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A nationwide ban on drift netting is among a raft of changes to fishing methods as part of a Government plan to protect endangered dolphins. Māui dolphins are critically endangered, with only about 63 left and Hector’s dolphins were nationally vulnerable with about 15,000 in New Zealand’s waters...It will see extensions to the marine mammal protection areas and a proposal to prohibit seismic surveying and seabed mining in the five marine mammal protection areas.
