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Thursday, 29 April 2021, 12:55 pm Around 45,000 kiwis will be counting down the hours on Friday to the start of the 2021 duck hunting season on Saturday. For well over 100 years kiwis have gathered on the first Saturday in May to take part in the annual celebration of our wonderful New Zealand game birds. This tradition provides a chance for whanau and friends to get together and harvest delicious free-range birds for the plate. Even the insidious Covid-19 virus could not beat this tradition in...

Thousands of Kiwis gearing up for start of duck shooting season Newshub 29/04/2021 © Provided by Newshub As many as 45,000 New Zealanders will be taking part in the duck shooting season this year. The season kicks off on Saturday, with hunters up and down the country gearing up for opening weekend. Initial monitoring has already shown promising signs duck numbers are high in many parts of the country - such as Taranaki and Otago - thanks to a great breeding season and favourable weather con...

Fish & Game NZ says it will implement recommendations after review © Getty Chair of Fish and Game Ray Grubb says the body will continue to act as an advocate for fresh water protection. Fish and Game will modernise and implement the 35 recommendations of a scathing independent review prompted by scandal and criticism of governance, according to its chairperson. The investigation was ordered last year by former Minister for Conservation Eugenie Sage, following a series of scandals and suggest...

Fish & Game New Zealand lacks good governance at all levels - independent review 27 Apr, 2021 10:15 PM 2 minutes to read A scathing independent review into Fish & Game New Zealand released by the government today has made a number of recommendations for change at the organisation. Fish & Game manages sport fishing and game bird hunting across New Zealand and has had an unaltered structure since it was set up in 1990. The independent review was ordered last year by the former Minister for Conser...

The group was almost exclusively run by Pākehā men, fuelling a perception it was an “old boys’ club” hostile to outsiders.

Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 4:00 pm A review into Fish & Game has outlined a tranche of recommendations to modernize governance protocols and decision making. New Zealand Fish and Game Council chairperson Ray Grubb says the review provides an overdue and welcome health check of the organisation. While it proposes some significant changes, he is encouraged it endorses Fish & Game’s core strengths. "It is encouraging that it is a ringing endorsement of our strong environmental advocacy on behalf o...

Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 3:57 pm A report outlining recommendations to strengthen the governance and good management practices within NZ Fish & Game has been released by Acting Minister of Conservation Dr Ayesha Verrall. Fish & Game manages sport fishing and game bird hunting across NZ and has had an unaltered structure since it was set up in 1990. The report is the result of a ministerial review initiated last year by former Minister Eugenie Sage in order to ensure Fish & Game’s governance a...

Date:  27 April 2021 Source:  Office of the Acting Minister of Conservation Fish & Game manages sport fishing and game bird hunting across New Zealand and has had an unaltered structure since it was set up in 1990. The report is the result of a ministerial review initiated last year by former Minister Sage in order to ensure Fish & Game’s governance and structure were “fit for purpose” today. The independent review, undertaken by Belinda Clark and John Mills, found Fish & Game plays a...

Press Release – New Zealand Government A report outlining recommendations to strengthen the governance and good management practices within NZ Fish & Game has been released by Acting Minister of Conservation Dr Ayesha Verrall. Fish & Game manages sport fishing and game bird hunting … A report outlining recommendations to strengthen the governance and good management practices within NZ Fish & Game has been released by Acting Minister of Conservation Dr Ayesha Verrall. Fish & Game manages s...

Friday, 26 February 2021, 7:08 am Recent images of thousands of fish dying in an Otago stream and estuary are symptomatic of regional councils across the country failing to manage the environmental impacts of land-use on our waterways, Fish & Game New Zealand say. "This environmental tragedy wasn’t an isolated incident, and it isn’t limited to my home patch, Otago," New Zealand Fish and Game Council Chair Ray Grubb says. "Across the country, many are of these important ecosystems are close...