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 Stories About: Australia AND fishing AND New Zealand AND oceans
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Rough times for the orange roughy
Better management is needed before closing fisheries is the only option left |
Andrew Sharpless |
07 Dec 2007 |
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| About thirty years ago, diners around the world developed a taste for the low-fat white meat of a large pelagic fish known as a slimehead. The name was changed to orange roughy, and a delicacy was born. Unfortunately for the orange roughy, its long lifespan (a hundred years or more) and its late arrival to sexual maturity (at 20 years or more) has made it vulnerable to overfishing. As its popularity in fine restaurants has grown, orange roughy populations hav ... |
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| Topics: Australia, fishing, New Zealand, oceans (all these topics) |
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