New Zealand trawler's latest catch triggers closure

[@daapgaming]

That’s shocking, and rather unruly shame on New Zealand

[@exluvrx]

shame on our govt not us

[@NgaruawahiaDrones]

This story is to basically stop NZ fisheries while allowing Asian - As a youth I used to watch the huge lights off the Taranaki coast by the Asian Squid trawlers often we believed within the then 3 mile limit - they only stopped when they destroyed the area of fish

[@SandraBonney]

I remember seeing all the asian fishing boats at night when I lived in Oamaru. It was like a city out there on the horizon

[@Xiao_PP]

FACTS

[@NgaruawahiaDrones]

@@SandraBonney So they were there as well that raises the question How many were there around our coasts

[@TIMOR-OWZAT.]

@@SandraBonney Same Here.

[@SandraBonney]

@@NgaruawahiaDrones this was back in the late 80's

[@TheStonedsanta]

Clean green and greed.

[@Sharon-yk7xm]

The damage of the cockles trawlers are killing the food chain for seals and dolphins its so wrong

[@teawaruaedwards274]

Where's that bloody Shane Jones.

[@dwee3005]

Nowhere to be seen when shit hits the fan. Just like every other minister in the current government

[@TonyTeAtlas]

SHAME JONES UNDER A ROCK. OR OVER A BARREL.??

[@MrWillt100]

@@TonyTeAtlas Damn right he's a SHAM!!!!

[@colinmeehan791]

@@dwee3005 SO Liebour were different?

[@grizzz6884]

@@dwee3005 and every other government in the last 50 years

[@RocknRo11Vox110]

A while back I worked on various Deep Sea Fishing Vessels and that happened All the time. That is definitely Nothing New.

[@bendennis4857]

Me too

[@moonuni]

I scratched the work vehicle and got on more trouble than the lady captain.😂

[@nikiTricoteuse]

As long as we keep telling ourselves how clean and green we are, we can apparently cause all the destruction to the environment that we want. What a smug little country we have become. Sadly, until our export markets start sourcing greener providers, and it starts to impact our pockets, nothing will change.

[@Epiphany_nz]

Seismic Blasting is worse, but they're allowed to keep doing it

[@wendyg8536]

Causes earthquakes

[@Hfd678vcdg]

bottom trawling should be banned full stop

[@JinKee]

Well good on them for owning up to it, rather than just throwing the coral overboard and keeping quiet about it and paying the observers off.

[@kiaorakiwi-w8f]

GET RID OF BOTTOM TRAWLING

[@MrWillt100]

Ask Sane Jones what the solution is he went to that American Uni so he'll have all the answers but he may give his clown reply. I believe he missed his calling as a comical genius (no disrespect to all the comedians out there)

[@Antipodean33]

What are they getting a Kilo for coral these days?

[@henkmagnetic3103]

All the bs from the company. They don't give a toss. Anyhow, can't wait till National make regulating voluntary again, because we're such an honest lot in NZ. Yeah right.

[@wendyg8536]

You are deluded..both parties have been undermined by asian scams

[@1001Wildthings]

The govt ditched Fisheries Research Division in the late 1980s. They would go out on the fishing boats (foreign and local) to monitor what was going on, what was caught (including by-catch) and how much they caught. Since then, it seems our coastal fishing has almost disappeared - like the fish - which is why these boats have gone to international waters. Where are all the squid-jiggers now? Or the Orange Roughy, the crayfishers, the scallop dredgers etc? Gone! Past mismanagement has caused the current mismanagement, and no one with any power is looking at the big picture or the future.

[@davidsmith3736]

They should BAN ALL BOTTOM TRAWLING A.S.A.P.

[@Jesus.the.Christ]

Profit over life. That's exactly what this is. The pursuit of profit at the expense of life. The problem isn't the life, the problem is the stupid, relentless pursuit of profit.

[@wendyg8536]

Get real..there is no profit..they are selling this fish rotten and at a loss to destroy the competition..the temu version of fisheries

[@Jesus.the.Christ]

@@wendyg8536 That is still the pursuit of profit at the loss of life.

[@tareqwilson5722]

So dumb. Nz govt responsible...

[@RobertojavierSilvaharth-ub3pz]

Shamefull behavior, but nothing new. I went trawling 20 years ago off the west coast of newzealand and the catch was appalling, plus we had to throw away the undersize catch... I never went back and I am amazed they're still doing it. My father had a trawler in Peru in the 60's, and I remember the bost heeling over severly whilst lifting the catch on board. Today most of the fish is gone and people keep on depleeting the fish banks to fill the money banks. Shamefull!!

[@wendyg8536]

Using the NZ shelf company system

[@tonigilsenan6320]

Omg who's passing the buck here..... this government

[@stevenroberts2490]

They where doing it under labour as well

[@dwee3005]

​@@stevenroberts2490does that make it okay? You can't compare everything with 'the last government did this' That isn't an excuse anymore

[@henkmagnetic3103]

@@stevenroberts2490 - Touchy, touchy. Don't worry, Capital Gains Tax not going affect your wealth just yet. When it does, you can blame Labour again.

[@grizzz6884]

@@dwee3005 yep it is all governments of the last 50 years a lot of which winston has been a part of

[@tanepukenga1421]

@@stevenroberts2490 Which they had to hide. You kinda own goaled with that one: One government would've held them accountable, so they waited until the next one where they know they wouldn't be.

[@outback109]

The iwi with their Japanese partners protecting the resources.

[@jonymanay]

Just remember when that fisheries officer books you for 1cm under on your 7 fish limit. That your keeping the ocean pristine for the big suits trawler boats. 😂

[@lloydbeattie9370]

What happened to there computer, we didn't see that reef . On the map .

[@ThePhilcam]

? The government or Ministy of fisheries?

[@uncletiggermclaren7592]

If something is covered by statutory law, the relevant authority is acting ON the instruction of Government. That is what is happening when the police officer arrests you when you drink too much at the Federated Farmers meeting, and breach the law of the land driving home. Parliament voted in the law suggested by the Ministers of the Crown, the Ministry of Police instructs the Commissioner of Police on the new law, the Duty sergeants tell the patrol officers to go after the selfish right wingers in their 4-wheel drives. How did you get to be an adult not knowing all of that?.

[@johnlowe8418]

@@uncletiggermclaren7592 lol

[@michaelferguson651]

​@@johnlowe8418 x 2

[@williamskyner2887]

Is it run by Chinese

[@grizzz6884]

yep lets hope she did not pick the captain we might lost the whole ship

[@henkmagnetic3103]

Yeah, and who were the Richard's that give them the permits, good old Kiwis.

[@Glaciershark]

37 kilos are you kidding i’m sure it was more than that

[@nathanielstedman4724]

Usual ignorant dribble. Given permit yet she called it illegal.

[@kiwitransgirl]

I got black coral from a fishing boat

[@Xiao_PP]

37 kgs how is this news

[@vindogg87]

bruh they shouldn't be doing it at all

[@Longtack55]

It is Chinese chartered, and it demonstrates a cultural disdain for ecological harm - particularly by bottom-trawling.

[@gutterslug276]

do you know how light coral is? thats a lot of fuckin coral

[@cathyclark6652]

Problem, reaction, solution! signed sealed and delivered! Being going on for centuries - it's all an angle to get their agenda!

[@Antipodean33]

37 kgs, how much they getting a kg for coral these days?

[@geoffhoutman1557]

NZ 35% Pure

[@8Littleblue]

Shocking!! Just stop!

[@HansRegenburg]

There are worse things that happen that the govt ignore or are lighthanded on

[@chrisgoffe5048]

..typical

[@kiaorakiwi-w8f]

Should be banned

[@KRISHOLYONENZ]

GOD help us what have we done 🙏🏼

[@Sam-wn5qp]

Where is Russian fishing trawlers??????,

[@syedwaqarali6776]

God bless New Zealand

[@DadaCara-hf7sy]

Nz govt bs shame on them 😢😢😢

[@davywithers3237]

AOTEAROA is f.....d all about profit

[@Tony_Lewis]

Fine them 50 Billion dollars

[@williamgage4825]

👍🌹💚

[@uggali]

Disgraceful and typical

[@NZ-ms3vc]

Greed

[@MG-fr3tn]

All the tech is take and take in a monnitry production damaging way, wealfare. Wealfare after all the science and tecnology. Wealfare for rights.grow up.

[@calthorp]

Why don't you put a bit of good news in as well at times. like on Labour Day, Seafood New Zealand had some more good news about bycatch. Our figures show the jack mackerel 7 fishery (JMA 7) has achieved zero bycatch for the 2023/24 fishing year. Zero - no dolphins, seals, sea lions or seabirds. Or Sealords about how seal deaths on their vessels have dropped by around a third in the last year. This is thanks to a combination of measures their crews have been using in the Cook Strait. The measures included underwater cameras to understand seal behaviour, avoiding fishing when seals are most active, binding the top of the net when deploying the fishing gear and introducing SEDs (Seal Exclusion Devices) to give the seals an escape hatch. The result? 49 seals were captured in the 2023/24 fishing year, down from 68 in 2022/23 and 78 in 2021/22. 37kg of coral in a spot that is not even likely to have anyone go look at it does not sound so sensational against the other 2. MPI & the fishers are trying to reduce negative impact. But just living is not negative impact. We all impact our environment. Let us ALL help to do what we can. People have to eat & live a fair life.

[@emzRotorua123]

All I see is that you knew this whole time and did nothing about it.

[@SeanKearney-tu4by]

All highly commendable but too little too late. Nz waters are very speedily becoming devoid of life at all levels. I dont think the Hauraki gulf will ever recover from the decades of overfishing and plundering it has been subject to since the second WW. The seabird colonies in the gulf are gone. The skies are empty. The fish are gone. Multiple species. Waters are empty. Even the myriad organisms which break down flesh are so reduced that around Waiheke discarded bait can remain untouched in the water for days. All the activity which brought us to this point continues with a vengance. More people than ever before chasing less fish than ever before. A bit of lip service, teeth gnashing, hand wringing and business as usual. Plunder.plunder,plunder. It is not coming back folks. You dont want it. You want jobs and money.

[@cathyclark6652]

@@SeanKearney-tu4by Same on land - I give the birds bread crusts, but they lay untouched as there are so few birds to eat it - 1080 has ruined the bush life! also, the birds tweet in the middle of the night - they are needed to open leaves and flowers with their morning chorus which is mostly non-existent!

[@MG-fr3tn]

Tell everyone all the maths in total and we would chip in for free if a cuustom build fish trap was up for global input. We gave you teck and goverments give you expedancy.

[@katepearse4784]

Disgusting behaviour! Must be another of Luxtons buddies doing whatever they want!

[@NZFarmboy80]

Was happening under Labour as well

[@dwee3005]

​@@NZFarmboy80labour forced the trawlers to install cameras which Shane Jones has since removed so what are you talking about

[@matiupyro660]

🤬😤WTF? ........WTF?? 😠🤬😤😎🏴‍☠️

[@neiltf1173]

Shame NZ

[@jacobgorst8357]

Cue the emotionally incontinent Gaia worshipers. I wonder if this would have made the news if labour was in charge.

[@Kaboomnz]

So you're mad at labour voters because this story made the news? lmao, seems like you're the emotionally incontinent.

[@Mum-d4y]

Stu

[@Johnie-n6j]

nz herald is a joke but nobody is laughing

[@JasonHorheis]

37 kg lol that's weak asf

[@norincobro6421]

Who gives a toss about a tiny bit of coral ? Greenie lefties. Boo hoo.