9 Nov 2020

Questions over benefits of foreign fishing crews

From Morning Report, 8:40 am on 9 November 2020

A fisheries expert is asking whether the economic benefit New Zealand receives from having overseas crew here is worth the risk they pose due to Covid-19.

The Ministry of Health is continuing to investigate how two health workers managed to catch the virus from infected foreign fishers at the Sudima Hotel, leading to the first community outbreak in Christchurch in four months.

Here's RNZ fisheries reporter Conan Young.