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What advice, reports, briefings or any other document, if any, has the Minister received or sent on the extent to which fishing methods, including set-netting and trawling, contribute to marine mammal deaths within marine mammal sanctuaries by date and title?

Answered Question 12614 (2026)
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Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

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  • What advice, reports, briefings or any other document, if any, has the Minister received or sent on the extent to which fishing methods, including set-netting and trawling, contribute to marine mammal deaths within marine mammal sanctuaries by date and title?

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Hon Tama Potaka

Member for Hamilton West · National Party · Minister of Conservation

Answer

I have received one supporting memo for a ministerial response to the Environmental Law Initiative on bycatch in marine mammal sanctuaries, dated 1 April 2026.