Sea Shepherd New Zealand

25/09/2026

🌊"Ko tatou ko te moana, fakaoti, ko te moana ko tatou“
"We are the ocean and the ocean is us.” 🌊

For Tuvalu, the ocean is far more than the water surrounding its islands. It is food, livelihood, culture, knowledge and identity, passed from one generation to the next.
But protecting it is an enormous challenge.
Tuvalu is a small island nation responsible for policing a vast area of the South Pacific. Illegal fishing vessels can take advantage of those distances, operating far from shore and putting both marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them at risk.
Two years ago, Sea Shepherd Global began working with the Government of Tuvalu to strengthen its ability to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing at sea.
This year, that partnership reached an important milestone.
What happened next didn't just result in the first vessel arrest under our partnership. It sent a message across the water.
🎥 Watch our new video to see what happened at sea, why other fishing vessels quickly changed their behaviour, and what this partnership means for the future of Tuvalu's ocean.
Now on our YouTube channel.
🏴‍☠️🌊 https://youtu.be/4qMpZxj9wjY See less

“We are the ocean and the ocean is us.” 🌊For Tuvalu, the ocean is...

16/08/2026

⛔️⛔️ For the second year in a row, the Antarctic krill fishing fleet has reached its 620,000 tonne trigger catch level.
Last year, this happened for the first time in history, forcing the fishery to close months early. Now, it has happened again.
Without safeguards limiting where krill can be caught, industrial fishing has been allowed to concentrate in the feeding grounds where whales, penguins and seals depend on krill to survive.
Yet instead of introducing the stronger protections Antarctica urgently needs, the krill fishing industry is pushing to increase the permitted catch to as much as 1.1 million tonnes, almost twice the current trigger level.
This is evidence of an industry accelerating its plunder of Antarctica.
Antarctica does not need more industrial krill fishing. It needs stronger protection from it.
Read the full commentary by Peter Hammarstedt, Director of Campaigns at Sea Shepherd Global
https://www.seashepherd.org.nz/latest-news/krill-fishery-closes-early-again/

28/07/2026

🦈 🆘"If you're sitting at a computer looking at fishing activity, you may notice "Chinese fishing vessels smack-dab in the middle of continental Europe ... the Mongolian desert ... even the Australian outback, and that's because the information being put out if simply rubbish."

Tuvalu has arrested a Chinese tuna longliner, borrowing a vessel from a wellknown conservation charity to do so.

On the evening of 9 July, Tuvalu Police Force maritime trackers picked up something strange about a vessel they were watching. From there, they boarded the Allankay, a vessel owned by Sea Shepherd International, and went to investigate.

28/07/2026

🦈🆘> the crew of the Lu Rong Yuan Yu were throwing illegally caught shark fins overboard while stockpiling tuna and keeping essentially no records.

Tuvalu has arrested a Chinese tuna longliner, borrowing a vessel from a wellknown conservation charity to do so.

18/07/2026

🦈 The AK on the job in the Pacific

Police allege it was fishing illegally while broadcasting false location data as Pacific nations face challenges in monitoring their waters.

15/07/2026

🛑 A fishing vessel operating in the dark. False tracking data. Missing authorizations. Unreported shark discards.

These are just some of the violations that led to the arrest of the Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138 in Tuvalu, last week.

Throughout the year, Sea Shepherd vessels operate at sea, collaborating with governments to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and safeguard the Ocean. Currently, the M/V Allankay is assisting the Tuvalu Police Service in the South Pacific by assisting patrols of the waters of this coral atoll nation. 🌊

On 9 July 2026, authorities on board Allankay, detected the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138 fishing at night without navigation lights while transmitting Automatic Identification System (AIS) data that falsely placed the vessel near the equator, far outside Tuvalu's waters.

The vessel also has a documented history of suspicious "dark vessel" activity in Tuvalu. During the inspection, authorities uncovered additional suspected fisheries violations, including missing authorizations and sharks being discarded overboard without being recorded in the vessel's official logbook.

Taken together, these findings led the Tuvalu Police Service to place the vessel under arrest on suspicion of IUU.

This isn't Sea Shepherd's first mission in Tuvalu. ✊
👉 Read the full story on our website to learn more about the arrest, hear from Peter Hammarstedt, the Chief Campaigns Officer, and discover how our partnership is helping protect Tuvalu's waters. 🔗
https://www.seashepherd.org.nz/latest-news/longliner-arrested-tuvalu/
📸 Holly Knight, Youenn Kerdavid / Sea Shepherd

12/07/2026

📣Before a campaign comes a refit. Or is it the other way around? 🤔

Our ships operate around the clock while at sea, so after months of campaigning, they need time alongside to stop completely, undergo essential maintenance, and prepare for their next mission.

That's exactly what happened to the M/V Allankay after returning from its Antarctica campaign. Following a refit in Aotearoa / New Zealand, it is now heading back to the South Pacific to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing once again.

Meanwhile, the M/Y Age of Union continues its campaign against IUU fishing in West Africa, while the M/Y Sea Eagle is doing the same in the Mediterranean.

Our fleet is always on the move, alternating between refit and frontline conservation to ensure our ships are always ready for whatever comes next.

☝️ Stay tuned for the latest updates from our campaigns as we continue defending our oceans. 🌊💙

📸 Guillermo Reverter Cid / Sea Shepherd

18/06/2026

💔There are only 150 - 200 Orca in Aotearoa, now 2 less. Devastating news 😞
Nets both gill and trawl are indiscriminate, do not support the industry.

Two orca have been killed by commercial fishing operators in bycatch incidents, the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries has revealed.

13/06/2026

Great to see progress on this case! Thanks to the Māui and Hector's Dolphin Defenders

If America bans imports of some NZ fish, the Govt argues the industry may simply turn to other markets rather than easing back on fishing. Sam Sachdeva reports.

31/05/2026

❌ This will be the 11th cetacean since 2018 to get messed up by this sh*tty fishing method. Mostly commercial lobster operators but not all. Are those responsible actively looking?
*Please keep a look out:

A southern right whale entangled in a craypot line was last spotted yesterday between Lucky Point and Saddle Point.