A fish filleting container created by Royal Wolf for a local Auckland marae is now the centre of a research and development project producing organic fertiliser made from fish gills and offal. Located at Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae in Mangere, the modified 20-foot container is used by The Kai Ika Project which provide tasty fish headsContinue reading “Royal Wolf: COMMUNITY CONTAINER HUB BREAKS FERTILE GROUND”
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NZ Fishing News: NOSE TO TAIL RECIPES
“We want to encourage the use of the whole fish. We hope to empower home chefs to prepare less familiar secondary cuts and demonstrate a variety of recipes to cater for a range of skill levels.”
FISHING and OUTDOORS: Cover story: The Kai Ika Project
Anybody who loves to fish understands the importance of reeling them in responsibly, but are we doing enough off the water to make the most of every catch? In addition to generating social, economic, and cultural benefits, The Kai Ika Project has four main goals: to minimise people’s harmful impact on the marine environment, divertContinue reading “FISHING and OUTDOORS: Cover story: The Kai Ika Project”
VICE Munchies: How Fish Heads Are Improving New Zealand
In Auckland, NZ, The Kai Ika Project was created to utilize fish heads, frames and offal which were previously going to waste. Since September 2016, previously discarded fish parts have been collected from the Outboard Boating Club by Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae whanau and redistributed to families and community groups in South Auckland who value theseContinue reading “VICE Munchies: How Fish Heads Are Improving New Zealand”
Stone Soup: KAI IKA
The best ideas are always simple, they make sense and when you first hear of them, almost every time they make you wonder why you or somebody else didn’t think of it before. LegaSea is a not-for-profit organisation advocating maximum utilisation and minimal impact. They want to encourage people to consume all the fish andContinue reading “Stone Soup: KAI IKA”
Chasing A Plate – Saving 140,000kg of fish from waste
Thomas and Sheena are the creators of the Youtube channel ‘Chasing A Plate‘ and are food and travel friends. Every so often they’ll share videos about Food Disruptors- people, organisations, community groups and projects who are working to tackle problems and effect positive change in the food space. For this video they follwed around TheContinue reading “Chasing A Plate – Saving 140,000kg of fish from waste”
Jacinda Ardern visits The Kai Ika Project
In April 2021 The Kai Ika Project had the privilege of hosting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae, to share the kaupapa around recovering unwanted kai moana to feed appreciative communities. The visit started off with an official pōwhiri for Prime Minister Ardern which led to an opportunity for Ardern to speak: Continue reading “Jacinda Ardern visits The Kai Ika Project”
Kia ora magazine: Sea change
A solution to an environmental challenge has developed into a project that is proving transformational on multiple levels. THEY SAY THE greatest ideas come from problem solving – and that couldn’t be more true for the Kai Ika Project. What began as a quest to find use for discarded fish parts has evolved into aContinue reading “Kia ora magazine: Sea change”
Te Ao: Food cart service fillets your fish and gives proceeds to local marae
The Kai Ika filleting trailer is a food cart with a difference. Based at Auckland’s Westhaven Marina, for just a few dollars they’ll fillet your fish for you. In partnership with five Auckland marae, they distribute the leftover frames and heads to whanau in need and use the guts to fertilise the marae māra kai.
Fish of the Day: Clarke gets his fish filleted at the Kai Ika trailer
Join Clarke Gayford as he heads into the Hauraki Gulf in search of his fish of the day – the New Zealand gurnard. Gurnard are usually caught when fishing for snapper in sandy harbours or out on sandy coastal flats but can Clarke target them specifically to fill an order from world-renown chef Peter Gordon.Continue reading “Fish of the Day: Clarke gets his fish filleted at the Kai Ika trailer”