An orange roughy fishery south of New Zealand’s Stewart Island has been given the green light to reopen after 19 years.
In 1998, the seafood industry agreed to cease fishing in the ORH3B Puysegur area to rest the fishery to allow stocks to rebuild. Over the subsequent 19 years, the industry contracted a number of research surveys from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Resear…
