Source: Greenpeace
Author: Ellie Hooper
Greenpeace activists highlighted the critical need to ban bottom trawling on seamounts, confronting Talley’s ship the Amaltal Explorer at sea.
A small team of activists deployed banners from an inflatable boat in the port of Dunedin calling for an end to bottom trawling on seamounts.
New Zealanders are sick of seeing ocean ruin at the hands of the commercial fishing industry. We’re here today to remind Talley’s that their social license for this practice is gone, just like the ancient coral forests they destroy with their nets.
Jessica Desmond, Greenpeace Aotearoa
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