The Government’s aquaculture strategy to 2025 sets objectives and actions to guide sustainable growth of New Zealand’s aquaculture industry.
About the aquaculture strategy
The strategy, released in September 2019, sets outcomes for a sustainable, productive, resilient, and inclusive aquaculture industry. It identifies government agencies’ objectives and actions towards New Zealand becoming world-leading in sustainable and innovative aquaculture.
The strategy’s objectives are to:
- promote and assist implementation of strategic integrated coastal and catchment planning to ensure a healthy aquatic environment
- partner with industry on a transition plan to reduce emissions and waste across the value chain
- maximise the value of all farmed space through a strong research, innovation, and commercialisation system
- develop world-leading frameworks for open ocean and land-based farming
- support infrastructure needs to enable growth
- strengthen biosecurity management
- support the industry to adapt to climate change
- build Māori and community knowledge about aquaculture and their input into growth opportunities
- deliver the Crown’s aquaculture settlement obligations in a manner that facilitates early investment in new opportunities
- recognise Māori values and aspirations across the work programme.
Fisheries New Zealand will partner with other agencies to achieve these objectives. We will publish annual implementation plans setting key actions for the year and identifying which agency is responsible for each action.
Find out more here: The Government’s Aquaculture Strategy to 2025
