New Zealand: An emergency set net fishing ban has gone into place around the Otago Peninsula to protect a threatened penguin population, following urgent calls from conservation groups who feared one of the world's rarest penguins was on the brink of extinction.
The three-month ban has gone into place immediately.
Department of Conservation (DOC) data showed the northern hoiho population (South Island and Rakiura/Stewart Island) had collapsed by 80 percent since 2008, from 739 breeding pairs to just 143, a drop of 80 percent from 2008 numbers. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573069/emergency-set-net-fishing-ban-enforced-to-protect-threatened-hoiho-around-otago-peninsula
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