Further Sources

Best fish guide

The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society’s website offers a fish-buying guide that takes the marine environment into account.
Greenpeace Aotearoa/New Zealand

Information on deep-sea life and bottom trawling, on the Greenpeace New Zealand website.
The hazards of persistent marine pollution: drift plastics and conservation islands

This paper by Murray Gregory, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1991) is a survey of plastic littler and debris on New Zealand beaches (PDF, 2.9 MB).
Marine and coastal: Conservation

This page has Department of Conservation information on marine reserves.
Marine recreational fishing

The Ministry of Fisheries regulations for recreational fishing in New Zealand.
Seafood Industry Council – hot topics

The New Zealand fishing industry’s website features information on reducing marine mammal deaths.
ST*Rfish – student teacher resources

This Ministry of Fisheries website has resources for teachers and students, including fact sheets on fish catch.
State of New Zealand’s environment, 1997

On the Ministry for the Environment website, this 1997 report – The state of New Zealand’s environment – includes chapters on environmental management and the state of New Zealand waters.

Andrew, Neil, and Malcolm Francis, eds. The living reef: the ecology of New Zealand’s rocky reefs. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2003.
Johnson, David. Hooked: the story of the New Zealand fishing industry. Christchurch: Hazard, 2004.
King, Carolyn, ed. The handbook of New Zealand mammals. 2nd ed. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2005.