Day: 8 June 2005

Maritime Union backs Greenpeace protest action against bottom trawling

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.