Story: Marine conservation

More links and websites

• 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 about our oceans, on the Greenpeace New Zealand website.

• Marine and coastal: Conservation

  This page has Department of Conservation information on marine reserves and marine conservation.

• Marine recreational fishing

  The Ministry of Fisheries regulations for recreational fishing in New Zealand.

• 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.

• Student & teacher resources (Starfish)

  This Ministry of Fisheries website has resources for teachers and students, including fact sheets on fish catch.

• 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).

More suggestions and sources

• 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.