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:

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/environment/news-archive/watch-public-meetings-of-the-environment-committee/

#ocean #ProtectTheOceans #BanBottomTrawling #hauraki #TikapaMoana #NZPol

Watch public meetings of the Environment Committee - New Zealand Parliament

Watch public meetings of the Environment Committee

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.

#ocean
#ProtectTheOceans
#BanBottomTrawling
#hauraki

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

#ocean
#ProtectTheOceans
#hauraki #TikapaMoana

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

PETITION: Protect the Hauraki Gulf

Reverse the decision to open protected areas of the Hauraki Gulf to commercial fishing

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