So excited to finally share with everyone this short documentary on the Greenpeace Seamounts expedition from earlier in the year. 🪸

The team faced some real highs and lows witnessing both the destruction and the wonder of deep seamount ecosystems in the Tasman Sea. 🌊

These precious places need to be protected from destructive bottom trawling. Have a look!

Uncovering the secrets of the deep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7EqH5jGy8w

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries #greenpeace

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Listen to Veronica Rotman, a marine scientist from New Zealand, that was recently at the Oceans conference (UNOC) and her views on ocean protection, the Global Ocean Treaty, New Zealand's role in bottom trawling and what needs to be done about it all.
🌊 🐳

She is 100% on point! 🔥
Excellent listening for ocean lovers in Aotearoa. 💙

The state of New Zealand's oceans https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019004100/the-state-of-new-zealand-s-oceans

#BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries #BBNJ #HighSeasTreaty #GlobalOceanTreaty

We were in Wellington earlier this week, sending a message to the government and industry about the indiscriminate destruction caused by bottom trawling. 🪸🌊

We also talked to the people of Wellington, about the ocean and the need for protection.

Have a look!

What do Wellingtonians think about bottom trawling?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b51-FiEDiXo

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

Our press release with all the details is out now. 🪸🌊

“Bottom trawling kills” message projected onto downtown Wellington building as fisheries meeting starts
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/bottom-trawling-kills-message-projected-onto-downtown-wellington-building-as-fisheries-meeting-starts/

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries #greenpeace

Here's a closer look at the video we projected on the building's wall.

#BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #greenpeace #oceans

Hello from Wellington! 🌬️

As the international body for managing South Pacific high seas fisheries (SPRFMO) meets in the capital, we are sending a clear message:

Stop Bottom Trawling. 🌊

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #SPRFMO #greenpeace

It's quite funny seeing Talley's adjacent people fund raise out of Greenpeace banners from our previous action. In the end it is just more people seeing our messaging.

Also, I painted those banners. So I guess that now makes me an artist with commercially auctioned art? 🧑‍🎨

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/antiques-collectables/flags/listing/5500853613

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling

New Zealand government currently doing less to protect Māui dolphins than... checks notes the United States of America.
😓🐬

US court gives Māui dolphin charity hope in fight over seafood ban
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/29/us-court-gives-maui-dolphin-charity-hope-in-fight-over-seafood-ban/

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

There is ample and growing evidence of the harm #bottomTrawling causes in the ocean. Primarily to biodiversity but also to the oceans capacity to regulate climate. It is absolutely indefensible to continue this destructive, reckless practice in the middle of an ecological crisis. 🌊

"Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that is notoriously destructive to seafloor ecosystems. Now there’s growing evidence that it might unleash planet-warming carbon"

A Controversial Fishing Method May Dredge Up a Climate Time Bomb
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bottom-trawling-could-unleash-carbon-dioxide-worsening-global-warming/

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

Watch our video! 🌊🌏

Greenpeace activists occupy Talley's bottom trawler
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eh2SpVN3uFg

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

Featured in the local Nelson newsletter too.
Unfortunately a Substack link, apologies.

https://open.substack.com/pub/climatemattersnz/p/climate-matters-138

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

It's quite funny when Talley’s, or any of the fishing companies, act all concerned about the health and safety of the people involved in peaceful protest, and try to paint Greenpeace's actions as too reckless or risky.

Greenpeace has a 50 year track record of safely taking direct action in Aotearoa, and we're happy to compare it to that of any of the companies involved in industrial fishing, any day.

We can then see who looks after people (never mind the planet) with actual data to back claims up.

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #fisheries

Always remember that any disruption activists cause is (fortunately or not) always going to be temporary.

But the damage caused in the delicate ecosystems deep below the surface of the ocean is permanent, or very nearly so. 🪸

We are proud of, and stand by, the courageous activists putting their bodies on the line to defend the ocean we all depend on. 🌊✊🏽

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling

Greenpeace activists stop Talley’s trawler from leaving Nelson port, branding it an ‘ocean killer'
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/greenpeace-activists-stop-talleys-trawler-from-leaving-nelson-port-branding-it-an-ocean-killer/

#greenpeace #directAction #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #Oceans #fisheries

The calls for protection of the collapsing Orange Roughy fishery keep coming.

Despite the minister and his industry influence, the people really want the ocean to be better protected and allowed to thrive. 🐟 🌊

Orange roughy must be taken off the menu
https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/orange-roughy-must-be-taken-menu

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

A shark and dolphin walk into a fishing industry conference…

We went to the annual Seafood NZ Conference last week to deliver a strong message to the fishing industry and the government - we need more ocean protection.

With the help of Sharon the Shark and Hāna Hector, the dolphin who came along with our friends from Dolphin Defenders, we met attendees from the fishing industry at the Seafood NZ Conference.

The response was mixed. Hāna even got kicked out of the conference!

🐬🦈

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans#NZPol #fisheries#CamerasOnBoats

A shark and dolphin walk into a fishing industry conference…

We went to the annual Seafood NZ Conference last week to deliver a strong message to the fishing industry and the government - we need more ocean protection.

With the help of Sharon the Shark and Hāna Hector, the dolphin who came along with our friends from Dolphin Defenders, we met attendees from the fishing industry at the Seafood NZ Conference.

The response was mixed. Hāna even got kicked out of the conference!

🐬🦈

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans#NZPol #fisheries#CamerasOnBoats

Hōiho are at breaking point. The fishing industry is killing the ocean and it needs to stop. 🐧

She was the last: Penguin starvation crisis sparks call for emergency fishing ban | The Post
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360780478/she-was-last-penguin-starvation-crisis-sparks-call-emergency-fishing-ban

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries#NZPol

Now that we're awake anyway, check out the awesome work of Heal the Hauraki.

This episode is about the amazing people doing the mahi to restore ecosystems in Tīkapa Moana Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.

AKA some of the witches with green liquid that Shane Jones is so scared of.
I think it is quite positive, inspiring and uplifting.

Heal the Hauraki - Episode 2 - "TANGATA (PEOPLE)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t9eppCixWfs

#Aotearoa #documentary #ProtectTheOceans #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #HaurakiGulf #TikapaMoana

Deadline for submissions on the collapsing Orange Roughy fishery ORH3B is today at 5 pm. 🐟

This is your chance to tell the government to stop bottom trawling!

https://mastodon.nz/@pezmico/114900758064767756

#ProtectTheOcean#NZPol #BanBottomTrawling