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European Community, South Korea and Russia sink international effort to protect South Pacific from high seas bottom trawling
10 November 2006 The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition has condemned northern fishing nations, the European Community, South Korea, and Russia for blocking measures which would have protected deep-sea life in the South Pacific. More

Canada - stop blocking progress on a halt to high seas bottom trawling
	30 October 2006 Greenpeace Australia Pacific Campaigns Director, Danny Kennedy today delivered a letter to the Canadian Consular-General in Sydney urging him to make representations to the Canadian Prime Minister to reconsider the Canadian position on high seas bottom trawling. More

Australian support for protection of deep sea life from high seas bottom trawling
	22 September 2006 The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition has welcomed today's announcement by the Australian Government that it will support interim measures at this year's United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to stop unregulated destructive fishing practices such as bottom trawling on the high seas. More

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Bottom trawling in Parliament
What’s being said in Parliament about the need for a global moratorium on high seas bottom trawling
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	Download the following pdfs: • Greenpeace calls on Canada to stop blocking progress on a halt to high seas bottom trawling • Australian Senate supports Government push on bottom trawling • Australian support for protection of deep sea life from high seas bottom trawling • DSCC response to UN report of high seas protection: Sparse, ineffective, woefully inadequate - now will you take action? 15 July 2006 • Trawl ban a drop in the ocean, 6 July 2006 • While Campbell tries to save the whales, Abetz fails to protect deep sea ecosystems, 19 June 2006 • Australia fails to reach finals on deep sea protection, 8 June 2006 • Deep sea gets billboard support, 1 June 2006 Archives

	• Greenpeace Releases Map that shows Trawling Closure Areas Unscientific, Greenpeace, 16 August 2006 • Seamounts and deep sea creatures at risk from bottom trawling for another year, 29 November 2005, Greenpeace media release Archives

Photographs taken by fisheries observers onboard New Zealand vessels in 2004 and 2005, released to Greenpeace by New Zealand's Ministry of Fisheries.
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Stop the clocks!
Ask the ministers of key countries to support a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling and stop the clock on deep sea destruction.

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Press
• Australia spearheads seabed trawling ban, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 October 2006
• UN considers deep sea trawling ban, The Australian, 4 October 2006
• Campbell considers orange roughy fishing ban, 19 May 2006, ABC News
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• Minister considers listing Orange Roughy as endangered, Media release from Senator Campbell

Audio
• Perspective ABC Radio National, High Seas Bottom Trawling, 22 August 2006
• Dateline, SBS TV, Dr Steve O'Shea, Giant Squid and Bottom Trawling, 8 March 2006
• The Hack – Triple JJJ interview with Professor Callum Roberts, 1 November 2005 (mp3)
• Deep Sea Threats, ABC Radio National interview with Professor Callum Roberts, 18 October 2005
• Greenpeace Trawling Campaign, ABC Radio National, 9 June 2005

Video
• An overview of deep sea life and the destruction caused by deep sea bottom trawling, including footage gathered by Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in the Tasman Sea in 2004 and 2005. Realplayer / Quicktime

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