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Minister announces Emergency Set Net Closure
Monday 15 September, 2025
Minister’s Emergency Closure the first of many steps to protect hoiho at sea
The Government has announced a temporary emergency fishery closure to protect mainland New ...
Local industry’s voluntary closure for hoiho
Wednesday 10 September, 2025
Local industry’s voluntary closure for hoiho
In support of our calls for better protection of hoiho during the breeding season, Dunedin set net fishers announced a volu...
Set nets still being deployed as breeding season starts
Friday 29 August, 2025
Set nets still being deployed as vulnerable breeding season starts for hoiho
The crucial 28-week breeding season has begun for hoiho, yellow-eyed penguins. Meanwhile, a...
Taking legal action for hoiho
Sunday 10 August, 2025
Taking legal action for hoiho
Environmental Law Initiative holding Ministers to account
In December 2024, a high court ruling found systematic failings over tw...
Urging Ministers to take immediate action at sea
Monday 04 August, 2025
Urging Ministers to take immediate action at sea
Te Tautiaki Hoiho Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust agrees with the letter ELI has sent to Ministers calling for the by-catch l...
What to do with the Fisheries Act
Friday 01 August, 2025
What to do with the Fisheries Act
Cameras on boats, catch limits and our response
In February 2025, the government proposed several troubling changes to the Fi...
Updates from the field
Friday 01 August, 2025
Hoiho chick monitoring
The intensive monitoring season started with a nest search in October, which was delayed after heavy rain resulted in significant flooding and slips across the re...
The State of our Coast
Friday 01 August, 2025
The State of our Coast
Environmental Defence Society on Otago Oceans Reform
The Environmental Defence Society has published a report by lawyer and policy director Raewyn Peart ...
The changing diet of hoiho and the impact
Friday 01 August, 2025
The changing diet of hoiho and the impact
Chair of the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust, Eiren Sweetman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Uni...
Taking the hoiho cause to the world
Friday 01 August, 2025
Report from the 2025 UN Ocean Conference
I was proud to bring the plight of the hoiho to the global conversation at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France in June. Co-organised by the ...