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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 01:25 PM
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'Destructive fishing' ban for NZ
(BBC News)
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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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4735474.stm
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