Word: zealander
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...evidenced by the handful of countries that practice them, catch-share programs remain controversial. In New Zealand, where they've been in place for decades, fishermen complain that the practice leads to unfair consolidation: as large companies buy and amass quotas, smaller operators can't compete with the low prices those big firms can afford to set because they're selling more. Others have raised concerns about the privatization of what has traditionally been considered a public resource. But Knapp says the biggest problem with fish quotas is figuring out how to allocate them fairly in the first place...
...Those measures, however, weren't enough to shore up the nation's largest investment bank, Renaissance Capital, which on Sept. 21 sold a 50% stake to the Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov for $500 million. Just over a month ago, Forbes magazine, in a profile of Renaissance and its New Zealand - born chief executive, Stephen Jennings, reckoned the same stake would have been worth $3.5 billion - seven times as much...
...Fronterra, a New Zealand dairy company and Sanlu shareholder, urges recall...
SEPT. 5-8 New Zealand officials tell Chinese officials. Sanlu finally issues a recall on Sept...