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Daphne Kay skipper Ricky Ryan will be among the fishing fleet heading out to Foveaux Strait for the official start of the oyster season on March 1.
The famous Bluff oysters will be on their way to market very soon with the fishing fleet heading out early on Monday for the official start of the season. There s about 11 vessels in the fishing fleet connected to the oyster industry in the south, and the bulk of them will leave about 3am on Monday for the fishery in Foveaux Strait to harvest the delicacy. Early indications are the fishery is in good health. The weather forecast for the first three days of the season is also looking good for fishermen as they head out.
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The company is the first farm in the country to produce its own shellfish feed specifically for a New-Zealand species, which gives staff more control over the quality and quantity of pāua it produces. Managing director Blair Wolfgram said the company was trialling different recipes of New Zealand ingredients to monitor their effects on growth rates, and expected to start seeing results early this year. Evolving science and technologies will help the industry grow faster and make sure it can do so sustainably. The company has a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Auckland University of Technology, which means the old Ocean Beach site building will be used as an aquaculture education, research and development centre.
Environment Southland has directed a boat to leave Fiordland and its hull to be cleaned. (file photo)
A boat that has been ordered to leave Fiordland is only the second to be directed to leave, after it was allegedly found with an invasive aquatic species on its hull. But Environment Southland is remaining tight-lipped on where the boat was found and when, what type of boat it was, where it was going, and whether it had left Fiordland. A report from regional council chief executive Rob Phillips, which was tabled at a full council meeting on December 16, says a non-compliance action has been started for a boat that is believed to have travelled from Bluff Harbour to Fiordland while in breach of the Fiordland Marine Pathways Plan clean hull rules and with suspected Undaria on the hull.