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Sounds, Salmon & Songbirds Cruise offers fantastic family day on the water

27 Sep 2017
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We have once again teamed up with Marlborough Tour Company and Kaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary to offer the popular Sounds, Salmon & Songbirds Cruise. Now in its fifth year, the collaboration is a fantastic opportunity for Mulbaurians and visitors alike to experience the beautiful...

Life of a Salmon Farmer

09 Jun 2017
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On #WorldOceansDay hear from GSI member @NZ_KingSalmon “As a marine farmer, it’s part of my job to look after the environment” pic.twitter.com/Z31SUmbXvO — GSI (@GSI_salmon) June 8, 2017

Innovative Marlborough Product Breaks into International Aquaculture Market

21 Mar 2017
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Media release 7 March 2017 An innovative marine farm net cleaning system developed by Andy Fairhall from Marlborough business Boss Net Cleaning Services has been installed by the large Canadian-based salmon farming company Cooke Aquaculture – which also farms salmon in...

Bagels for charity fly out the door at Picton Maritime Festival 2017

01 Feb 2017
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Media release 2 February 2017 – The Picton Maritime Festival on 21 January was a great day all round according to the NZKS team and festivalgoers at this year’s event on the Picton foreshore. Festival attendees were able to sample free Regal salmon  tastings along wit...

Update on 2016 NMIT scholarship recipients

01 Feb 2017
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Media release 9 January 2017 – Two of last year’s New Zealand King Salmon scholarships for students studying Aquaculture at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) were Jesse Barker and Russell Adams. We recently caught up with these students to learn of their...

MYLENE MERA BREAKING NEW GROUND

09 Dec 2016
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Media Release 9 December 2016 New Zealand King Salmon were proud to see our very own Mylene Mera, who is our Nelson-based Product Development Technologist, featured in the LINDZ Magazine this month. Mylene, who was originally born in the Philippines, moved to Nelson after an...
Hills & sea Marlborough Sounds

New Zealand King Salmon Market Update: 14 November 2016

14 Nov 2016
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Update on the impact of the North Canterbury centred earthquakes All team members are safe and accounted for. The Queen Charlotte Sound and Tory Channel farms were evacuated due to tsunami warnings. The warnings have been scaled back and team members are now back in hatcheries...

$2 million barge contract won by local firm Cuddons

10 Nov 2016
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Media release 1 February 2017 – Marlborough’s Cuddon Limited has just won a contract worth in excess of $2 million to build a large scale feed barge for New Zealand King Salmon. Andy Rowe, CEO of Cuddon Limited describes winning the contract as “a significant milestone in...

Educational Salmon Farming Resource lands into all Marlborough schools

22 Oct 2016
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Media Release 21 October 2016 Education and youth is one of our key focuses in our Marlborough community engagement programme. As part of this we have developed an education resource written by Marlborough science teacher Melynda Bentley, in consultation with a number of other...

NZKS recognises the 2016 Marlborough Trustpower Community Award Winners

05 Oct 2016
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Media Release 5 October 2016 The 2016 Trustpower Marlborough District Community Awards took place last night at Marlborough’s ASB Theatre, hosting and recognising some of our very passionate and successful partners, within the Marlborough community. Among the well-deserving group...

Sounds, Salmon & Songbirds Cruise collaboration offers fantastic family day out

03 Oct 2016
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Media Release 3 October 2016 New Zealand King Salmon, Kaipupu Point Sounds Wildlife Sanctuary and Marlborough Tour Company have joined forces again, collaborating to offer a fantastic family day out in the Marlborough Sounds with their popular “Sounds, Salmon & Songbirds...

Innovation key to boosting top of the South economy

29 Sep 2016
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Media release 29 September 2016 –  “Innovation is the key pathway to business success for the Top of the South, for people to prosper and thrive and to maintain sustainability,” says New Zealand King Salmon CEO, Grant Rosewarne. He says it’s no longer enough to have an...

Head of WWF’s Sustainable Food Speaks at Marlborough District Council

14 Sep 2016
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News release 14 September 2017 Dr. Jason Clay, Food & Markets Senior Vice President, who head’s the World Wildlife Fund of sustainable food, spoke on September 12 at the Marlborough District Council around the important role aquaculture has in feeding the world sustainably....

AN INVESTMENT IN NEW ZEALAND’S GROWING AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY

05 Sep 2016
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Media release 29 August 2016 New Zealand King Salmon confirms intention to undertake an IPO There may soon be an opportunity for Kiwi investors to own a stake in New Zealand’s estimated $180 million salmon industry. The world’s largest aquaculture producer of King salmon, New...

New Marlborough Salmon Farms Come on Stream

12 Jul 2016
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Media release    farms – 1 12 July 2016 New Marlborough salmon farms come on stream The first new space allocated for salmon in Marlborough in 9 years has finally come on stream with the official opening of two new salmon farms operated by New Zealand King Salmon. The Pelorus...

NMIT sponsorship recipients awarded

03 Jun 2016
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Media release 3 June 2016 – Three Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) recipients were named for NZ King Salmon’s annual aquaculture sponsorship award for 2016. Announced were students Reuben Jane, Jesse Barker and Russell Adams. These three recipients were...
New Kopāua farm, Pelorus Sound

New farms, new name

17 May 2016
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Two of our new salmon farms in Pelorus Sound are being opened in July; Waitata Bay farm and the newly named ‘Kopāua’ farm in Richmond Bay. These two farms add to the operating farms we have in Queen Charlotte Sound – Ruakaka, Otanerau, Te Pangu, Ngamahau and Clay Point. The name...
Karen Mant with mystery bottle

Mystery message in a bottle

26 Feb 2016
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One of the joys of cleaning up our Marlborough Sounds beaches is that you never know what you’ll find – such as the old classic message in a bottle. This is what Karen Mant, New Zealand King Salmon Environmental Coordinator, stumbled across during one of our recent regular...

Sleek new Design ​for our high-tech Bulk Tankers

29 Jan 2016
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To keep up with demand and to ensure the highest quality salmon, we harvest five days a week all year round. The salmon are then transported in chilled conditions from our farms in the Marlborough Sounds over the hill to our Nelson processing plant, before being dispatched to...

A preference for local

18 Jan 2016
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Since we began salmon farming in the Marlborough Sounds in 1984, New Zealand King Salmon has made a sustained effort to use local Marlborough – or New Zealand-based – businesses wherever possible, along with employing local Marlborough staff. We are a part of...

New Zealand King Salmon Most Improved Workplace

10 Nov 2015
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  New Zealand King Salmon has been ranked New Zealand’s Most Improved Medium – Large Workplace in the IBM Kenexa Best Workplaces survey. The awards are based on employee ratings in a confidential online survey. This year over 30,000 employees from 193 New Zealand...
Children planting trees

Supporting recycling in Marlborough schools

06 Nov 2015
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6 November 2015. New Zealand King Salmon is helping Marlborough school children reduce waste and learn about looking after their environment by supporting school-based recycling programme, Paper4trees. Paper4trees is the largest of its type in New Zealand, with over 4000 schools...

The First New Farm is Installed

07 Oct 2015
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New Zealand King Salmon has installed the first new salmon farm in the Marlborough Sounds for nearly 10 years. The last salmon farm to be installed was at Clay Point in the Tory Channel in December 2007.   The new farm at Ngamahau is also located in the Tory Channel and will...
Salmon Farmer at work

New A+ sustainable aquaculture scheme gives full public access

23 Sep 2015
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TVNZ recently interviewed Mark Preece, our Fish Health Manager, about the launch of the new A+ New Zealand Sustainable Aquaculture environmental monitoring and certification scheme. “It’s absolutely vitally important that we maintain the health and quality of the water that we...

‘From Egg to Dinner – Breeding Better Salmon’

10 Aug 2015
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The audio below was part of a recent Radio NZ broadcast by Science and Environment Producer Veronika Meduna as part of the ‘Our Changing World’ series. Veronika visited our Takaka hatchery in Golden Bay during the Ōra King salmon spawning season. Listen in as interviews the...
KAM Transport tanker

Tanker innovation enables transport company to set up in Picton

03 Jul 2015
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KAM Transport is working with New Zealand King Salmon to provide innovative new tankers for optimal transportation of harvested salmon direct from Marlborough salmon farms to its Nelson processing plant. With its head office in Wellington, KAM Transport was looking to expand into...
Georgia Samuels - NMIT scholarship recipient

New Zealand King Salmon NMIT aquaculture scholarships awarded to three recipients

15 Jun 2015
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Media release – 12 June 2015. Mikaera Miru, Georgia Samuels and Tushar Koppikar are the three recipients of this year’s New Zealand King Salmon scholarships for students studying Aquaculture at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT). In his first year, Mikaera...

Global Salmon Producers Launch Sustainability Report

10 Jun 2015
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  Media Release – 6 June 2015. To mark World Environment Day, Marlborough salmon producer NZ King Salmon is tonight releasing in New Zealand the inaugural Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) Sustainability Report on the industry. The landmark report showcases key...
King Shag on rocks

Rare King Shag: New survey method most accurate count to date

13 May 2015
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Media release – 13 May 2015. The New Zealand King Shag, found only in the Marlborough Sounds, is one of the rarest seabirds in the world. A recent aerial survey was conducted, the first of its kind for this species, which shows a total King Shag population of 839 birds....
Bradley Hornby & Matt Lambert

ŌRA KING SALMON HELPS RAISE $24,000 FOR LOCAL CHARITY

12 May 2015
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Media release – 07 May 2015.  Chefs Bradley Hornby & Matt Lambert. Charity lunch a huge success in Blenheim Ōra King has helped raise more than $24,000 at a special charity lunch on May 3 in aid of Kaipupu Point Sounds Wildlife Sanctuary. More than 50 guests dined on a...

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Picton Maritime Festival is under way Make sure you stop by for one of our filleting and pin boning demos at 11.30am, 1pm and 2pm

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Tomorrows forecast for the Picton Maritime Festival is looking brilliant ☀️ We will have some tasty salmon for sale, samples of our Omega..

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We hope you all had a relaxing Christmas and New Year break! Stay safe on your journeys home and have a brilliant 2018

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Hey Marlborough! Tomorrow morning our Picton team are going to be picking up rubbish off some of our beautiful beaches as part of the Marine..

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