This picture was taken by Greenpeace in 2005 in the international waters of the Tasman Sea where a crewman on the New Zealand bottom trawler Waipori dumped a large piece of 'Paragorgia' coral dredged from the deep sea in their net. In the first year of the fishery 20 bottom trawlers were estimated to have brought up over 10,000 tones of coral. This figure does not include coral that was damaged but not brought up in the nets. By contrast, at the same time the catch of orange roughy - the target species in this fishery - was reported to be less than 4,000 tones. That is 60 percent more coral than fish - an extreme pice to pay for a fish older than your grandparents.
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This picture was taken by Greenpeace in 2005 in the international waters of the Tasman Sea where a crewman on the New Zealand bottom trawler Waipori dumped a large piece of 'Paragorgia' coral dredged from the deep sea in their net. In the first year of the fishery 20 bottom trawlers were estimated to have brought up over 10,000 tones of coral. This figure does not include coral that was damaged but not brought up in the nets. By contrast, at the same time the catch of orange roughy - the target species in this fishery - was reported to be less than 4,000 tones. That is 60 percent more coral than fish - an extreme pice to pay for a fish older than your grandparents.

© Greenpeace/Malcolm Pullman

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