by frog
Green MP Metiria Turei addresses the action in front of parliament, hosted by the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society on Wednesday. As usual, the government has got it wrong about the fishing industry’s kill quota, and yet another threatened species edges closer to extinction. Former Minister Steve Chadwick tried to make out that Labour’s record was good, but Metiria made it clear that Labour’s policy with the sea lions was little better.
Published in Environment & Resource Management | Video by frog on Fri, March 6th, 2009
Tags: environement, forest & bird, Metiria Turei, sea lion
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Good to see the left supporting the environmental movement (well done Mets).
“Department of Conservation researchers on New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic islands where the sea lions breed have recorded a 31% fall in the number of NZ sea lion pups born this season, heightening fears about the impact of by-catch deaths.
Forest & Bird marine advocate Kirstie Knowles says 95 sea lion deaths are far too many and pose a serious threat to the sea lion population’s ability to recover.
“There is no reason why a commercial fishery should be allowed to kill significant numbers of a protected, endemic marine mammal. A kill quota close to zero is the only level that will provide a realistic level of protection – this is achievable if the industry agrees to incremental reductions in the kill quota of 20% each year towards that target.”
Once found right around the mainland New Zealand coastline, NZ sea lions now breed in just a few colonies in the sub-Antarctic islands, where they are highly vulnerable to disease epidemics and genetic “bottle-necks”.”
http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/what-we-do/publications/media-releases/sea-lions-gather-parliament-plead-their-lives
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Good work Met, keep hammering the sods, 95 sea lion deaths is simply obscene.
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