An Auckland food import and wholesale business has been convicted and fined $60,000 for knowingly importing and selling “unauthorised” fish. This freshwater fish can’t be imported under New Zealand’s biosecurity rules, MPI said. “Khan falsely declared that the fish were Sardinella longiceps (Indian Sardines) in order to receive clearance for importation of 3500kg of the fish,” MPI director of compliance Gary Orr said. “MPI takes any breach of New Zealand’s biosecurity very seriously especially given the fish was imported as a result of misleading information,” he said. In 2017, the BBC dubbed the Hisla “the fish that is being loved to death” after an investigation into how overfishing was depleting stocks.

Source: Stuff July 29, 2020 21:26 UTC