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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 2020, it only delayed it by three weeks! Fish & Game New Zealand Chairman Ray Grubb says, "The abil...

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 conditions. Fish and Game chairman Ray Grubb says the tradition dates back "well over 100 years" and is...

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 suggestions the organisation is no longer fit for purpose. The reviewers have found Fish & Game, which mana...

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 Conservation, Eugenie Sage, following a series of scandals and concerns the organisation was no longer fit...

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