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Top Stories Tamfitronics The Green Party has condemned the Government's late change to allow commercial fishing in protected areas in the Hauraki Gulf."This Government has bent over backwards to give fishing lobbyists exactly what they asked for, in an area of precious biodiversity facing ecological collapse," says the Green Party Spokesperson for the Environment, Lan Pham."Healthy marine environments are the lifeblood of our planet. We can have healthy and thriving fisheries and marine life - now and in the future - if we give fish stocks a chance to recover."The Auckland and wider Hauraki Gulf community alongside iwi and hapū have worked hard for many years to develop a framework for protecting the health of the Gulf, under the guidance of the Hauraki Gulf Forum, but this coalition comes along and rides roughshod over...