08-06-2005: NW Challenger Plateau Tasman Sea: Greenpeace activists use wire cables to tie the trawl doors together on the bottom trawler Ocean Reward.

12-06-2005, West Norfolk Ridge, Tasman Sea: Crew on New Zealand bottom trawler Waipori wrestle with a large piece of 400 year old Paragorgia coral hauled up from the deep-sea.

08-06-2005: NW Challenger Plateau Tasman Sea: Greenpeace activists delay the setting of deep sea bottom trawl gear aboard the vessel Ocean Reward

TASMAN SEA: Crew from the Rainbow Warrior collect bycatch thrown overboard in the wake of a bottom trawler in the Tasman Sea.

Nelson 30-July-2006: Two Greenpeace activists aboard Belize flagged Chinese bottom trawler Chang Xing in Port of Nelson, New Zealand. The two activists along with one other attached to the mooring line stopped the vessel from leaving port.

Nelson 30-July-2006: Greenpeace activists block the trawl ramp of Belize flagged Chinese bottom trawler Chang Xing in Port Nelson, New Zealand. Two other activists climbed the mast and along with one other attached to the mooring line stopped the...

Nelson 30-July-2006: Two Greenpeace activists aboard Belize flagged Chinese bottom trawler Chang Xing in Port Nelson, New Zealand. The two activists along with one other attached to the mooring line stopped the vessel from leaving port.

WELLINGTON: Greenpeace's King Neptune protests out side the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council meeting. Greenpeace activists delivered a trespass notice to keep bottom trawlers out of the ocean.

TASMAN SEA: A haul of orange roughy is in a bottom trawl net.