African fish stocks in danger

o1106045 - 11 JUNE 2004 - TASMAN SEA
Unwanted bycatch, including a starfish, far outweighs the target catch of orange roughy in a deep sea trawl from international waters in the Tasman Sea .Greenpeace along with more than a thousand scientists are supporting the call for a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling, because of the vast amount of marine life that is destroyed by this fishing method.
2004-Greenpeace/Roger Grace