A new Greenpeace protest that has involved painting on trawling vessels while at sea has drawn criticism from one of the targeted companies, which claims the environmental organization’s activities are unsafe and risky.
Members of Greenpeace Aotearoa have intercepted two trawling vessels operating off the eastern coast of New Zealand, approaching them and writing “OCEAN KILLER” on their hulls in non-toxic paint before departing. The activist group said the vandalization is a protest against trawling in the Chatham Rise, an area it said is a hotspot for coral.
“Greenpeace Aotearoa activists have again taken action to stand up for ocean life that we all want to see thrive. Today, they have rebranded another bottom trawler at sea, once more calling out bottom trawlers for what they are – ‘ocean killers,’” Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Juan Parada said in a statement. “Bottom trawling is indiscriminate and destructive. When the heavy trawl nets are dragged across the seafloor and over seamounts, they turn coral into rubble and kill fur seals, sharks and seabirds as ‘bycatch.’ Out here, we’ve observed these trawlers operating day and night, emptying the oceans on which we all rely.”
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