Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today announced a new strategy to guide the setting of catch limits and related management actions for New Zealand's fisheries.
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The New Zealand Government is taking a stand against illegal logging by introducing a new requirement for retailers to clearly display whether they have information about the legality of their kwila/merbau timber and timber products, Forestry Minister Jim Anderton announced today.
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 Iwi Maori and the Crown have reached an early agreement over resolution of pre-commencement' (1992-2004) aquaculture interests in the South Island and the Coromandel, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton announced today.
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A bill to address concerns raised by the High Court has been introduced into Parliament, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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Aquaculture legislation to confirm original intent of aquaculture law reform and help industry develop Two bills amending aquaculture legislation to confirm the original intent of aquaculture law reform and help the industry develop in New Zealand were introduced to Parliament today by Environment Minister Trevor Mallard.
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Aquaculture NZ has become the latest private sector group to sign up to become a cornerstone investor in the NZ Fast Forward initiative, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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The open season for recreational fishers to gather scallops in Wellington Harbour starts for the year on Tuesday 15 July.
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Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton is reminding recreational scallop fishers in the northern half of the North Island that the scallop season now opens on 1 September.
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MARLBOROUGH — The open season for recreational fishers to gather scallops in the Marlborough Sounds and Tasman and Golden Bays starts for the year on Tuesday 15 July.
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Rural and urban New Zealand working together will boost innovation in our primary sectors and boost our economy and living standards, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton today.
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Innovation has underpinned the productivity of our primary industries and will continue to do so in the future, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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Sustainable catch limits, allocations between fishing sectors and recreational fishing bag limits for the kahawai fishery will be reviewed in 2009, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton announced today.
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An international fishing company caught supporting Southern Ocean illegal fishing can now be named and shamed, after a failed attempt to gag the government in the High Court, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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Ensuring New Zealand’s fisheries are sustainable into the future is the key message behind a new teacher and student resource kit launched by Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton yesterday.
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The Court of Appeal has today released its judgement on an appeal following the judicial review of Ministerial decisions in 2004 and 2005 on catch limits and the allocation of kahawai catch between recreational and commercial fishers.
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“Poaching is theft” is the simple message from Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton after the Ministry of Fisheries commenced Operation PAID in the early hours of this morning, breaking up a major paua poaching ring.
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Investment in student learning is a key step in the growth of sustainable aquaculture and the communities in New Zealand supported by it, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said yesterday.
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A statement from National’s Agriculture Spokesman that the Government has done a u-turn to support a meat industry 'mega-merger' shows how little work National has done in Opposition, agriculture minister Jim Anderton says.
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The Agriculture Industry Training Organisation is playing its part in enabling our primary industries to get skilled staff into satisfying careers, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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An attack on public servants by the so-called Flexible Land Use Alliance is being condemned by Agriculture and Forestry Minister Jim Anderton.
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Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today rejected the proposal for a marine reserve covering 495 square kilometres on the northeast coast of Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf.
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Sustainability and a robust Quota Management System is the only strategy to ensure a prosperous future for the fishing industry, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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DANNEVIRKE — The closure and decommissioning of PPCS’ Oringi plant was upsetting and extremely disruptive for workers, their families, and the wider Dannevirke community, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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The SPCA is to receive $300,000 from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to help assist and advise on animal welfare following this year’s drought.
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New research shows that use of illicit drugs like cannabis and P had social costs to New Zealand in 2006 of $1,310 million.
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The phasing in of sectors, such as agriculture, into the Emissions Trading Scheme is a realistic and necessary way to minimise the disruption to the economy and give people and their business time to adjust says Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton.
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CANTERBURY — It will take years to recover fully from this year’s drought, even though recent rains have restored soil moisture in many parts of the country, agriculture minister Jim Anderton told a field day at a South Canterbury Monitor Farm today.
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The Afforestation Grant Scheme is designed to encourage more planting of trees in small forests and on farms.
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Minister of primary industries Jim Anderton is pleased New Zealand is helping contribute to the development of international standards around shellfish farming.
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CANTERBURY — New Zealand needed to find a way to prosper even with a high dollar, agriculture minister and Progressive leader Jim Anderton said today in a speech to an agricultural innovation workshop.
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New aquaculture space of 803 hectares has been approved for industry development Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton announced today.
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WAIKATO — The Aotea Harbour mätaitai reserve has been set up on the south-west coast of the Waikato, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.Â
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NEW PLYMOUTH — Milk is an amazing product and scientists are just scraping the surface of its potential, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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Farming is a great career choice, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today.Â
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Forestry Minister Jim Anderton leaves New Zealand on Saturday to lead a trade mission to India.
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The photographs on display at the exhibition of Fisheries Ministry competition capture the distinctive feeling of New Zealand, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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The efforts of the New Zealand scientific voyage which returned to Wellington from Antarctica today after completing the most comprehensive survey of marine life in the Ross Sea region ever undertaken, have been praised by Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton and Research, Science, and Technology Minister Pete Hodgson.
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The drought currently dogging many parts of rural New Zealand is forecast to cost farmers around $1.24 billion this financial year, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick has today released photographs of dead dolphins killed in trawl nets in December.
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WAIRARAPA — Wairarapa farmers could be amongst the hardest-hit by this summer’s drought, Jim Anderton said today.
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The latest survey of deforestation intentions shows that forest owners intend to dramatically reduce deforestation as a result of the proposed emissions trading scheme, Forestry Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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An action plan to be launched tomorrow will put grunt into the work being done by many agencies on suicide prevention, Associate Health Minister and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said today.
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National’s leaders just aren’t reading the material or listening to a thing the Government and the pastoral and food industries say on the New Zealand Fast Forward fund, Agriculture Minister and Progressive leader Jim Anderton said today He said that National leader John Key had made such a fool of himself over the issue that deputy Bill English had had to step in and take over.
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Parliament passed the bill banning BZP-based party pills into law this afternoon, Associate Health Minister and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said.
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Those backing the continued sale of BZP did not have the best interest of New Zealand at heart, Associate Health Minister and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said today.
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OTAGO — Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today announced the establishment of the Puna-wai-Toriki mätaitai reserve at Hays Gap, south of Kaka Point on the South Otago Coast.
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AUCKLAND — Evidence-based science is crucial both for efficient trade and maintaining our first-world living standards, Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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The Labour-Progressive Government today welcomed the contribution to the climate change policy debate from the ‘Flexible Land Use Alliance’ but warned that the issues are not as straightforward as the group portrays.
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Cabinet has approved the classification of ketamine as a Class C drug, Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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SOUTHLAND — Agriculture minister Jim Anderton is calling on the National Party to clarify whether it still intends to make a $200 million suspensory loan to meat companies to form an export meat company.
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Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today that he was encouraged to see the strong spirit of collaboration operating in the National Drought Committee.
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Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today announced a suite of measures to protect seabirds from being accidentally caught when commercial vessels are fishing.
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Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton says National leader John Key announced a $200 million suspensory loan for the meat industry only after a meeting with the industry.
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John Key is the first party leader since Sir Robert Muldoon to advocate agricultural subsidies for farmers, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton says.
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Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton says that Green Party Associate Health spokesperson Metiria Turei should check her facts and engage her brain before she pens press releases.ÂÂ
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In the House today Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton introduced an amendment to biosecurity legislation that will resolve issues arising from a Court of Appeal judgment.
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KAIKOURA — Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton has congratulated members of the Kaikoura community for their work towards protecting the region’s unique coastal environment by developing an integrated marine management strategy.
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More than 100 hectares of new aquaculture space in the Tasman region has received preliminary approval, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton announced today.
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A draft of the emissions trading regulations for forestry and liquid fossil fuels was released today by Climate Change Minister David Parker and Forestry Minister Jim Anderton.
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Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today congratulated the rock lobster (crayfish) industry in the lower North Island after they announced their intention to voluntarily reduce their catch for the coming season.
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Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton and Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick have today announced the next step in protecting New Zealand’s marine environment.
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WEST COAST — State Owned Enterprises Minister Trevor Mallard today announced that the assets of Timberlands West Coast Ltd are to transfer to Crown Forestry as the SOE can no longer operate as a successful business.
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In December last year, a New Zealand commercial fishing vessel accidentally caught a large amount of deepwater coral while bottom trawling for orange roughy over seamounts near the Chatham Islands.
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Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton leaves for Sydney today to meet with his Australian counterpart Tony Burke.
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Ed Hillary was a great New Zealander, not just because he was one of the first two people to set foot on the summit of Mt Everest, although that was a notable achievement in itself, Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said today.
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Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today asked coastal residents to be vigilant and help protect New Zealand’s precious marine resources during the holiday season.
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Boaties, fishermen, and other people enjoying our coastal waters over summer need to keep their eyes peeled for potential marine pests, Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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While many people will be heading to the beach and casting a line during their holidays, Fisheries Ministry observers will be on commercial fishing vessels, dissecting fish and gathering scientific information to help us manage our fisheries, Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton today congratulated fishery officers on their dedicated efforts which have provided a real deterrent to fishers breaking the rules.
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New Zealand needs to be, and to be seen to be, a responsible exporter of agricultural products.
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Biochar has the potential to create a major carbon sink, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Early in 2008 is the earliest that BZP can now be banned.
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The emissions trading scheme puts sustainability at the heart of our economy.
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MAF engaged widely with people living in the West Auckland and Hamilton spraying areas.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Deliberately aiming high is the best long-term strategy.
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The Pacific region will face huge economic issues if the overfishing isn't addressed.
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MT MAUNGANUI — A high level of community support for the decision to keep the mussel beds closed for a further two years.
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A new interactive website aims to help young people with depression.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Scientists, farmers and policy makers together meeting the challenges of climate change.
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CANTERBURY — The re-built Tegel plant in Hornby contributed to the lives of many families throughout New Zealand, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today at a ceremony to officially re-open the facility.
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This is a reminder of how easily microscopic amounts can be moved from one place to another.
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Strong, resilient communities are important to the New Zealand economy.
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New Zealand needs to be vigilant about campaigns on environmental issues.
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WELLINGTON — Suicide rates have dropped since the peak in the late 1990s but there is no room for complacency.
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The government wants to ensure that raw milk regulations are operating well.
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Biosecurity must facilitate trade whilst protecting NZ's natural environment.
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QUEENSTOWN — Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton presents New Zealand Merino Mana Awards.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Making sure that animals are treated humanely is a job that the RSPCA has been doing since 1824.
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Wood takes less than a tenth of the energy of steel and concrete and is cheaper.
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Identifying best practice to reduce seabird bycatch being prioritised.
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Animal testing has an important role to play in ensuring safety for both humans and animals.
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COROMANDEL — This season is looking particularly healthy in the Coromandel scallop fishery.
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Working to prevent suicide in all parts of the community and among people of all ages is the focus of this year's World Suicide Prevention Day.
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AUCKLAND — The new hub is about strengthening border protection to keep pests and diseases out.
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Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton today welcomed the Kiwibank announcement of an after-tax profit of $25.5 million for the 12 months ended 30 June 2007.
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OTAGO — Local fishers have worked in partnership with the Ministry of Fisheries for the benefit of everyone.
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