June 8, 2005

The Mari­time Uni­on of New Zea­l­and is sup­port­ing the dir­ect action by Green­peace act­iv­ists on the Rain­bow War­ri­or against bot­tom trawl­ing fish­ing ves­sels in the Tas­man Sea.

Mari­time Uni­on Gen­er­al Sec­ret­ary Tre­vor Han­son says it has become obvi­ous that over­fish­ing and bad prac­tices such as bot­tom trawl­ing were wreck­ing the envir­on­ment, and would also des­troy the industry that depends on the envir­on­ment.