Blobfish, once dubbed 'world's ugliest animal,' named fish of the year in New Zealand
Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish – scientific name Psychrolutes marcidus – has been named New Zealand's ...
ssir.org9 年
Trawling for Trash
The French government, supported by the European Union Fisheries Fund, pays for the fishermen’s time. Europe’s plastics industry provides special debris-collecting trawl nets (which cost from $23,000 ...
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New Zealand blocks tighter trawling rules at South Pacific fisheries meeting
Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian and Schmidt Ocean Institute via Deep Sea Conservation Coalition. Trawling in the South Pacific has been on the decline for the past two decades. New Zealand is the ...