Press Release – Coromandel Scallop Restoration Programme A new report shows some scallop beds off the Coromandel coast are unlikely to recover from their current depleted state, and locals are concerned that ongoing dredging will threaten the future of the delicacy. The report summarises a dive survey commissioned …
A new report shows some scallop beds off the Coromandel coast are unlikely to recover from their current depleted state, and locals are concerned that ongoing dredging will threaten the future of the delicacy.
The report summarises a dive survey commissioned by the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council in 2020. In some areas of Opito Bay divers had to swim on average 26m2 to find a single legal size scallop.
Press Release – Coromandel Scallop Restoration Programme A new report shows some scallop beds off the Coromandel coast are unlikely to recover from their current depleted state, and locals are concerned that ongoing dredging will threaten the future of the delicacy. The report summarises a dive survey commissioned …
A new report shows some scallop beds off the Coromandel coast are unlikely to recover from their current depleted state, and locals are concerned that ongoing dredging will threaten the future of the delicacy.
The report summarises a dive survey commissioned by the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council in 2020. In some areas of Opito Bay divers had to swim on average 26m2 to find a single legal size scallop.
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If the controversial Netflix documentary Seaspiracy is to be believed, we should all give up eating fish now. He s interviewed scientists, activists and conservationists to reach a conclusion that our oceans are in huge trouble, and the commercial fishing industry is largely to blame. Today,
The Detail looks at the state of New Zealand fisheries with NIWA s chief scientist for fisheries Dr Richard O Driscoll, and does some fact checking on the
Seaspiracy claims. “They drew a conclusion which was simple and wrong,” says O Driscoll.
Seaspiracy has raised global awareness of the state of the oceans, but it is unfortunate, he says, that it took a tabloid programme – he refuses to call it a documentary – that oversimplifies the issues, and where people make extreme claims, to get the conversation started.
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