Juan Parada

Greenpeace is calling for New Zealand to stop bottom trawling on seamounts in the South Pacific high seas, projecting disappearing fish and destroyed coral onto a silo on Auckland’s waterfront to highlight the destruction caused by the fishing method.

Environmentalists say today’s decision to reduce an orange roughy catch limit is simply the ‘bare minimum’ for the troubled fishery and are calling on the government to ban bottom trawling on seamounts