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Warning: This piece contains spoilers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

David Attenborough\u2019s new movie Ocean<\/em> hit cinemas last week, its release coinciding with the 99th birthday of the revered broadcaster and conservationist. <\/p>\n\n

The message he leaves us with is this: \u201cAfter living for nearly a hundred years on this planet, I now understand that the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

A rallying cry to protect our blue planet, Ocean<\/em> shines a light on how industrial fishing methods like bottom trawling have been sucking the life out of the sea for decades. <\/p>\n\n

Read: What is bottom trawling?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n

It delivers Attenborough\u2019s strongest message to date, urging us to seize the opportunity available this year to protect the ocean, if we\u2019re to have any hope of a habitable life on Earth.

In never-before-seen footage, we see industrial bottom trawlers smash their way across the seafloor, tearing up everything in their path. Sediment is stirred, scallop beds destroyed, and marine life races to escape nets that bulldoze on, unabated. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe idea of bulldozing a rainforest causes outrage, yet we do the same underwater every day,\u201d he says. Moments later, we\u2019re served the statistic that an area the size of the Amazon is bottom trawled every year on a global scale.<\/p>\n\n

Shocking as it is, we have long known about bottom trawling\u2019s impact on the ocean. Seven centuries ago, in 1367, fishermen in Britain <\/a>called for a ban on bottom trawling for fear of the damage it was causing. Closer to home, a 1901 article in the New Zealand Times<\/a> raised the issue of the \u201cevils of trawling\u201d in the Hauraki Gulf.<\/p>\n\n

In March, we witnessed intensively trawled areas ourselves, out on the Seamounts Expedition in the Tasman Sea.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Scientists monitor the livefeed from the DropCam. In March 2025, Greenpeace Aotearoa set off on a Seamounts Expedition with a team of technicians and scientists to explore seamounts in the Tasman Sea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Ocean<\/em> exposes bottom trawling – does trawling happen in New Zealand?<\/h2>\n\n

The New Zealand commercial fishing industry is shockingly committed to bottom trawling<\/a> – a hugely destructive and indiscriminate fishing method. <\/p>\n\n

Brought here during the violence of colonisation, this type of fishing is a far cry from the methods used in Te ao M\u0101ori, that worked in harmony with the ocean. It is a method that was imposed on Aotearoa and one that is still doing a huge degree of damage.<\/p>\n\n

After decades of pleas, the industry has refused to transition away from it.<\/p>\n\n

New Zealand bottom trawlers target waters around the country – from the relative shallows of the Hauraki Gulf<\/a> to the deep sea of the Chatham Rise – but they are also the last fleet to bottom trawl the High Seas of the South Pacific.<\/p>\n\n

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Crewman on the New Zealand bottom trawler, Waipori, dump a large piece of Paragorgia coral dredged from the deep sea in their net.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Out here in the deep, fishers often target seamounts <\/a>and other features that rise from the seabed – which create the perfect conditions for coral and sponge gardens to grow. These habitats are slow to grow (some corals in New Zealand waters have been aged at thousands of years old), and they are incredibly fragile, making them particularly vulnerable to bottom contact fishing, which wipe them out in a handful of trawls.<\/p>\n\n

These habitats are targeted because they are wildlife hotpots – fish go there to spawn and aggregate, even whales are known to use them for navigation and feeding.<\/p>\n\n

Read: 5 things you need to know about seamounts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n

Why is destructive bottom trawling allowed to continue on seamounts?<\/h2>\n\n

As the David Attenborough film points out, it\u2019s not that this is happening in a vacuum, but that this type of fishing is often encouraged or supported by governments. <\/p>\n\n

For New Zealand\u2019s part, we have seen our government block moves<\/a> to protect vulnerable habitats in the High Seas from trawling on multiple occasions. That\u2019s despite other countries supporting protection. Indeed, New Zealand government officials have often worked more in favour of commercial fishing interests<\/a> on the international stage, and against the best interests of the ocean.<\/p>\n\n

No word needs to be uttered of the commercial fishing donations <\/a>to the current Ocean and Fisheries Minister, Shane Jones, which has surely had no impact on his decisions around this.<\/p>\n\n

But people overwhelmingly want protection. 73% of New Zealanders polled last year said they supported bottom trawling being removed <\/a>from the High Seas.  If you agree with them after all that you\u2019ve seen and read, please sign the petition to stop this.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t

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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\n

Transition is as possible as it is necessary, but it cannot happen if the industry and the government continue to bury their heads in the sand about the damage wrought by this fishing method.<\/p>\n\n

After watching Ocean<\/em>, what can I do to help?<\/h2>\n\n

Greenpeace and allies have been running campaigns to restrict bottom trawling for decades. <\/p>\n\n

If the \u201cocean is our planet\u2019s life support system, and our greatest ally against climate catastrophe,\u201d then it is in our best interests to keep it healthy and full. Evidence shows that when the ocean is full of life, it is more resilient in the face of climate impacts. Fish, coral and biodiversity are all important in the careful balance of this system, and bottom trawling undermines this baseline.<\/p>\n\n

To help, you can sign the petition<\/a> that\u2019s calling for this damaging method to be stopped in the places it does the most harm, or share this blog to spread the word.<\/p>\n\n

Petition: Ban bottom trawling<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Wave surge constantly sweeping through beds of seaweed where a Tristan Rock Lobster (Jasus tristani) clings to an underwater peak of Vema, circled by shoals of Yellowtail Amberjacks. These lobsters were almost fished to extinction on Mount Vema seamount <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

How the Global Ocean Treaty can protect the ocean<\/h2>\n\n

For years, hundreds of scientists and civil society organisations have been urging for 30% of the global ocean to be highly protected<\/a> for this very reason. We know that when areas of the ocean are placed off limits – into sanctuaries, areas protected from human activities – they can not only recover, but thrive. <\/p>\n\n

The newly agreed Global Oceans Treaty<\/a> gives us the mechanism to create these protected areas, but we have to act urgently to make this happen, and in doing so resist the industries that will stop at nothing to preserve the status quo.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cThis could be the moment of change. Nearly every country on Earth has just agreed, on paper, to achieve this bare minimum and protect a third of the ocean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, we now face the challenge of making it happen.\u201d <\/p>\n– David Attenborough <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

Hope: What we can learn from the whales <\/h2>\n\n

\u201cThe ocean can recover faster than we had ever imagined,\u201d says Attenborough, and details the example of how whale populations rebounded after commercial whaling was largely banned in 1986. This saw blue whales, for example, recover from being down to just 1% of their original numbers, back to around 10% today.  <\/p>\n\n

It is a welcome success story, and one we should take heed of. Recovery is absolutely possible, but it does require decisive action and change.<\/p>\n\n

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The pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) break the surface in the waters west of Maputo, Mozambique, 20th September 2012. GPS S 26 13′ 02′, E 038 11′ 20 250 miles west of Maputo, Mozambique. Photo: Paul Hilton \/ Greenpeace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The current system of ocean governance has failed. But the Global Ocean Treaty gives us hope, and a once in a generation opportunity. Creating protected areas in the High Seas – areas that outlaw multiple threats – will be our best bet in turning the tide on the ocean crisis. This opportunity lies at our feet.<\/p>\n\n

An ocean sanctuary in The Tasman Sea<\/h2>\n\n

The Tasman Sea, just off our coast between Aotearoa and Australia, is high on the list for one of the world\u2019s very first protected areas in these international waters. A volcanic lost world, full of ancient undersea mountains, slow-growing coral, fish and a hotspot for seabirds – this is a place worth protecting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops) in the deep blue waters, 600 metres deep and located 15 kilometres off Lord Howe Island. The South Tasman Sea and Lord Howe Rise are two linked sites in the South Pacific between Australia and Aotearoa\u2019s exclusive economic zones which form one of Greenpeace\u2019s priority areas for the first high seas ocean sanctuaries under the new Global Ocean Treaty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The need for protection is urgent. Industrial scale fishing takes place in this area, including New Zealand bottom trawlers. Last year, NZ trawler The Tasman Viking pulled up 37kg of coral in the Lord Howe Rise area<\/a>, something Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones responded to by saying he wants trawlers to be able to pull up more coral<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

We cannot protect this place by words alone, and that’s why in March, Greenpeace Aotearoa undertook an expedition<\/a> to document the life found in the Tasman, as well as the destruction caused<\/a> at the hands of bottom trawlers. Results from this research will be used to help protect ocean life in the Tasman Sea.<\/p>\n\n

As we have for decades, Greenpeace will continue to campaign for protection from industrial scale fishing, and call on the government to act, but we need you with us.<\/p>\n\n

If you watched Ocean, <\/em>and want to take action, please sign the petition<\/a>. Or click here for other ways to get involved<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

As Attenborough puts it – \u201cIf we save the sea, we save our world.\u201d <\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t

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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\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\n

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