'Destructive fishing' ban for NZ [View All]

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 11:48 GMT

'Destructive fishing' ban for NZ
By Mic Dover
Wellington

One-third of New Zealand's offshore waters is going to be declared off-limits to bottom-trawlers.

The announcement was made in Wellington at the end of a fisheries conference attended by delegates
from 20 nations.

If the decision is followed through, it would result in the world's largest total closure
to bottom-trawl fishing within an Exclusive Economic Zone, EEC.

Conservation groups say bottom-trawling is the most destructive type of fishing undertaken
in the world's oceans today.

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