Press release Greenpeace
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Press release Greenpeace
12 November 2024The cost of trawling:
3,000kg dead coral in one year - Greenpeace AotearoaIn the wake of news that a New Zealand bottom trawler destroyed coral in the international waters of the South Pacific, Greenpeace and the DSCC are today revealing the cost of trawling in zone: nearly 3000 kg of dead coral in one year.
The New Zealand trawl fleet pulled up and killed at least 2,676 kg of coral and sponges, the building blocks of ocean life, over a one-year period, according to the most up-to-date figures.
Over the same time period, 522 seabirds, including albatross and petrels, and 152 mammals were killed, mostly New Zealand fur seals, with ten critically endangered Hector’s dolphins also dying in trawl nets.
The cost of trawling: 3,000kg dead coral in one year - Greenpeace Aotearoa
In the wake of news that a New Zealand bottom trawler destroyed coral in the international waters of the South Pacific, Greenpeace and the DSCC are today revealing the cost…
Greenpeace Aotearoa (www.greenpeace.org)
