The latest comprehensive scientific assessment of the status of New Zealand's fisheries has been released.

Changes have been made to regulatory controls of some of New Zealand's most valuable fisheries, including a decision to extend consultation on the Otago/Southland Paua fisheries review.

The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) has praised the Indonesian fishing industry's efforts to increase the market potential for its pole and line and hand line caught tuna.

An historic deal to reform the broken Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has been agreed by EU Member States and is expected to become law later this year.

The federal government insists it is striving to avoid the Great Barrier Reef being listed "in danger" ahead of a crunch UN meeting, after rejecting a Senate recommendation to block new port developments near the World Heritage ecosystem.

The sustainability guru has seen environmental sustainability flourish over his career, but warns firms must move faster to address today's challenges.

A long-awaited threat management plan for Maui's dolphins is to be announced next month - but one MP has questioned whether the Government is going far enough to protect the critically endangered species.

The closest most of us will get to Antarctica is nature documentaries like Frozen Planet - but the white continent's relevance to us and our future is far greater than we think. Many of the clues to climate change lie buried within Antarctica's ice, waiting to be discovered by scientists racing to learn what global warming at the poles might mean for nations at the equator.

In a new study of spiny lobsters scientists from the University of Miami and Old Dominion studied the larval dispersal of this species in the Caribbean. The goal of the study was to describe the sources, sinks, and routes connecting the Caribbean spiny lobster metapopulation. The results led the team to propose marine resource management strategies that incorporate larval connectivity and "larval lobster credits" to sustain and rebuild exploited marine populations.

A new study shows that combining improved oyster restoration methods with limits on fishing in the upper Chesapeake could bring the oyster population back to the Bay in a much shorter period of time. The study led by Michael Wilberg of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory assessed a range of management and restoration options to see which ones would have the most likelihood of success.