7 Mar 2019

Deep sea destruction

From The Panel, 4:38 pm on 7 March 2019

New research highlights the damage the fishing industry is doing by bottom trawling. The researchers which are led by NIWA say the destructrion of the seabed wildlife is akin to destruction of the kauri fotrests - and that it looks to be irreversible. Journalist Michael Field wrote a book a few years back called The Catch. He gives his take on this latest research.