{"id":332387,"date":"2026-03-16T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332387\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:25:12","slug":"ikana-new-zealand-limited-fined-20000-over-illegal-live-green-lipped-mussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332387\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikana New Zealand Limited fined $20,000 over illegal live green-lipped mussels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The controlled area notice has been in place across areas of the South Island since 2015. <\/p>\n

In October 2024, a biosecurity inspector discovered seafood producers and processors were moving the mussels. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese green-lipped mussel shellfish were for export, and the unlawful movement of this shellfish had potential to cause serious reputational harm to the New Zealand shellfish industry,\u201d Orr said.<\/p>\n

The aquaculture companies that allegedly supplied the shellfish to Ikana are also facing charges under the Biosecurity Act and are still before the court, along with several other associated companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vast majority of people who work in the commercial fishing industry are responsible and do the right thing by following all rules and regulations,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we find evidence of offending \u2013 we take action.” <\/p>\n

Orr encouraged people to report any suspected illegal activity through the Ministry for Primary Industries\u2019 0800 4 POACHER line (0800 476 224).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The controlled area notice has been in place across areas of the South Island since 2015. In October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46871,178427,74,1558,52082,1656,19631,166409,178426,16484,15975,541,4960,130,121032,117,111,43,139,69,1523,49478,18678,131,80],"class_list":["post-332387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-46871","tag-259000kg","tag-after","tag-been","tag-christchurchbased","tag-company","tag-fined","tag-greenlipped","tag-ikana","tag-illegal","tag-illegally","tag-limited","tag-live","tag-more","tag-mussels","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-receiving","tag-shellfish","tag-than","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}