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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There you go! ACT is taking on the key issues affecting or society!! Move aside inequality, cost of living, climate, infrastructure, education, emigration, environment, etc, etc… Karakias 🙄 #fuckwits www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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ACT pledges ban on compulsory karakia in resource consents

The ACT party says it wants to "leave spirituality out of infrastructure" as it proposes to rule out any need to take part in a religious ceremony as a condition of resourcing consent.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We should not stop insisting that seabed carbon protection, important as it is, cannot and must not be used as an excuse to avoid the primary climate imperative: stopping fossil carbon emissions into the atmosphere. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/10...

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Beyond the Ban: Rethinking Bottom Trawling and Seabed Carbon — Francisco Blaha

The debate over bottom trawling's impacts on seabed carbon has intensified recently. Policymakers and environmental advocates often paint the issue in stark terms: bottom trawls disturb the seafloor, ...

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As a kid, I was fascinated by globes… at 62, I still am

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I always said than other than a fisherman & scientist, in B life, I would love to have been a philosopher… Carlo Rovelli shows that you can be both economist.com/podcasts/202...

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Carlo Rovelli on what physicists get wrong

Our podcast on science and technology. This week, our interview with the quantum physicist on the relative nature of reality

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Look NZ Government!... Remember when you took off the rebate as soon as you got in? Imagine how much better we could be facing this crisis if you weren't such retrogrades and culture-war types www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

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200 percent jump: Petrol prices drive EV surge

Higher fuel prices are driving New Zealanders to electric vehicles in significant numbers.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Goodbye friend Marin Larkspur … after 17 years of taking me in many places around in the world, someone else in recently arrived and looking for freedom can have you for free thanks to the social services of the Netherlands

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry for ignorance… but is this exactly the opposite of what successive governments in NZ have committed to do? #Fuckwits Greenhouse gases hit record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

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Greenhouse gases hit record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows

The greenhouse gases that cause global warming have increased to new record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got hold of the deepest study on the until relatively recently (2012) discussed case of 3 existing islands not included in the 1899 Spain-Germany sale agreement of the Carolinas, Palau and Marianas. And as such, potentially, the last remaining Spanish “possessions” in the Pacific. 🙄 Colonialism 101

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Building capacity means not just training programmes and technical assistance, but also fixing the underlying economics that make it so expensive to maintain sufficient talent in the office and sustain continuous international engagement. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/9/...

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Representing MIMRA at the FAO PSM Strategy Working Group — Francisco Blaha

I'm in Madrid this week at the 3rd FAO Port State Measures Strategy and Monitoring Working Group. I'm representing the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA), which has really capable pe...

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I spent over 2/3 of my life away from Argentina… which never cease to surprise as a progressively deepening and never ending shitshow… but still is home to people I deeply care for… all this is soooo fucked up

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

News that the New Zealand Government is the subject of a complaint to the EU for acting unfairly by not following climate regulations imposed on all European trade partners is a very serious land-mark case that will be watched around the world. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2026/09/30/n...

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NZ's trade with Europe at risk after climate complaint - Expert Reaction

An official complaint alleges that NZ has broken its climate promises, failing to uphold its legal commitments in the EU-NZ Free Trade Agreement. Dutch climate group Both ENDS is lodging the first com...

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Matty Angel @mattyangel.com · 30/09/2026

So ... Looking at this, www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... I noticed that watch on Luxon, It cost 25,000 dollars, www.partridgejewellers.com/speedmaster-... Soooo, is that what he considers basics? Cause he said we need to focus on basics....

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This week, the U.N. General Assembly affirmed that statehood endures the loss of land. The Republic of the Marshall Islands will persist despite rising seas. The question is how Marshallese people can continue living there safely. time.com/article/2026...

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What the World Owes the Marshall Islands

We cannot completely hold back the rising seas. But we can do a lot more to limit that rise and to choose how we meet it, writes Hilda C. Heine.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Judge Walsh discharged Finegan without conviction and ordered him to pay $1500 for emotional harm. This so fucked up. After you read what these guys did to a taxi driver trying to get paid, tell me how that outcome is fair? Imagine what Finnegan could do next time www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

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Army officer attacked taxi driver after being asked for $20 fare

New Zealand Army intelligence officer Arthur Finegan denied a "nasty" assault - until he was confronted with CCTV footage showing an attack that left a taxi driver unconscious.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now… this should be the NZ opposition campaign video

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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unfortunately for Opportunity their fisheries bottom line is factually incorrect. Australia, Peru, Chile and New Zealand all bottom trawl the South Pacific. We are the only country that bottom trawls the South Pacific High Seas which is a very different proposition. Kayla Kingdon-Bebb knows this.

4. Revive ocean health
New Zealand is the only country that still bottom trawls in the South Pacific. Enough. We will demand an overhaul of the Fisheries Amendment Bill that phases-out bottom trawling to restore fish stocks and build a sustainable blue economy for the next generation.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry Agrarian Poet-Writer-Activist

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This paper's message is useful to 3 groups, none of whom are fishers. The certifier gets evidence for its value. The company can say, "we are already audited", and the government can point to the company and say the sector is moving in the right direction. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/9/...

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Certifying the law instead of enforcing it — Francisco Blaha

I get notifications when papers I published get quoted, and only sometimes do I really get to read them, yet this one caught my eye as it supported a private certification, which is one of my nemesis...

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My trusty Bianchi Volpe from 1991 in it 4th continent

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey everyone, just letting you know my son Felix is performing in a play he wrote and directed in the Waiheke short play festival from Friday to Sunday (25-27 September), please do try make it to one of the shows if you can :) is quite unique show. www.artworkstheatre.org.nz/events/waihe...

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Waiheke Short Play Festival

Enjoy an entertaining journey through a collection of bite-sized stories devised, written, directed and performed by locals.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is hypocrisy and then there is this

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

F*ck no… some vandalising them will be on the menu for many

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you work for a donor agency, a ministry, a research institution or a company that benefits from independent market intelligence, GLOBEFISH is one of the better value propositions in this sector, and Shirlene Maria Anthonysamy always makes things happen! www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/9/...

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The unglamorous infrastructure: why GLOBEFISH deserves your attention, and donor's money — Francisco Blaha

I first met Shirlene Anthonysamy when she was at INFOFISH in Kuala Lumpur in 2007. I was asked to train on post-harvest handling of tuna in India, and INFOFISH was one of those organisations that ev...

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Doing tha Alpe Adria cycle route - Salzburg to Grado (Italian Adriatic) with @vibeke.bsky.social. Day 3 Villach to Chiusaforte, must be some of the most beautiful riding I’ve done in my life. We should keep trains, but if they have to be removed, make it a cycling route strava.app.link/tf4jWgwBA6b

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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What Luxon, Seymour and Willis are doing to our New Zealand Public services. Courtesy of Project 2025 #nzpol

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Supermarkets cry too! News… don’t just focus’s on our disproportionate earnings, we also have problems. Here is an example. And to the reporter, did you ever tought about telling us on the present health condition of the user of the incendiary scooter? #NZnews www.rnz.co.nz/news/emergen...

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Te Kuiti supermarket damaged after mobility scooter catches fire

A supermarket in Te Kuiti has been damaged after a mobility scooter caught fire.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Arvid Pardo said international law does not exist in a vacuum; it reflects the beliefs and perceived interests of the most influential states at any given time. The authors quote him. He was right in 1984, and he was right in the FAO COFI room. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/9/...

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Equity is in the text. Getting it out of the text is the problem. — Francisco Blaha

Let me start with two disclosures. First, Bianca Haas is a friend. We have talked about fisheries governance in enough places that I cannot pretend to read her work as a neutral party. The second dis...

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stoked to see my pictures again on the cover and in the chapters of key regional documents. Thanks, Pacific Community www.spc.int/digitallibra...

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DHS @drhsinghnz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In 2004, Moana Jackson dismantled the "Māori privilege" narrative in a historic debate with Gerry Brownlee. He reminded us of a fundamental truth: restoring stolen land & honouring Te Tiriti isn't "privilege"; it's justice. A masterclass in clarity over political theatre. #NZPol #TeTiriti

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think the problem starts with classifying an old prawn trawler as a "ferry"; it clearly wasn't designed for cargo or passengers, and that's the Vanuatu Maritime Safety Authority's (VMSA) responsibility. SAR operations can't be blamed for unsafe vessels being at sea. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...

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At least 30 missing after inter-island ferry sinks off Vanuatu coast

Vanuatu authorities have been searching for survivors after an inter-island ferry carrying 34 passengers and 11 crew members sank in critical weather conditions.

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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Punks: the trojan horse of gentrification.

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to," Dorothy Parker

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