3/19/2018
The Ministry for Primary Industries is looking into an accidental capture and subsequent death of five Hector's dolphins in a commercial set net off Banks Peninsula last month. Set netting is permitted in the area where the incident occurred and the event was reported to MPI by the fisher. The Ministry's ...
The deaths of five endangered Hector's dolphins in a South Island fishing accident have prompted the government to speed up its plans to protect the animal. The dolphins were trapped in a commercial net north of the Banks Peninsula, near Christchurch, last month. Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage ...
The death of five Hector's dolphins in a commercial set net off Banks Peninsula, is being investigated. The Ministry for Primary Industries says it is looking into an accidental capture and subsequent death of the dolphins. Set netting is permitted in the area where the incident occurred and the event was ...
By-catch deaths of five Hector's dolphins in fishing nets off the Canterbury coast has prompted an order to fast-track work on a new protection plan for the nationally endangered species. The five dolpins were trapped in a commercial set net about six nautical miles north of Banks Peninsula on February ...
Work to protect the nationally endangered Hector's dolphin is being accelerated after five were killed in fishing nets last month. Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash said the dolphins were trapped in a commercial set net about six nautical miles north of Banks Peninsula on February 17. The fishermen involved ...
Five Hector's dolphins have been killed after they were trapped in a commercial set net off the Banks Peninsula in February. There's believed to be only about 10,000 Hector's dolphins left in the wild. As a result of the drownings, the Government will review the use of set nets, with an eye toward possibly ...
The dolphins were trapped in a commercial set net about six nautical miles north of Banks Peninsula on 17 February. The fisherman ... “The deaths of these dolphins is distressing,” Mr Nash said. ... Official records show 188 Hector's and Maui dolphin are known to have been killed in set nets since 1973.