Mastodawn

Our Seamounts expedition's scientific results are starting to get out into the world and have some effects! Particularly important with the NZ government's outrageous proposal to allow for more coral to be thrashed without consequence in international waters of the South Pacific.

Lord Howe Rise deep-sea coral ‘proof’ ramps up bottom trawling clash
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lord-howe-rise-deep-sea-coral-proof-ramps-up-bottom-trawling-clash/N5AXLNFJFBHVPNPPIE44M3ZPZQ/

#greenpeace #BanbottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #corals #oceans #fisheries #NZPol #TeamorangeRoughy

Lord Howe Rise deep-sea coral ‘proof’ ramps up bottom trawling clash

Footage identified 350 coral and sponge species on the Lord Howe Rise.

The New Zealand Herald

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Ika Makimaki Mar 3

'“Virtually nothing Greenpeace says or does will ever sway the way I approach New Zealand fisheries policy,” he [Shane Jones] told the Herald.'

-- when your country's Minister for the Oceans is sensible, rational, evidence based and open to robust discussion.

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#NZPol

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Ngati Pakeha Kuia

@pezmico He has done more to ruin our marine environment than any Minister in my living memory. I’m also disgusted with Sealord. Particularly with iwi shareholders who should be more ethical when it comes to fishing methods.