what can we do today to put pressure on our government to fix this?

Now to spread the word and put pressure on government to make change and return the fish to the people of Aotearoa.

If a fish dies in the ocean does anybody hear about it?

Any updates on the state of the scallop population there today?

I have to say, the presenters on this video are talking absolute trash. For starters, a net that you can fly a 747 into, yes those nets do exist but they are not nets that scrape along the seabed, they are midwater trawls for catching pelagic species like herring and Mackerel. In our country (Scotland) these vessels are strictly monitored and regulated. Most are tied up in port 8-9 months of the year The Seafloor taking 7 years to recover.... I was the skipper of a fishing vessel for over 30 years. my Father and Grandfather were skippers before me, in fact our family has a documented history of fishing that goes back 700 years. For around 600 of those year's we have fished the same areas of the North Sea. We go back and fish the same fishing grounds week in and week out. If fishing is so bad for the Seabed why are we still catching fish there?

This is such foolish talk and inhumane criminal acts being committed by criminals who are not being convicted for these kind of criminal acts being committed by everybody own people who claims to be the good people of their people on earth 🌎, and it's even more evil to just look at what's being done to just the fish 🐟 and not looking at what's being done to everybody own people on earth 🌍 by their own people that's putting a price tag on everything and everybody as human beings in this world 🌍 we all are apart of as 1 creation when our Creator just put it here for all of us on earth 🌎 to just live off of and not value over ourselves and our souls and Family life on earth 🌎 just doesn't make no sense at all by those who are talking none sense right before everybody eyes 👀 like this on TV and videos which plain to see 🙈 they are criminals commiting criminal acts and should not be allowed to do such crimes like this against humanity in a creation we all are apart of on earth 🌍 because they are getting away with it like it's nothing wrong that they are doing to everybody in this world 🌎 and acting like it's a right civilized thing to be doing and causing to everybody in the world 🌎 and not just fish 🐟🌊 in the waters of the world 🌎 when it's not right to be living like this on earth 🌎 because it takes advantage of others of your own people on earth 🌎 in a land that belongs to you all to be sharing equally amongst one another, and if you was living civilized like you suppose to on earth 🌎 you would not have one human being trying to practice control and greed over the other on earth 🌎 just favoring them and theirs and saying F everybody else in the world 🌎 as if we all ain't on this earth 🌎 together as our Creator created all thing's to be on this earth 🌎 we all are apart of as 1 creation and it should always stay this way in life without anyone taking the true meaning out of life and surviving in the world 🌎 just to live because why should you be trying to make a living in a creation of plenty our Creator gave to all of us on earth 🌎, and not to just some of us on earth 🌎 but all of us on earth 🌎 to be sharing the earth 🌎 and building family life on earth 🌍 and having offsprings to keep producing life on earth 🌎 which is living normal on earth 🌍 like civilized human beings suppose to be living equal on earth 🌎 because if you are not sharing the earth 🌎 you are not taking care of the earth 🌎 and one another on earth 🌎 without all the other BS being created, made up, and promoted, and spreaded by those of everybody own people on earth 🌎 who is the ones causing all of this evil in the world 🌍 instead of practicing live and let live in peace all around the world 🌎 in a land that belongs to all of you on earth 🌎, and this will keep going on in the world 🌎 if everybody on earth 🌎 don't admonish their own people who keep trying to curse the land and everybody else Family life like this on earth 🌎 and don't do away with their own evil spirit people that's trying to live like this on them in the world 🌍 because they are being a Big curse to the earth 🌎 and creating division and confusion and wars amongst humanity to keep everybody on earth 🌎 from sharing the earth 🌎 the gift of life that was given to all of us on earth 🌎 and not just them and theirs you see 👀!!!???? Wake up world 🌎 and do away with your own sell out people on earth 🌎 you see 👀!!!!???? The original Native Black King 👑 Z 👑😡🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Corruption, nz government and the big fishing companies, you know who you are, f@#king thief's

World wide the fish we eat coming from aquaculture over 50 percent of the total.. New Zealand should invest in aquaculture to preserve the fish, not just salmon but expand to others as well. It is the sign of the time..

Well said. Trawling needs to be banned world wide.

Excellent work

"effectly eliminating it from community transmission" ?

rec's do not go out day in day out and fish for hapuka and bass and bluenose. its the long liners who catch tonns every trip out. way way way more than the recs can catch! blame the coms for taking hapuka and bluenose. and making them less and less available to the public fishers...

Thank you for producing this Doco Mike. Anyone that has watched this doco needs to share and repost as many times as possible.

Must be a hidden part of NZ fisheries. The atrocity that is the Ross Sea Tooth Fish quota. Scientists have been lobbying NZ government for many years trying to get some form of "cease and desist" on this deep sea fish that has an estimated lifespan of 50 or more years. But no, money is king, NOT nature. They scientists themselves are trying to understand the lifespan, reproduction and nursery of this fish.

Wow. 3 years on, the government has done their best to extinguish small business in every sector in society, same as they did with the fishery.

The seals are dying of starvation in the Bay of Plenty because of the excessive fishing.

Great doco. However bit much push towards maori rights......Should be for everyone without prededious...and maori should have access the same as everyone else as long as they are not abusing the right.....there was never an intention of co governance in the original treaty, there are some versions that appear to have been 'updated' Besides there were numerous earlier settlers than the maori... there is heaps of evidence to support this well hidden fact.

No wonder the price of snapper is what it is !! 🐟🐟

I’ve seen a lot of documentaries. But none of those pointed out all the environmental AND social aspects as good as this one. Great research !! Looking foreword to see more of your videos 👍👍

The question came up in the comments: "What can we do to help?" The answer is to enlist Oceanic Mercenaries to start attacking the large commercial fishing vessels if things don't change soon. Put an end to those pirates! We need to protect ourselves and our interests if these criminals are damaging our fisheries and putting our lives in jeopardy. "An eye for an eye" stipulates that if they offend us, we must retaliate in kind. Get rid of their ships so they can't threaten your lives. It's not just because a few wealthy people who are out to make a profit think it's okay. There is a plethora of legislation that is morally questionable, unfair, completely made up, and illegally exploitative. It's bloody time axction is taken to save our natural resources - to hell with the Monopolists.

Trawling is definitely NOT like pouring diesel on a field or as destructive as mining the metals for phone batteries

We have the same issue in North Carolina. You've done an incredible job laying it all out. I'm hoping to make the same thing only I am going to add specific calls to action. Has this video brought about any changes over the last 2 years?

I'm a Canadian old enough to remember when Newfoundland was basically fished out. On the west coast it's not much better. Look at us if you want to see the future if nothing is done.

Everyone knows this is terrible many pretend it is not, It seems the commercial fishing people are a protected species, so far since this video NZ fisheries or MPI or our ministers have done nothing to improve the marine life and our sea birds lot, The Fishing companies certainly wont

I've been diving our coast since the late 70's, what a change ive seen from snorkling off a beach and getting a feed of scallops to now seeing them gone. It is like watching our entire marine ecosystem disappear in slow motion. The scary thing is we have Fisheries NZ and ministers needing to step up to the plate and fix it, problem is they are the ones that in my book let it happen, none have the enough big ones to rain in the big commercial fishing companies who have proven time and time again they are not responsible operators. The only way we can sort this is have people or scientists make decisions based on what is best for the enviroment, not the commercial fishing industry. Until that happens i doubt it will improve, We have watched the Muscle reefs of the gulf get destroyed now the scallops nationally Crayfish are on there last legs, and many of the fish species are struggling. Just look at the once abundant TARAKIHI. To Often we make the right decision to cut numbers etc when it is easy to make..and thats when theres nothing left to take, We have just done this with scallops. If god could see what some of our people are doing i am sure he would cry

Well done LegaSea NZ !!

Thank you for you mahi bringing these issues to light

I have been working on trawlers foe the last 37 years and i have never herd or seen such absolute rubish.

Champiyn net

You need to speak to the world economic forum. There members are the route cause for alot of these problems. Gee of man

Humans are killing the planet. It is only a matter of time before we become extinct. The Earth will recover and a new balanced ecosystem will emerge. We are horrible creatures: greedy, selfish, stupid and plunderers. If we look back five thousand years we see evidence of human activity such a religious structures, the pyramids or cave drawings even. Looking five thousand years into the future we will not be around anymore. In 1900 the human population was around one billion; today it is around seven billion people. The doubling of the human population is taking less and less time. Do we really believe this can just continue? Last year we killed around 100 million sharks. For what? Just the fins. It is beyond belief. The sooner humans are gone the sooner the planet can recover from the assault we have been inflicting on the Earth.

This is another, ill avoid mentioning the real solution because the answer is not paletable and I do not want to be cancelled. 1, More people, means more demand on energy, electrical goods, heating, cooking, air con,food, beit fish or farm. 2, Demand drives destruction. 3,Look at Ethiopia, starving until live aid interveened with a population of 40 million, now returned to breeding health, there are now 118 million. 4, All the BS about climate change and carbon neutral is exactly that. 5, Todays youth are destroying the planet with their insatiable appetite for all electronic goods from phones, computers, computer games, cars and cheap fast food. CONCLUSION, TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET AND INCREASING. NOT ROCKET SCIENCE BUT NO ONE DARE SAY IT. Except for David Attenborough.

hi grandad miss u

Mainly the West, and lately China, with their hugh fishing fleets; have devastated the oceans; in their own waters, then everyone else's..

6 metre wide net is industry standard

747? Nope

Fantastic, and yes, please give all your fish heads and frames to those that cannot fish. Valuable Kai!! So, a massive AWESOME to all LegaSeas hard work and passion for our moana, which is a Taonga and not something to be "raped"/dredged etc, through greed for profit or to feed your need if the balance and harmony of species is out of kilter. I'm seeing a huge change, and very worried about our oceans future. Remember, nearly 50%of our oxygen, that humans need for life, to breathe, comes from tiny ,vital, microscopic marine creatures in our oceans. With sea temperatures soaring ,90%of earth's oceans, we don't have long Whanau, fellow humans before life, let alone the major currents at their slowest flow rate ever, collapse. Very dire times indeed, so put all your awareness into educating others, friends, Whanau, family, communities, in order to help our moana, our oceans, stay living!!! And thank you LegaSea. Kia Kaha and good luck for rest of this year

Great record of 2021...Thanks

Good work! I love fish!! 😁

You grow Kiwi's in Nieuw Zeeland?

Hi I'm a UK guy,the truth of the whole industry world wide Is ,the Oceans are heavily over fished ,end of .

b s

LOL what the hell did Reagan have to do with the Kiwis?

less people, nicer planet. Please Covid-19, decimate the human race.

SO WHAT? Are you hoping some other country will help you fix it? What? DO SOMETHING! Don’t just whine and cry about it.

Great

Well anglers don't need to keep fish at all. I haven't kept or killed a fish (apart from for bait) in 10 years. Before that I returned 90% of ALL fish I caught I was returning GOOD EDIBLE FISH 50 years ago in the name of conservation. BLOODY WASTE OF TIME. Never did I imagine the mind numbing stupidity of the commercials. I don't fish much these days, I still remember the GOOD YEARS - and I have the photos to prove it.....A brilliant but saddening documentary!

I used to live there , I have nothing nice to say about New Zealand

love fishing