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New Zealand Implements Temporary Seamount Closures Amid Orange Roughy Population Decline

5 Jun 2026 4:46 p.m. · Source: Greenpeace Aotearoa

New Zealand's government has announced temporary seamount closures in the Chatham Rise orange roughy fishery due to plummeting fish numbers. Environmentalists, however, deem the six-week annual ban on bottom trawling insufficient, advocating for permanent protection of these vital habitats.

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