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New Zealand’s Sealord ordered to forfeit $16m vessel over illegal deep-sea trawl

The company plans to keep using its vessel while it appeals the decision

By Undercurrent News | July 27, 2020 16:48 BST
Photograph by Christoph Strassler.
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Sealord Group, one of New Zealand's largest seafood harvesters and processors, has been ordered to forfeit Ocean Dawn, a $16 million vessel, and pay a $16,000 fine for an illegal deep-sea trawl in a protected zone, 1 News, an Auckland, New Zealand, television news service, reports.   [...]

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