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Niwa: Sharks more at risk than swimmers

Some sharks lurking around NZ waters this summer are in more danger than the swimmers they scare, Niwa says.

The call of the waves

James Russell rounds up a few water sports you may want to get your teeth into this summer...

Armed guards on whaling vessels

Search for fisherman called off

Hope fades for boat's missing crew

The search for 17 people missing after a Korean fishing vessel sank in the Southern Ocean early today has been scaled down as it becomes increasingly unlikely further survivors will be found.

5 dead, 17 missing after boat sinks

Five people are dead and 17 missing after a Korean fishing vessel sank in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean, 2700km south east of Bluff, early this morning.

Joint call for caution in whaling wars

New Zealand is one of four nations calling for whaling protest ships in the Southern Ocean to safeguard life at sea.

Bloomin' marvellous

NASA has just released this amazing image of phytoplankton bloom around the Chatham Islands.

Chagos marine reserve formed

<i>Geoff Thomas:</i> Fish come when moons line up

Deep sea fish take ugliness to new level, says Niwa

<i>Peter Bodeker:</i> Wilder bottom-trawling claims simply not true

<i>Geoff Thomas:</i> Plankton earth's building blocks

Bottle floats to Oz

Kiwis in hunt for 'deadliest catch'

NZ fishermen are pressing ahead in the hunt for 'the world's deadliest catch' - giant crabs below some of the world's roughest ocean.

Fish stocks on rise - but there's a catch

New Zealand is braving an international backlash by going after fish species environmentalists say are unsustainably caught. Geoff Cumming reports.