Public Address | Cafe | Envirologue: Making a Killing – New Zealand Sea Lions on the Brink

Roger Grace

Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:40:14 +1200

I understand that most of the trawlers involved are foreign chartered vessels. Surely that should make it easy to change to jigging coz there must be hundreds of squid jigging ships available overseas for charter. No need to convert NZ boats to jiggers for the short squid season. And jigging…

Moz

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:22:18 +1200

So fishing boats are taking food from the mouths of starving sea lion babies. Hooray, we have an economy!

The sea lion population at the Auckland Islands appears to be in freefall

Isn't this the only measure that counts? People can waffle about anti-kill devices and fishery health, but what…

Dave Hansford

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:10:11 +1200

It's true that successive Labour Governments also struggled with this issue. I was writing stories about this back in 2005, and many of the central themes still persist. Pete Hodgson and Jim Anderton both expressed a wish to resolve this, but feared litigation from the industry. Of course, that could…

Dave Hansford

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:49:38 +1200

Thanks Anne: a slip of the fingers...

Graham Dunster

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:50:40 +1200

Business as usual for the neo-liberal multiparty establishment. The list of sins seems to grow longer by the day.

Anne M

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:27:41 +1200

That autopsy report is from 2001/2002, not 2012.

Public Address

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:27:41 +1200

Discussion from blog post.