Feedback sought on longer-term protection for northern hoiho

Feedback sought on longer-term protection for northern hoiho

Feedback is being sought on new proposals to reduce risk from commercial fishing to hoiho (yellow eyed penguins), Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. “In September, I put in place an emergency three-month closure to commercial set-net fishing around Otago Peninsula and directed officials to develop proposals for longer-term measures to reduce the impacts of set-net fishing on hoiho. “It’s clear from the new scientific risk assessment…