SPRFMO

22 February, 2023

Media Release

Wednesday 22 February

The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) has given the green light to destroying 30% of vulnerable deep-water corals and sponges and failed to protect hotspots for life in the deep. 

Continue reading SOUTH PACIFIC FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION MEETING SEA LIFE  LEAVES DOOR OPEN TO DESTRUCTION OF 30% OF DEEP SEA MARINE LIFE 

7 February, 2023

MEDIA RELEASE

For release 7.2.22

As the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) begins its 11th Annual Commission Meeting, held in Manta, Ecuador from 7th February, the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) calls for the phasing out of bottom trawl fishing  on seamounts on the high seas by December 2023.

Continue reading SPRFMO Member States have unique opportunity to end destructive deep-sea bottom trawling and commit to ocean protection

29 September, 2020

Source: Stuff.co.nz
Author: Andrea Vance

Vast fishing nets have hauled up 29 species of delicate coral from the still, dark depths of New Zealand’s oceans.

And conservationists are warning that the Government has abandoned protection of the sea bed in favour of expanding bottom trawling.

Continue reading Trawl gear damages fragile coral reefs, so why is the Government sanctioning more hauls?

30 January, 2013

The DSCC welcomes the approach towards transparency that SPRFMO negotiations have taken to date, both within the meetings and by publicising and reviewing impact assessments, and informed them that they look forward to a continuance of transparency now that the Convention is in force. 

Continue reading DSCC urges South Pacific RFMO to make measures consistent with bottom fishing resolutions