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You are here Home Healthy response to call for duck pond volunteers
Operation Duck Pond is signing up more volunteers, following a “very good response” from game bird hunters to a fresh appeal for pond observers.
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Please send us your duck details
Fish & Game officers have made an urgent appeal for game bird hunters to send in any duck band information they have – after a “disappointingly slow” response to the...
Fish & Game mounts nationwide bird-counting mission
Up to 50 Fish & Game officers and volunteers around New Zealand head out on a major game bird-counting mission today – focused on the shoveler duck, or ‘spoony.’
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Operation Duck Pond needs your help!
Operation Duck Pond is still looking for keen waterfowl hunters (or family members, friends) who are able to monitor their ponds over the coming breeding season.
Save recreational access plea by Federated Farmers and Fish & Game
Federated Farmers and Fish & Game are asking Parliament to ensure proposed health and safety legislation does not lead to restrictions on recreational access to farms and forests.
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Fish & Game wins again over Ruataniwha Dam
Fish & Game is welcoming as a “significant victory” the Ruataniwha Board of Inquiry’s final decision on the conditions which would govern the controversial Hawkes Bay dam and irrigation project.
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Fish & Game Urges Government To Act on Water Quality
Fish & Game is urging the government to act immediately on the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s warnings about the continuing deterioration of the country’s waterways and sharp rise in...
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Fish & Game Wants Answers Over Taupo Trout Proposal
Fish & Game is meeting the Office of Treaty Settlements to get answers over a controversial proposal to allow Ngati Tuwharetoa to raise trout in Taupo’s existing trout hatchery facilities.
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Online mapping system helps Waikato hunters hit the mark
Planning a hunting trip in the Waikato just got easier following the introduction of new hunter access point information on the free, nationwide Walking Access Mapping System.
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East coast rivers ‘fire up’ as trout launch into spawning runs
Anglers on the east coast of the North Island are reporting some great fishing as trout settle into their spawning runs.
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Let's weed out the 'bird dumpers' giving us a bad name
Hunters who dumped birds in separate incidents in both the North and South Islands have cast a shadow over the otherwise happy start to the game bird season.
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Day licence 'great way to have a crack at game bird hunting'
If you’ve ever wondered about taking a mate or a family member out game bird hunting…here’s a reminder on how best to go about it.
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Fish & Game applauds ‘law abiding’ game bird hunters
Fish & Game rangers say its pleasing to see that a “responsible majority” of hunters in the North Island stuck to the rules as the new game bird season opened...
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Prospects 'looking up' for North Island game bird hunters
Thousands of game bird hunters will turn out this Saturday (May 2, 2015) – with hopes for a better season in the North Island – with duck numbers generally reported...
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Landmark poaching sentence sends 'strong message'
One of two Bay of Plenty men convicted of poaching spawning trout last winter from a stream near Rotorua has received a precedent-setting jail term.
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Hunting & Fishing New Zealand’s ‘stay dry’ offer to duck hunters
Game bird hunters are again being given the chance to win a camo' hunting jacket this season if they send their duck band details in.
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Game bird hunters – ‘don’t forget ‘pegging day’ to stake out your spot
Fish & Game is urging gamebird hunters to get out now and claim the maimai or duck shooting stand they used last year.
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2015 Fish & Game Council Elections
Fish & Game elections will be held October 2015.
Fish & Game clamp down on Rotorua stream mouth poachers gets results
Fish & Game officers are confident they’ve made an impact on offending that has been on the rise at some Lake Rotorua stream mouths over recent weeks.
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RMA reform an attack on Kiwi values
Analysis of the Government’s RMA reforms by Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC points to an alarming attack on the nation’s recreational and environmental values.
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