waterfront business
New general manager for
Seafood Innovations
company of Seafood New Zealand and Plant and Food
Research, has a new general manager.
The chair of Seafood Innovations, Dave Sharp, says Mike
Mandeno comes to the organisation "with a wealth of relevant
seafood industry experience and is well versed in the many and
varied aspects of the scientific and technological challenges
facing the New Zealand seafood industry."
Mike Mandeno was previously acting general manager of
the Aquaculture and Biotechnologies Division at the Cawthron
Institute in Nelson. Formerly he worked as research manager at
Aquaculture New Zealand, where he developed New Zealand's
first aquaculture sector research strategy. Mike has previous
industry experience with seafood companies Sanford Limited
and New Zealand King Salmon, and has a Masters degree in
Marine Science from Otago University.
"Mike will play the lead role in achieving our goal of investing
$28m of industry and government money in new seafood industry
research projects over the next seven years," Dave Sharp says.
Mike Mandeno says he is looking forward to the role and
sees it as a tremendous opportunity to add value to one of New
Zealand's growing export sectors.
Wider set net ban needed to
save yellow-eyed penguins
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for an immediate extension
to a ban on commercial
and recreational set netting
around Otago Peninsula,
following the release of a
major new international
review that has found that
set nets kill more than
400,000 seabirds around the world every year.
The results of the review, undertaken by conservation group
BirdLife International, have been published in the Journal of
Biological Conservation.
There are less than six hundred pairs of yellow-eyed
penguins left on mainland New Zealand. Around 150 of those
live on the Otago Peninsula. Because the penguins feed in the
coastal waters in which set nets are used, Forest & Bird Seabird
Advocate Karen Baird says that yellow-eyed penguins are a
prime example of a species whose chances of survival would
improve with the help of better controls on set nets.
"The current four kilometre wide set net ban around the
Otago Peninsula's coast should be extended to around the 150
metre depth contour, the extent to which yellow-eyed penguins
are known to forage. This effectively means that the protection
zone needs to extend to around 20 kilometres offshore," Karen
Baird says.
Because the birds are also a cornerstone of Otago's $100
million a year eco-tourism industry, Karen Baird says there are
also very good economic reasons to ban set nets.
The risk of losing the yellow-eyed penguin colonies on the
peninsula is particularly high, with 56 birds having been found
dead around the Otago Peninsula this breeding season – the
victims of an unknown toxin.
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