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Environmentalists say today\u2019s decision to reduce an orange roughy catch limit is simply the \u2018bare minimum\u2019 for the troubled fishery and are calling on the government to ban bottom trawling on seamounts so that populations of the deep sea fish can rebuild.

Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has decided to cut the total catch limit for a declining orange roughy stock in the Tasman Sea by 1,221 tonnes (57%). But the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) points out the modelling used to inform the Minister’s decision shows the stock is already below the level we\u2019ve agreed to internationally (1) and none of the options put to the Minister by his officials would see any recovery in the next five years. (2)
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The decision was gazetted on Friday<\/a> and an announcement is expected today, ahead of the October 1 start of the fishing year.

DSCC spokesperson Karli Thomas<\/strong> says the cut is only just enough to stop the decline of a fishery that\u2019s already in a dire state and does nothing to protect the seamounts that orange roughy – and other deep sea creatures like corals and sponges – rely on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe orange roughy fishery is one of the worst in Aotearoa, responsible for more than half the destruction of protected deep-sea corals. The government\u2019s decision today leaves the fish itself – which can live for over 200 years – in serious trouble,\u201d says Thomas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe Minister has chosen to do the bare minimum: just enough to stop the decline, not enough to allow the stock to recover, and nothing at all to address the huge damage caused by bottom trawling on seamounts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The stock assessment is based on survey data more than a decade old (2013) despite more recent stock surveys being carried out in 2018 and 2023. If the recent data is included, the stock could already be as low as 16% of its original population size.

Greenpeace oceans campaigner Juan Parada <\/strong>says: <\/strong>\u201cIf the New Zealand fishing industry had stopped bottom trawling seamounts decades ago, the orange roughy fishery would not be in the diminished state it is today. Trawling the very seamounts where orange roughy go to breed and rebuild their numbers is a reckless way to run a fishery.

\u201cNew Zealand is the only country still bottom trawling in the South Pacific high seas, and that\u2019s embarrassing. New Zealand should be moving away from this kind of archaic practice that does so much damage to ocean life,\u201d says Parada.

This fishery is under shared management with the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO), which has a management target of keeping this orange roughy population at or above 40% of its original level over the next five years. It\u2019s already below that level, and Minister Jones is allowing catches that will prevent any recovery in that timeframe.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe Minister is out of touch with New Zealanders on this one, close to 100,000 people have signed a joint petition calling for trawling on seamounts to end\u201d said Parada from Greenpeace Aotearoa.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time the government listened and protected biodiversity hot spots like seamounts so the ocean and orange roughy can recover.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

SPRFMO starts its annual scientific committee meeting today in Lima, Peru. New Zealand\u2019s orange roughy stock assessment is on the agenda, and the committee will advise on how much, if any, orange roughy can be taken from the part of this population in international waters. That will ultimately be decided at the SPRFMO annual meeting in February 2025. New Zealand is the only country still bottom trawling in the SPRFMO area.

“Eyes at this international meeting are going to be on New Zealand, which is not only trying to walk back on science – discussed and agreed last year – that would have seen additional areas closed to bottom trawling to protect deep-sea life, it’s also going to have to explain a fishery in decline and a catch limit too high for it to recover,” concluded Thomas, from the DSCC.

Notes<\/strong>
(1)\u00a0 Under the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) Conservation and Management Measure CMM 03a-2023<\/a>, which specifies that this Tasman Sea stock will be managed at or above 40% of its original biomass for the next five years.
(2) Table 1 of the MPI discussion document on ORH 7A<\/a> set out the modelled population level under the four options under consideration. Only one option was predicted to halt the decline in the stock, none of the options were predicted to allow any stock recovery in the next five years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPETITION: Ban bottom trawling on seamounts\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Join the call to demand that the NZ Govt bans bottom trawling on seamounts and similar deep sea features, and stop issuing permits for bottom trawling in international waters.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t \n Take Action\n <\/a>\n \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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