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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AquaClaire Mar 3

@pezmico Congratulations! but the article is paywalled, so I hope you will also use open channels to make your results public?

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Ika Makimaki Mar 3

@AquaClaire are you sure?
This one is not paywalled.
I've read it without an account several times today.

The Greenpeace paper is publicly available anyway, just a lot harder to read than the media article.

You can find it here
https://www.sprfmo.int/assets/Meetings/01-COMM/14th-Commission-2026/Observer-/COMM14-Obs05-VME-identified-from-the-2024-VME-encounter-area-a.pdf

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AquaClaire Mar 3

@pezmico Thank you! Yes quite sure, but maybe depends on location? I am still being invited to "Unlock all articles by subscribing to this international offer" for $2 per week, down from $10 per week - a value proposition that may depend on reliable ability to stop the deductions.

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Ika Makimaki

@AquaClaire oh, didn't know they did that for people outside of nz.

try this then ;)

https://archive.ph/xWVlb

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AquaClaire Mar 3

@pezmico Thanks! To summarise:

Videos analysed show 350 different corals and sponges, some >100 years old, on the sea plateau Lord Howe Rise. Deep-sea corals create habitats for thousands of other species. Vulnerable marine ecosystems should be comprehensively protected.
Ban #BottomTrawling!

#NZ #DeepSea #fisheries #biodiversity #ocean #Greenpeace