# Environmental group The Green Connection is calling on the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment to disclose the decisions that have permitted commercial sardine fishing to continue. This follows a mass sardine die-off, which was attributed to pilchard herpesvirus, along roughly two-thousand-600 kilometres of the country’s coastline. The Green Connection’s Neville van Rooy says they are calling for a temporary suspension of sardine fishing until a new biomass survey is completed and an updated catch limit is announced:
Green Connection calls for temporary suspension of sardine fishing following mass die-off [SOUND]
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