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New Zealand’s emergency fishing closure fails to protect endangered penguins, sparking legal challenge over inadequate safeguards and declining populations.
The Environmental Law Initiative is challenging New Zealand’s emergency closure of set-net fishing, arguing it fails to protect critically endangered northern hoiho penguins despite expanding from 4 to 8 nautical miles around the Otago Peninsula.
Key habitats like the Catlins, Banks Peninsula, and Stewart Island remain unprotected, risking further bycatch deaths.
With hoiho numbers plummeting to fewer than 150 breeding pairs and fewer than 20 chicks surviving in 2024, ELI says the move violates the Fisheries Act and ignores the species’ economic value to tourism.
This case marks the first use of emergency powers to protect a threatened species and could set a legal precedent.
El cierre de emergencia de la pesca en Nueva Zelanda no protege a los pingüinos en peligro de extinción, lo que ha provocado un desafío legal por las salvaguardias inadecuadas y el declive de las poblaciones.