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WATERFRONT BUSINESS In brief��� Seafood exports increase New Zealand seafood export returns for the first six months of 2012 increased very slightly over the same period in 2011, despite the high dollar and access complications with southern Europe. Seafood New Zealand���s Economic Review shows food commodity export groups have suffered with the high dollar during the first half of 2012, with dairy, meat and horticulture exports all reporting declines, as have timber and oil. Seafood export returns have, in contrast, increased by one percent to $706 million, up from $699 million in 2011. Seafood New Zealand attributes the modest increase to a range of markets and species, rather than any spectacular performer. Exports of hoki to China for further processing, and largely re-export to the United States, is probably the most significant of the increasing export trend. The export value for the eight months to the end of August shows an increase in returns, from $20 million to $31 million. This was not just a result of increase in the hoki quota catch in New Zealand, but also an increase of 25 per cent in the average value achieved in China (after freight and insurance were deducted) going from 226 cents, to 282 cents per kilo. Exports to countries in southern Europe, Spain, Greece and Italy, have fallen significantly in the first half of 2012 compared with 2011. The decrease appears to have hurt sales of most species, but exports of squid, ling and hake may also have been depressed by difficulties with export certificates issued by New Zealand for fish caught by foreign charter vessels. Moving fish around is the answer Sanford���s claim to the Ross Sea toothfish fishery was recognised by the Commission for the Conservation of Marine Living Resources meeting in Hobart in October but New Zealand negotiator Carolyn Schwalger said the compromise on the Ross Sea marine park would not have dented Sanford���s toothfish harvest worth NZ$14 million a year. ���None of the marine park area proposals are about reducing fishing; they are all about moving fishing into areas that will have less of a negative impact on the wider ecosystem.��� 44 Professional Skipper January/February 2013 Rena owners fined MARITIME NEW ZEALAND welcomed the guilty plea by Daina Shipping Co., the registered owners of the Rena, to a charge under the Resource Management Act relating to the discharge of harmful substances following the grounding of the ship in October 2011. Daina Shipping was fined $300,000 in the Tauranga District Court in October on the charge. Daina Shipping Co. was charged under sections 338(1B) and 15B of the Resource Management Act 1994, for being the owne r of a ship from which harmful substances and/or contaminants were discharged into the coastal marine area. The Rena was carrying a variety of materials defined under the Resource Management (Marine Pollution) Regulations 1998 as harmful substances or contaminants including: heavy fuel oil and other oils, 32 containers of dangerous goods, including 40 tonnes of hydrogen peroxide, 23 tonnes of alkylsulphonic acid, 500 tonnes of ferrosilicon, 5.4 tonnes of trichloroisocyanuric acid, and 24 tonnes of potassium nitrate. Other substances carried on board defined as harmful include bulk wine and operational waste. Items aboard classified as contaminants included animal pelts, dairy products, fabrics, cement and machinery parts. A total of 121 containers of perishable foodstuffs were also on the Rena. Work continues on the removal of the Rena wreckage and debris. CANNABIS FREE FOR ALL THE WELLINGTON POLICE maritime unit were patrolling Marlborough Sounds on their 18.5 metre catamaran Lady Elizabeth IV, in October when a runabout fled, leaving behind a trail of cannabis heads. They were about to stop a small runabout near Blumine Island, in the outer Queen Charlotte Sound for a routine check to see if there were any fish on board, when the runabout suddenly sped away towards Picton. As the boat raced away the occupants began throwing items overboard including a yellow plastic bag. Police said cannabis was, ������ floating all over the top of the water ��� police were able to retrieve most of it.��� After chasing the boat for 7.6 kilometres, the police launch caught up with it 20 minutes later, about 8am. Two men were on board the boat were charged, both aged in their early 50s. The incident was part of a five-day a multi-agency patrol including, Customs, MPI fisheries, DOC and maritime police. In that time the six-crew, three-agency unit stopped 67 boats. Fishers with undersized scallops was a recurring issue over the five days. One infringement notice was issued and four warnings were given. The multi-agency group has been operating since 2008 and patrol regularly throughout the year. During patrols they check on outlying baches, monitor the marine reserve, and provide a police presence on the water as a preventative patrol. Idiocy only funny because it wasn���t tragic AFTER RUNNING AGROUND at Waikawa, Colin Webb was bringing the 10m boat Impact from Bluff to Port Chalmers on the night of November 7, when he hit the bar at Taieri Mouth, about 200m offshore, about 8.15pm. ���He���s an idiot and it���s just such as waste of time, people and resources,��� said Taieri Mouth SAR marine adviser Keith Simon. ���He set off a flare horizontally, which almost hit a house. The next one went off in the boat. He had already been warned not to leave Bluff, but he carried on anyway. Apparently, the fishermen down there were running a sweep on whether he���d make it up here.��� Webb was not injured and was evacuated from the boat at 11pm by St Kilda and Brighton Surf Life Saving Clubs members in inflatable boats. ���I���m so embarrassed,��� Webb told rescuers as he came ashore, ���A fire broke out in the engine and I lost concentration and hit the sand bar.��� The rescue was attended by: two Brighton fire brigade units, two ambulances, three police units and St Kilda and Brighton Surf Life Saving inflatables. The boat was expected to float free the next day.