Joint Media release from Deepsea Conservation Coalition New Zealand members: ECO, Greenpeace, Forest & Bird, Our Seas Our Future, WWF – New Zealand and LegaSea. 19 February 2020.
As a result of the New Zealand Government’s lobbying efforts on behalf of the fishing industry, a regional fisheries meeting this week has only made small steps toward increasing protection of the ocean from bottom trawling, and a Talley’s vessel has been taken off an international blacklist.