Today our friends in the Hauraki Gulf Alliance told the Environmental Select Committee exactly why we want to ban destructive bottom trawling from the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.
Watch here:
#ocean #ProtectTheOceans #BanBottomTrawling #hauraki #TikapaMoana #NZPol
Last year Greenpeace and the HGA handed in a petition signed by over 36,000 people calling for a ban on bottom trawling. There is no place for this destructive fishing method in a marine park, where species from snapper to dolphins are struggling.
Overwhelmingly people living around Tīkapa Moana - The Hauraki Gulf want bottom trawling gone. Over 80% of people have said so. Many turned out for a flotilla with @greenpeace and Forest and Bird in March last year calling for the same #BanBottomTrawling
It’s time the Government listened. The new Hauraki Gulf Protection Bill still allows bottom trawling in large areas of the marine park. And a recent amendment would see commercial fishing in protected areas 🤯
#ocean
#ProtectTheOceans
#BanBottomTrawling
#hauraki #TikapaMoana
Join the call fighting back against the latest announcement that ring net fishing will be allowed to continue in protected areas.
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#ocean
#ProtectTheOceans
#BanBottomTrawling
#hauraki #TikapaMoana
Ika Makimaki
