Plymouth.

Gambling broker to pay $35,200

A fishery broker in Christchurch who took $387,225 Chapman, a director of Pipeline Consultants Ltd from seven fishing companies and lost it all through admitted six charges of dishonestly using documents online gambling has been ordered to pay back and and one charge of obtaining money by deception. $35,200 – less than 10 per cent of what she took. She was a quota broker who took large payments, some bigger than $100,000, for ACE, but never transferred it to In the Christchurch District Court Michele Susan the companies. The companies, not named in the Stuff Chapman, 46, was also sentenced to 10 months of report, were based in Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson, home detention and 200 hours of community service. Timaru, Warkworth and Blenheim.

Bogus bream angers Aussies

Seafood Industry Australia is fighting government executive Jane Lovell said that the decision was “beyond approval for a company to trademark the name belief”. ‘’Kariba bream’’ for the imported species tilapia. Widely farmed in Asia, in the wild tilapia destroy native plant and fish habitats in freshwater systems and Bream is a diverse group of fishes so this list contains 51 are also classed as noxious in New Zealand. It is illegal to different species that can use the name bream. “Kariba breed, sell or release them. bream” is not even on the list, yet alone one of the species allowed to be called bream, SETFIA said. It said the importer Fisher Direct stated on its website that it chose the name ‘’Kariba bream” because in Africa it is called this. However, an ABC investigation had determined that the fish was from Indonesia. “Kariba bream” is actually tilapia, it said, with no attempt to hide this on Fisher Direct’s website. The New South Wales Department of Primary Industry website states that tilapia is listed in the top 100 of the world’s worst introduced species and is a class 1 noxious fish in all waters of NSW. Seafood Industry Australia chief

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Fantastic future for industry

Bill Moore

Greg Johansson

Sanford chief operating officer Greg What have been the highlights of one turned out well, others didn’t. Johansson has stepped down after your long career and what will you The number one highlight for me four years in that job, and a total of remember most clearly? is working with teams of amazingly 27 years in various roles with the talented people at all levels of the company. There have been so many that is business that will go that extra mile for Your biggest catch impossible to even skim the surface each other and who constantly surprise He was responsible for all of Sanford’s but in broad categories they all revolve you with their capacity to cope with inshore, deepwater and aquaculture around people, projects and the what this industry throws up each day. activities, and represented the listed environment that we work within. I fell I’m very proud to have been part of that. could be your worst company, one of the industry’s big into this industry and fell in love with three in New Zealand, on a range of it because of the amazing people you What are the best things about stakeholder groups and joint ventures. interact with on a daily basis and the Sanford? nightmare In this Q and A with Seafood NZ he says amazing experiences it offers. Its gets in that the industry has a fantastic future. your blood and you’re hooked for life. Apart from the people that I have Vessel/business acquisitions and already talked about, Sanford’s long On the sea floor of Cook Strait, 350,000-volt Severe Penalties apply – don’t jeopardise power cables and fibre optic cables link the your livelihood What first got you involved in the commissioning projects are always term vision and total dependence on amazingly challenging but so rewarding. seafood for its existence means that North and South Islands, delivering essential Under the law, any vessel of any size, fishing seafood industry? electricity and communication to households or anchoring in the CPZ may be subject to Growing the deepwater fleet capacity all decisions are based on what is best and businesses throughout New Zealand. significant legal penalties. These sanctions I got into the industry in 1986 by within Sanford was a huge part of for the sector or the species, not our At Transpower, it’s our job to keep this energy cover any equipment that may be used for fishing accident really while on my big OE. my early career. Opening up new bottom line. There is no grey at Sanford, and communication flowing over land and or anchoring deployed over the side of a vessel After heading to Alaska to make my opportunities like the Ross Sea toothfish things are either black or white, if they under sea. That’s why we have a vital interest in the CPZ. fortune in the oil industry, I ended up fishery 21 years ago and seeing that are grey, we treat them as black. Doing in the protection of our undersea cables from Penalties apply to both the master and vessel on the back deck of a fishing boat in achieve MSC certification and be held the right thing is paramount as we damage caused by fishing and anchoring in owner, including fines up to $100,000 for fishing the Cook Strait Cable Protection Zone. or anchoring, and up to $250,000 for damaging the Bering Sea. This was my first ever up as world best practice. Gaining have no Plan B, that is if the marine As a maritime professional, fishing in the a submarine cable. In addition the Court may experience of working on a fishing access to the South Georgia toothfish environment or fish stocks falter, so Cook Strait area, the safety of our country’s order forfeiture of the vessel and Transpower may vessel, which lead to four seasons fishery. Both of these projects gave do we. Every asset our publicly listed critical power and telecommunications take legal action to recover repair costs, which working in the salmon and herring me exposure to inner workings of company owns relies on a healthy connections is literally in your hands. could exceed $30–$40 million. fisheries in Alaska and a winter spent international diplomacy at the highest and productive marine environment, Respect the Cable Protection Zone (CPZ) Don’t take chances. Refer to the publication trawling for cod in Iceland. On returning levels. social acceptance of our industry and Cook Strait Submarine Cable Protection Zone. If you are fishing or anchoring near the CPZ, This is located on the Transpower website home, I did some inshore longlining out Being sent to Namibia in 1997 consumer confidence in our product. know your exact location by checking the www.transpower.co.nz of Napier and albacore trolling in the with an old trawler, a pickup truck, a relevant charts. These include: NZ 463, SW before joining the MFISH scientific fishing licence and US$10,000 to start NZ 6212 and NZ 615. Alternatively contact 0800 THE GRID or Does the New Zealand public 0800 843 4743. observer programme. Sanford hired me a business catching orange roughy. My understand and appreciate the Should you snag your anchor or fishing equipment on a cable, do not try to free it. in 1991 as a trainee vessel manager and riding instructions were clear: “When contribution the industry makes to the rest is history. you’re out of cash and options, send the Instead, record your position, abandon your Catch fish... employment and the economy and if gear and advise Transpower’s patrol vessel boat home and get on a plane.” That not, why not? (“Seapatroller”, Channel 16 or cellphone not cables 0274-442-288) or Transpower of the situation immediately.

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I don’t think so because so much of of the value chain. Supply challenges have done my job or achieve the things what we do is out of sight, undertaken will come from high volume, lower I have without the massive support I in remote locations or over the horizon. value products but as New Zealand have from my wife Michelle and the kids’ Until recent years the industry had done supplies less than 0.5 percent of global understanding of the demands made on a very poor job of telling our story to supply, we must not be dragged into my time. New Zealanders and there are many competing in this part of the market. fantastically interesting and exciting Globally New Zealand is seen as world- What’s next? stories we have to tell. leading, our biggest challenges come domestically both internally within the This is not a retirement, all I’m wanting What do you see as the biggest sector and externally on the societal and to achieve through this change is challenges facing the industry in the political fronts. reducing my working week to an next 20 years? Are you optimistic average of 40 hours. My intention is about its future? Any regrets? to remain working within the seafood sector and contributing in whatever way I have no doubt that the industry No big regrets on the work front, I I can. Michelle and I want to fit some has a fantastic future. Demand for would do it all again but working less travel around my work and take the time marine protein will continue to grow hours next time around. The operational to smell the roses occasionally. and with our added advantage of the side of the industry is a hard task master New Zealand provenance story, we need and I have missed a lot of family time to ensure that we are at the higher end over that 27 years. I certainly couldn’t

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Photo: Lat37Ltd Getting CRA 2 on the right track

Mark Edwards

New Zealand rock lobster fisheries are (Total Allowable Commercial Catch) be put in place. Estimated recent poor internationally regarded as being well reduction was made in April 2014. No recruitment appears to be a driving managed and our industry has taken changes were made to the recreational factor in compromising the rebuild of a key role through its investment in allowance or management controls such the fishery. science and research, including stock as bag limits. Industry also voluntarily At their February 2018 AGM, the monitoring, data collection to inform retired 50 tonnes of the available CRA2 industry supported a 50 percent stock assessments, and pioneering catching rights (25 percent of the TACC) TACC reduction from 200 to 100 the use of harvest control procedures in each of the 2016 and 2017 fishing tonnes. They did this following careful to guide management decisions. years (at a cost of $8.4m in landed examination of the best available science Although there is an ongoing need value to the operators). The CRA2 and with their primary focus being to for active management to deal industry also continued its decades-long ensure a clear rebuild trajectory for the with environmentally driven cyclical investments in comprehensive log book stock with a high degree of certainty, variations in abundance, most stocks and catch sampling programmes, a tag even in the pessimistic scenario where are assessed to be at healthy levels. release and recapture programme, and estimated recent poor recruitment more recently a puerulus monitoring persists. Te Ohu Kaimoana and entities However, for the CRA2 fishery, from East programme. But these measures have representing iwi supported this position. Cape to the northern Hauraki Gulf, we not yet halted the stock decline or Because of the long-term view the are in the situation we sought to avoid, initiated a rebuild. fishery must come first, this substantial despite best efforts. Why is this the case? The 2017 stock assessment is more cut was supported despite the serious Based on the best available science at conservative and suggests the stock is impact on the CRA2 operators, the time, a management procedure was below target levels, and just under the associated businesses and iwi who implemented and a 15 percent TACC threshold where a rebuild plan must rely on income generated from CRA2

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landings. recreational catches. Over the years when Government to improve the effectiveness The multi-sector National Rock the TACC reduction and industry ACE of measures to combat illegal take, Lobster Management Group, comprised shelving were implemented, there was no to ensure that the rebuild of the of recreational, customary Maori, and change to the recreational allowance or fishery provides benefits to customary, commercial representatives together with any restraints on aggregate recreational commercial and recreational fishers, not MPI policy and science personnel agreed catch through management controls. to fish thieves. an interim target of double the current The minister has set the recreational The CRA2 industry has made a biomass, and following consultation, allowance at the 2017 Fishery Assessment commitment to offer a reward of $5000 identified two options for consideration Working Group catch estimate of 34 for provision of information to MPI that by the Fisheries Minister. tonnes. Some recreational groups sought supports a successful prosecution for The Fisheries minister’s decision, an allowance at a higher level. Within illegal take for sale or trade of rock announced on March 26, was to reduce the NRLMG and in submissions to the lobsters from CRA2. the TACC to 80 tonnes and set the statutory consultation process there were The outcome for the stock from these recreational allocation at 34 tonnes. The strong objections to providing for an decisions will now be dependent on new TACC is even more conservative increase in recreational catch when the recruitment, the actions taken to measure than industry recommended and should stock is depleted and the commercial and manage recreational fishing, and the achieve a rapid rebuild to the interim sector was facing further severe cuts. effectiveness of compliance initiatives to target in about four years with average The minister’s decision to set a new clamp down on illegal removals. Industry recruitment, and perhaps double that if recreational allowance is interesting and is aware that it will be more important recent poor recruitment continues. precedent setting, not only because it than ever to maintain their commitments The decision will result in substantial uses best available information on current to research and stock monitoring. socio-economic consequences including recreational take to set the allowance, In a few years there is a reasonable loss of revenue and equity in assets, but the minister acknowledges the expectation that the decisions taken in vessels off the water, loss of employment, obligation to control recreational catch combination with the investment and inability to service debt and for some, to the allowance by adjusting regulatory voluntary industry initiatives will rebuild a forced exit from the CRA2 industry. controls in a timely manner. He has this important fishery and enable a There will be impacts on iwi beneficiaries announced a commitment to meaningful reinstatement of the TACC and sharing of who rely on ACE and fishing revenue, adjustments to controls on recreational the benefits of a healthy stock status with and impacts on associated business take through measures such as reduced customary and recreational fishers. such as LFRs, provedoring, engineering bag limits and closures to be put in and transport services, and downstream place by October 1, 2018. The minister’s Mark Edwards is chief executive of the impacts on some small Coromandel and decision letter also acknowledges the New Zealand Rock Lobster Industry Bay of Plenty coastal communities. value of the management procedures Council. There were 28 vessels operating used in rock lobster fisheries, and in CRA2 during the 2017/18 season. recognises they should operate to control An analysis of quota share and ACE removals at the level of the TAC, rather ownership suggests that a TACC than just focus on the TACC. reduction to 80 tonnes could result in Given the stringent measures put in more than half that number of vessels place to ensure stock rebuild, improved retaining insufficient catch entitlements arrangements to monitor recreational to legally operate (there is a 3 tonne catch must be put in place so that minimum ACE holding) or no longer decision-makers have timely and reliable being economically viable. It is difficult information through annual survey to be precise about how many operators estimates. The current surveys every 5-6 will be off the water because there will years will not be adequate. be some redistribution of ACE and quota The minister also outlined his shares following the decision. expectation there will be increased The NZ RLIC will work with the compliance focus from MPI to reduce CRAMAC2 board to provide professional the levels of illegal unreported removals. support and advisory services for In order to better inform the stock affected CRA2 operators and to consider assessment, MPI need to review the measures that might assist restructuring outdated estimates of illegal take, and and the inevitable adjustment of business commit to new resources and undertake arrangements. specific initiatives to combat poaching The other key component of the CRA2 and black market activity in CRA2. TAC decision is the allowance made for The NZ RLIC will work with the Photo: Dan McRae

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A New Zealand King Salmon farm pictured on a perfect Marlborough Sounds day.

King Salmon decision ‘months away’

Matt Atkinson

A report by a panel of experts in the Marlborough Sounds is an issue behind moving farms to high-flow has recommended moving three where all interests are best served by locations. New Zealand King Salmon farms the Crown working alongside local “Specifically, the panel in the Marlborough Sounds but government and iwi to find the best acknowledged the ‘distinct Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash says outcome.” environmental advantages’ for benthic he won’t be rushed. The health as a result of recommended relocation, alongside The report, written by an independent three farms to be “I intend to ’minor or less than panel, was delivered to the previous relocated are: minor’ effects on Government in July 2017, recommended –– Otanerau discuss the report the local king shag moving three of the farms, whilst leaving Bay in Queen species and the another three where they are. Charlotte with a number wider water column,” The panel considered shifting sites Sound to Tio of people, agencies he said. from their current low-flow locations Point in Tory “We can see that to high-flow sites would enable better Channel and iwi who are a positive decision environmental outcomes and long-term by the Government –– Waihinau Bay following this increased production. to Richmond would contribute However, the relocation has been put Bay South in issue closely.” to even better on hold by Nash, who in February, said Pelorus Sound environmental, he was still “some months from making social and economic –– Ruakaka Bay to a final decision”. outcomes for our Horseshoe Bay “I intend to discuss the report with region without in Pelorus Sound a number of people, agencies and iwi increasing the space we occupy. who are following this issue closely,” he NZ King Salmon managing director “This proposal aligns very well said. Grant Rosewarne said the panel’s with our new government’s vision for “The management of aquaculture decision upheld the scientific rationale swimmable waters, green jobs and

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strong regional development.” relocation of the farms to the high-flow navigation, cultural, natural character The three-person panel was made sites. and landscape effects. up of former Environment Court judge Of the three farms the panel declined However, Rosewarne said innovation Professor Peter Skelton, and Ron to recommend moving, Blowhole South in the sector had made parts of the Crosby and Alan Dormer - all highly was defined as an Outstanding Natural report defunct and the Government experienced resource management Landscape. should reconsider declining the farm experts. Under the NZ Coastal Policy moves. In their report, they dismissed Statement 2010, which guides “The report is now six-and-a-half opposition to the minister using his local Government on its day-to- months old: it’s already out of date,” powers under the section 360A-C day management of the coastal Rosewarne told BusinessDesk in Resource Management Act (RMA), environment, the site is to be protected February. 1991, and said he was not exceeding his as the development of it “would “One of the objections is visual jurisdictional power under the law. adversely affect the qualities which impact - that was mentioned in the three The provisions allow the minister to render the location ‘outstanding’.” farms that were declined ... there is make new regulations under 360A of The Blowhole North relocation was new infrastructure that has a 90 percent the RMA to change the Marlborough halted based on “predominantly cultural reduction in visual impact. This is a Sounds Resource Management Plan and navigational concerns”. stunning reduction in six months, and (MSRMP) and enable relocation. The Waitata Mid-Channel relocation the board didn’t consider that. Currently, the MSRMP prohibits was declined for a combinations of “It also mentioned navigation problems - there are stunning navigational aids now which are virtually invisible to the naked eye but light up like a Christmas tree when something approaches.” Each relocated farm was recommended to be consented for 20 years. Having shorter consents could persuade the industry to continue to innovate – particularly in the area of on-shore or off-shore developments which were more economically and environmentally sustainable, the panel said. “The evidence both from MPI and NZKS was that such economic viability was not there at present, but was anticipated to be available in a time frame of about 10-15 years.” “However, we remain concerned that human nature, and the reality of balance sheet bottom lines and the need for dividend payments, often result in the expense of capital-intensive major change in production methods or locations being avoided, or merely deferred, if that is possible. “We consider this industry will actually benefit from a continuing and looming pressure of shorter term consents as to the need to continue to research and develop alternatives methods or locations for production.”

Five of the proposed locations

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Excited timekeepers look on as Kono’s star opener Angela Fredericks nears the end of her record-setting performance.

Kiwi Can volunteers Sarah Bone and Angus Adams Nadia Lim mid-demonstration. Monica O’Donnell, 14, and Ollie Rush, 6, from spreading goodwill in the large crowd. Picton, with their temporary ‘I love Havelock’ tattoos applied by Aquaculture NZ in the industry marquee. Havelock festival hits the mark

Star Kono mussel opener Angela everything else about the festival success of the March 17 festival meant Fredericks beat her own world record came up to that level as well.” The they would be pleased when the by more than four seconds when range of seafood and produce stalls proceeds were distributed. she opened 100 mussels in 1m51.4 had been popular and the cooking seconds at the Havelock Mussel and demonstrations by celebrity chef Nadia Festival results: Seafood Festival. Lim were a hit. It was Neilson’s first year as organiser Best commercial stall, Sanford This was one highlight of a festival that and he said he was full of enthusiasm for Limited; best community drew the biggest crowd in years, partly the future. stall, Havelock Menzshed; best mussel due to the appeal of roots reggae band “My vision is to grow it to become creation, Kono NZ (coriander and the Black Seeds, who wound the day up the best festival around seafood in lime infused mussel); best seafood with a performance that had many of New Zealand. I’ve already started having dish, Havelock School; best mussel the estimated 4500 patrons dancing. discussions with other acts to see about float sculpture, Graeme Smith; Organiser Hans Neilson said the what we can line up for next year to Window display contest: Commercial day had exceeded expectations, with make it bigger and better.” division, Bow to Stern NZ, 1; Havelock the Black Seeds engaged to “take the He said the whole purpose was to Healthcare Pharmacy Depot, 2; Not festival to a whole new level”. raise money for community groups for profit division, Pelorus Community “The coolest thing was that in the Havelock-Pelorus area and the Preschool 1; Havelock School 2.

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Local band Furious3 had the crowd dancing. Judge’s Choice winner Power Plant.

Fritter festival fires up Whangarei

It was a successful day full of food, Ray McVinnie, who was a judge on place.” drinks and dancing at the annual My Kitchen Rules NZ and MasterChef The winning idea came via a team Whangarei Fritter Festival. NZ j, was tasked with picking the best competition in-house where everyone fritter on the day. was given a chance to come up with a Held at Toll Stadium, it was the sixth He selected local organic store Power fritter, he said. running of the popular event. Plant’s northern corn fritter topped with The events teams were not about to Whangarei District Council marketing smokey BBQ jackfruit, bean salsa and rest on their laurels, with planning for and events team leader Rachel raw rainbow slaw, dressed with herb next year’s festival having begun already. O’Gorman said it was a fantastic day guacamole and caramelised onion O’Gorman encouraged those from that went off without a hitch. crème. out of town to come along next year “We got five and half thousand The people’s choice winner was and make a weekend of it. people along and we were lucky with Absolute Caterers, who served up a Thai “We really want to get people up to the weather,” she said. prawn fritter with crab and lime mayo. Whangarei for the festival. We want to Kiwi favourites Salmonella Dub, It was not the first time Absolute showcase what Northland has to offer. Elemeno P, and Strangely Arousing took Caterers and his team had tasted victory, “It is a real awesome place to come the stage, along with a selection of local having taken out the judge’s prize twice to, so we want to encourage people bands. and the people’s choice once before. to come to Whangarei and stay for the They provided an awesome General manager Shannon Hauraki weekend.” atmosphere, she said. praised his team who worked tirelessly “They all had a good time, everyone in the lead up and on the day. loved the bands and there was lots of “We definitely went in looking for a dancing.” win,” he said, “not there to take second

38 | Seafood New Zealand | Volume 26 No 2 RECIPE

Thai prawn fritter with a crab and lime mayo

Makes 8 fritters feeds a family of 4

Thai base paste ¼ red capsicum diced Mix together till smooth 50 gms coriander fresh ¼ tsp salt (add as to taste) Coat prawn disks and place into hot oil 1x red chilli (charred) Fry till golden and centre is cooked 25 gms shallots Add prawn meat, white fish, onion, 10 gms ginger fresh spring onion, capsicum and mix till Crab and lime kaffir lime mayo 1.5 cloves garlic combined 3 tsp fish sauce Add Thai base paste and mix all ¼ tsp garlic crushed 1 tsp palm sugar ingredients together ¼ tsp whole grain mustard Zest and juice of half a lemon 1 egg yolks Add salt 250 ml oil canola Method 1 kaffir lime’s juice Add mix to piping bag and pipe into 75 gms crab meat (blanched) Add all ingredients to mixer and blitz to disks around 40mm diameter ½ lemon create a paste put aside Layer baking paper on top and freeze (longer it sits the more time the flavour disks Add egg yolks, mustard, kaffir lime juice has to infuse) and zest, as well as lemon juice and zest Batter to a blender Prawn mix Blitz and slowly add oil to yolk mix, 10 gms coriander chopped careful not to pour in fast. Once 250 gms prawn meat (blended but not ¼ tsp. chilli flakes combined and thickened add crab meat pasted) (2nds is good and cheaper) ¼ tbsp salt and lightly fold together. 250 gms white fish (good for binding 1.5 tbsp curry powder and holding prawn together without 1.5 cups chick pea flour Taste with salt and white pepper. altering flavour) ½ cups rice flour ¼ red onion (diced) 1.5 cups water (sparkling water will help 2 spring onions (chopped) make batter lighter)

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Best bouillabaisse keeps him coming back

There are fish stews and fish soups Laird, who had an Auckland seafood cauldron on an open fire, with local … reader Michael Laird says the one company for 20 years and served on fishermen coming to back door each being prepared here for a group of both the FIB and SeaFIC boards for day to help choose the fish for that day’s eight people is the best bouillabaisse more than a decade, returned to the bouillabaisse. in the South of France. restaurant in 2010 for the first time in 34 Diners at Les Tamaris have to order years. the famous dish a day ahead. “I worked here in 1977 and the same “I was surprised that they still it’s also served on corkboard, cut chef 40 years later is still at the helm. remembered me and now go back every from the local cork trees in the hills.” Still outstanding, with the seafood soup two years, as the connection to the still the standout!” family and the area is very strong and Got any seafood industry related travel The picture was taken last month at close to my heart.” pictures? Send them to Les Tamaris seafood restaurant, St Clair, He said the same cooking method [email protected] Le Lavandou, 40 minutes from St Tropez. still applies – all cooked in a large

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