Fish survey would do more harm than Tui drilling

Fish survey would do more harm than Tui drilling
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans Nov. 7 (BusinessDesk) - Fish sampling proposed by submitters to Tamarind Resources’ planned drilling at the Tui field would do more harm than the campaign itself, a board of inquiry heard today. Marine ecologist Alison MacDiarmid said surveys proposed by Te Korowai O Ngaruahine Trust for the remainder of the Tui consent would require bottom trawling which is a “destructive” process for both the seafloor and the fish caught. The surveys were proposed as a way of measuring the direct and cumulative environmental effects of...