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Marine conservationists warn incoming NZ trawlers – leave our seamounts alone
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) has criticised the federal government for allowing New Zealand factory trawlers to fish for orange roughy around Tasmanian waters because of the disastrous damage they cause to deep sea coral reefs.
Trawlers, belonging to large New Zealand industrial fishing companies like Talleys and allowed by the federal government to fish under Australian laws, recently crossed the Tasman and are already fishing for orange roughy around the crests of underwater mountains.
Recent science, published since last winter’s orange roughy fishing season and underpinned by a major CSIRO research voyage in 2018[1], has shown this type of fishing is likely the most destructive fishery still allowed to operate in Australia. This research showed that impacts of the fishery on deep sea coral reefs last for decades and possibly even centuries[2] as they target the hig
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