For those of you following the #FishOfTheYear election:

The winner is the Northland Mudfish.

#TeamOrangeRoughy congratulates this tiny, cute and vulnerable freshwater fish on their win. We are disappointed victory eluded us once again, but for a fish that lives over 200 years, waiting to next year to have a go again is OK.

https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/post/press-release-threatened-northland-mudfish-takes-out-fish-of-the-year-crown-after-late-surge

#FOTY

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@pezmico/116168918101067413

Last few days to vote for the centurian #FishOfTheYear, the Orange Roughy!
Don't miss out! Closes on March 15th

https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#OrangeRoughy #FOTY #oceans #Fisheries #teamOrangeRoughy #banbottomTrawling

Controversy erupts in the Fish of the Year election! 🚨

Jono Ridler (the swimmer breaking a record by swimming the length of the North island to raise awareness against bottom trawling) has been entered as a candidate for FOTY 2026.

You get 3 votes. Give one to Orange Roughy, please, and then maybe another to Jono.... if you think he makes a good fish.

https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#FishOfTheYear #FoTY #OrangeRoughy #TeamOrangeRoughy #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #Fisheries

Orange roughy is on a mission to reproduce and recover their population, but it is not true that there's always plenty of fish in the sea, especially when bottom trawling has decimated your species

So they're now giving online dating a go, hoping to find mates.

Vote for Orange Roughy for Fish of the Year 2026, and help them find love and spawn.

https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#fishOfTheYear #FOTY #OrangeRoughy #teamOrangeRoughy #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries

🙏🏽Respect Your Elders.

Orange Roughy:
✔ Lives 200 years
✔ Survives crushing pressure
✔ Has outlived entire human generations

Vote for the 200-Year-Old Underdog

🧡 Vote Orange Roughy for Fish of the Year 🐟 Voting closes Sunday March 15.
https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#OrangeRoughy #teamOrangeRoughy #fishOfTheYear #FOTY #banBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries

"I've lived in the deep sea for over 200 years.
Bottom trawling is destroying my coral garden home 🪸.
Most of my friends are gone 😢
My numbers are dwindling, and I cannot recover fast enough."

Poor Orange Roughy!

Your vote can help it be seen.

🧡 Vote Orange Roughy for Fish of the Year. 🐟 Voting closes Sunday March 15.
https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#OrangeRoughy #teamOrangeRoughy #FOTY #FishOfTheYear #oceans #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean

The news are terrible.

Look at the fish and choose your favourite instead.

(It's the #OrangeRoughy, vote for the loveable ugly Orange Roughy)

https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#teamOrangeRoughy #FOTY #FishOfTheYear

Here is your #OrangeRoughy fun fact of the day! 🧡 🐟

Orange Roughy is how most of us know them today. But they have had many names over the years!

Their scientific name is Hoplostethus atlanticus, and their common name used to be "slimehead" but that was abandoned as it was commercially unappealing. They have also been called "Red Roughy" and "Deep sea perch".

Some fishers also call them "Napoleons" because of their long lives, referencing the fact that some of them have been alive since Napoleon's time!

Whatever name you want to call them, please vote today for these fascinating fishies of the deep to raise awareness about the issue of bottom trawling!

https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#FOTY #FishofTheYear #TeamOrangeRoughy #banBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries

Your #OrangeRoughy fun fact of the day:

These fish live very slow paced lives. They only start reproducing after they reach between 20 - 30 years of age and scientist believe they are fully sexually mature when they reach about 70 years!

This is one of the main reasons their population recovery is so slow, and they are highly vulnerable to bottom trawling.

Vote for these chilled out, long-lived friends in the deep for Fish of the Year 2026! 🐟 🪸

https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#TeamOrangeRoughy #FOTY #FishOfTheYear #oceans #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOceans