The DSCC’s Comment on Draft Cumulative Bottom Fishery Impact Assessment for Australian and New Zealand Bottom Fisheries in the SPRFMO Convention Area, 2023
Available in English
22 August, 2023
7 February, 2023
DSCC priorities for SPRFMO 2023 annual meeting and calls to action for SPRMO members.
Available in English
14 January, 2023
Joint eNGO Briefing Paper for the 11th Meeting of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation from 13-17 February 2023
15 March, 2022
SUBMISSION TO SPRFMO Bottom Fishing Intersessional Working Group Participant Questionnaire
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23 December, 2021
Briefing Paper for the 9th Meeting of the Compliance and Technical Commission and the 10th Meeting of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization
Online from 19 – 22, 24 – 28 January 2022
2 September, 2021
Papers submitted
- Watling and Auster (2021). Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Communities, and Indicator Species: Confusing Concepts for Conservation of Seamounts
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- Currie and Weeber (2021) The Precautionary Approach and Ecosystem Approach in the context of Prevention of Significant Adverse Impacts on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
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2 August, 2021
Authors: Katrina Goddard, Karli Thomas, Barry Weeber
Together with Greenpeace Aotearoa, WWF-NZ, Forest and Bird, LegaSea, New Zealand Sport Fishing Council, Our Seas Our Future, and Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand (ECO), the DSCC is calling on the New Zealand government to ban bottom trawling on seamounts.
Continue reading REPORT: Save deep sea corals- ban bottom trawling on seamounts
16 April, 2021
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition’s (DSCC) 2020 Report informs on Fisheries, Deep Seabed Mining and Ocean Governance.
- Available in English.
24 March, 2021
Seamounts are fragile and biologically diverse marine ecosystems that are vulnerable to deep-sea fisheries activities and, increasingly, other human impacts.
This briefing examines the current state of seamount science and protection. It summarizes who continues to fish in these unique habitats and presents a case for urgent and intensified political action to protect these biodiversity hotspots.
- Available in English.
21 January, 2021
The 9th Meeting of the SPRFMO Commission and 8th Compliance and Technical Committee Meeting are to be held remotely from 21 January-3 February 2021.
Briefing Paper
Interventions: