Monday, 21 May 2001 Media Statement

New funding for participation in fisheries management

The Budget will provide $50,000 to help environmental groups participate in the Environmental Management Strategy being developed by the Ministry of Fisheries.

The Strategy will help ensure that the environmental principles of the Fisheries Act – requiring sustainability, maintenance of biodiversity and protection of significant habitat – are given proper effect in fisheries management.

Announcing the funding today, Minister of Fisheries Pete Hodgson said the initiative arose from a proposal by the Green Party.

It would be funded from within the Ministry of Fisheries' existing baseline.

Ministry of Fisheries staff will contact environmental groups shortly to discuss the process to obtain funding.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>