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Catfish Cull

3rd annual Lake Taupo Catfish Cull Catfish
By Pat Swanson

New Zealand's Lake Taupo Catfish Cull is now a firm fixture on the annual diving calendar. Coming a week after the National Spearfishing Championships, on the last weekend of January, it is a great opportunity for serious, and many not so serious spearos to get together for the novelty of spearing fish in fresh water, and along the way having a positive impact on the lake's ecosystem ...
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Titanic

by Nicholas McIndoe - images Emory Kristof, National Geographic Titanic

Interest in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 has endured for 100 years. The accident remains one of peacetime's worst maritime disasters, capturing the imagination of generations like no other. The tragic events of that fateful April night continue to affect our lives today and will generate interest for another 100 years.

The Olympic-class Royal Mail Ship Titanic was owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, using some of the most advanced technologies of the time and featuring extensive safety measures ... More

Orca Rescue

Orca unhooked from a craypot buoy in the waters off the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand orca
By Dave Moran

On Saturday 4 February Rhys Cochrane (19) had an experience that he will treasure for the rest of his life!
Editor Dave Moran gave Rhys a call to hear first hand about it.
Dave Moran (DM): Rhys, when did you hear that an orca was in trouble?
Rhys Cochrane (RC): Saturday afternoon around 4.30 pm. My father and I were at home when DoC (Department of Conservation) called Wendy at our Cathedral Cove Dive store ...
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Shark Finning in New Zealand

Shark finning is alive and well in New Zealand

Recently a Conservation Department officer in Nelson came across around 30 sand sharks that had their fins removed, some were still alive!

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Money the great persuader!
Pure New Zealand - Yeah Right!
by Dave Moran

Some of you may have viewed the following features recently on New Zealand television.
- Shark Finning, TV3, 60 minutes on 11 March.
- Salmon farming in the Marlborough Sounds, TV3 Campbell Live 13 March. (Check them out online)

I have commented on shark finning and the magazine has run articles about it over many years. New Zealand is so far behind other countries regarding shark finning/products it's becoming an international joke. Twenty years ago I would suggest you would not find a shark fin product on the open market in NZ or Australia. Now there are factories producing shark fin products for the local and international markets. There is no quota on how many kilograms of fins can be produced.

This year, finally, government says it will look at finning when they release their: National Plan of Action for Sharks. It is interesting to note that the main reason the government is doing a national plan is because it is under an obligation to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to produce one! From where I sit the NZ Government is supporting 100% the production and importing of shark fin products thus condoning the world wide slaughter of millions of sharks just for their fins. Money, money, money! More

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