Recreational fishers could resume catching blue cod from the Marlborough Sounds from next year. The Ministry of Fisheries banned recreational catches of blue cod in October 2008 to address a local ...

NIWA marine scientists will use baited-underwater-video (BUV) to assess blue cod stocks in Fiordland this week. It’s the first time this unique way of monitoring fish stocks has been used in the ...

The Blue Cod Management Group is encouraging the local community to attend drop-in sessions in Picton and Nelson next week to learn more about the review of the Marlborough Sounds blue cod fishing ...

MPI says it wants a national blue cod strategy to review all aspects of the blue cod fishery across the whole of New Zealand. Photo / ODT File Recreational bag limits set too high is the outstanding ...

FISH FRIENDS: It's the job of Ministry of Fisheries officers Chris Beal and Liz Murray (and dog Merlot) to check that fishermen and women take the appropriate bag limit of blue cod in the Marlborough ...

Now becoming rarer upon our shores and seen to be moving for the much deeper, colder waters, cod are a fish that is becoming more and more difficult to come by today for the winter shore angler. Once ...