Source: Stuff New Zealand
Author: Andrea Vance
The Government has pulled out of plans to restrict deep sea trawling that would have protected orange roughy.
Continue reading Government drops plan to restrict deep sea trawling, protect orange roughy
Source: New Zealand Herald
Author: New Zealand Herald Editorial
The news that Niwa scientists are going to make a proper investigation of the environmental impact of seabed mining will be welcomed by both sides of this debate. New Zealand sits atop a large continental shelf stretching to the limits of its exclusive economic zone and apart from drilling for oil and gas we have barely scratched the surface of its potential mineral resources.
Continue reading Editorial: Niwa’s study of seabed mining risks will be useful – New Zealand Herald
Source: New Zealand Herald
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Kiwi scientists investigating the impacts of controversial seabed mining are about to simulate the effects themselves, in one of the most challenging underwater experiments Niwa has ever attempted.
Continue reading Scientists to simulate controversial seabed mining effects
Source: New Zealand Herald
Author: Jamie Morton
Deep below the ocean, several hundred kilometres northeast of New Zealand, lies the world’s most hydrothermally active volcano.
Continue reading Scientists set to drill into huge underwater volcano
Source: Radio New Zealand
An application to mine millions of tonnes of iron sand off South Taranaki has been approved by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in a split decision.
Source: NZ Herald
Author: Jamie Morton
A researcher who has uncovered new insights into New Zealand’s ocean environment says seafloor communities need better protection against any future deep-sea mining.
Source: Taranaki Daily News, via Papua New Guinea Mine Watch
Author: Andrew Owen
The group fighting plans to mine millions of tonnes of sand off the South Taranaki coast is claiming record numbers of people have backed its campaign.
Continue reading NZ Anti-seabed mining group claims record level of support
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition today slammed a decision by the London-based Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to certify the New Zealand deep-water bottom trawl fishery for orange roughy as “sustainable” and “well managed”. MSC describes its certified fish as “responsibly caught”.
Continue reading Marine Stewardship Council Certifies Destructive Deep Sea Fishery
Source: Deep Sea Mining Campaign
PAPUA NEW GUINEA | NGOs and civil society in Papua New Guinea demand that the PNG government and Nautilus Minerals make public key documents relating to the licensing of the Solwara 1 deep sea mining project. This follows a recent decision from the New Zealand Environment Court calling for transparency of seabed mining.
Continue reading Public Right to be Informed on Experimental Seabed Mining
MSC Certification hearing to decide future of deep sea orange roughy caught through damaging deep sea bottom trawling
On Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th October, at the offices of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in London, the future of vulnerable corals in the South Pacific ocean and the deep dwelling, slow growing orange roughy will be decided.
Continue reading Bottom-Trawled Fish Could Be Labelled For ‘Sustainable’ Consumption
