Snapper are being trialled in a new open ocean aquaculture farming system in Tasman Bay. It is the first time a new finfish species has been trialled off the New Zealand coastline; with Chinook salmon ...

Lisa Futschek is the recently appointed chief executive of Seafood New Zealand ... nobody wants to be catching sick fish. The rise of the milky-fleshed snapper is a real concern to the seafood ...

New Zealand Food Safety deputy ... hunted that looks unhealthy – including fish showing the “zombie” symptoms, he said. The diseased "zombie" snapper have sunken, milky eyes, bones sticking ...

And as the stock grew, the pair contend an increase in catch limits would have seen New Zealand’s favourite fish fillet drop in price. Snapper is currently about $40 a kilogram, and Mawson said ...

Snapper are being trialled in a new open ocean aquaculture ... species has been trialled off the New Zealand coastline; with Chinook salmon the only fish currently raised commercially in sea ...