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Anthony wrote:Actually, we've yet to be rejected - we haven't even gotten that much of a reply from Valve / Steam. :/ I've been submitting the game monthly since December
From personally talking with Valve employees?
They get around 150-300 applications a day for games. Over half of them are first time projects that should be on something like Newgrounds rather then on Steam. Another large bunch is just reskinned versions of current games, stuff like Call of Duty 4, except the intro screen/menu/loading screens call it BIG JOES HOUSE OF PAIN.
They have nowhere near the manpower to check even half of these, so for many games, it gets a quick look, and if it looks like something from RPGMaker/other places, it'll just get put aside for later under the assumption it's another Newgrounds quality product, which many of these actually good indie games look like on the surface.
If they aren't swamped that day, they'll try to do a few internet searches for more information on it, but chances are they'll be swamped, and the first few seconds of the game will be all the information they'll get, and let's be honest, even stuff like To The Moon! feel somewhat low quality off first impression, it's only after you've played it do you realize it's a full quality game.
They are putting work into fixing this issue though, they've been hiring more and more devs to cover more ground, and have just started a huge hiring phase looking for people to "integrate with the indie community " that are supposed to find all these indie games that they don't have yet. So we'll see how that goes. Best advice though for indie devs is to put links to threads talking about their game in the menu or something for the Valve build, so they can check what the internet says about it easily.
e: This is also why stuff like Revelations 2012 are on Steam, and why it's easier to get games on Steam when you already have something. If you've purchased a Source license, you've already been working with Valve, so they generally don't bother to check it since they don't have time. And once you have a game up, all you have to do is call them up and say you've made something else, and they'll usually dredge it up from the rest of the games and streamline it in, since they trust you. It's also why I wish SOLDAK WOULD RESEND DIN'S CURSE, since he'd likely get it in now that he has Depths of Peril on Steam. I've emailed him about it several times, and he's just outright refused since he doesn't want to bother them or someshit.
I dunno, personally I'm not a fan of that Flash-made Newgrounds look either. To me, that says, "I learned how to use Flash when I was fifteen and I've neither changed nor improved my game design practices since."
That said I do like the after screenshot and it's much improved from the original. Really Penny Arcadey though and I don't much care for the PA art school, but whatev', I mean you can't demand the world from folks. The gameplay screens though I dunno it looks really "I got these sprites off a free-resources RPGMaker site."
Getting on Steam can be tough for an indie game; pretty much either you need a large fanbase, or to catch Valve's eye due to quality. This is how it should be; they have a vested interest in giving customers the expectation of quality. And, well, that game looks pretty easy to dismiss.
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May I suggest Desura as an alternative? I understand they're very open to indie games.
I'm not a developer, but yeah, I understand that's pretty standard. [Not getting a response for months on end]
It's not necessarily a rejection, either (they do send actual rejection letters, or so I've heard). I couldn't guess at how many games get submitted to Steam, but I imagine it's a mind boggling number; whoever's in charge of evaluating games probably took one look at the screenshots and put it at the back of the line for evaluating. I was following the development for Recettear (which looks kind of "generic anime game-y" at first glance) and I seem to recall they submitted to Steam and got no response, but eventually did get accepted.
I can only speak from our experience, of course, but we weren't able to make contact with steam for about four months. After that, we were told there were too many titles similar to ours on steam (A Space 4X/RTS which was launching in 2010 for reference). We tried to appeal that, or at least find out what they meant because the only other truly similar game available on steam at the time was Light of Altair, but no response came.
The only reason we got on steam is because of people mass-emailing steam about our product. Humorously, even though we were contacted by the same guy we were in "contact" with for over a year, he e-mailed us as if we'd never spoken before.
So I imagine that they speedrun through testing of potential titles. Or, at least, they did back then. No idea what's going on now but there's definitely been a few new hires. This is purely conjecture, but we were pretty sure back in 2010 that they only had one or two points of contact for indie games and I can imagine trying to sift through all that and be fair to everyone and failing miserably so we don't take it personally.
To this day, it's acknowledged by many developers that Valve's approval process is still almost completely random. I'd like to remind people that it took Aquaria - which was already an IGF grand prize winner, well reviewed and commercially successful - several flat rejections before someone at Valve googled 'Independent Games Festival' and realized that this was kind of a big thing.
You can have a multi-award-winning hit and Valve will tell you to go away. And sometimes, you can have just a single early gameplay trailer on Youtube and Valve will contact the developer, asking if they've got a distribution deal yet.
A lot of the bigger/more well known indie games get on Steam because the devs meet with Valve at a conference/show and go "hey, we have this awesome game coming out, here's a 3 second clip" or what have you, and then they get business cards exchanged and it goes from there.
Blindly submitting in to a queue of 700 games is not a good way to do it.
edit: "going from there" might mean giving Valve an alpha/beta build of the game for them to play internally for a bit and see if it's good. This only sort of works for the bigger AAA games, if you're making the 50,000th bejeweled clone with anime art, they probably won't help you out.
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Georgia Tech to the SEC: What is this, 1932?
Vineyarddawg lays out his strong opposition to the idea that Georgia Tech should be re-invited to join the SEC.
Vineyarddawg lays out his strong opposition to the idea that Georgia Tech should be re-invited to join the SEC.
With conference realignment rumors in full swing, two things to keep in mind for any rumors that are floated.
Basically, UConn and Cincinnati really, really, REALLY don't want to be in the same conference as Houston, SMU, Tulane, Navy and ECU.
The SEC hopes to iron out the scheduling oddities caused by conference expansion by shifting the site of the 2013 game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Auburn Tigers. What impact will this have on the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry?
No one expected a 51-44 shootout in Saturday night's SEC college football game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Tennessee Volunteers, but the Red and Black found a way to win a losable game to improve to 5-0.
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BLADENBORO —An incident at a Bladenboro laundromat has resulted in charges of assault being alleged between Bladenboro Town Manager Delane Jackson and two women.
The incident happened on Sunday night at Jackson's laundromat located on Seaboard Street in Bladenboro.
Jackson said he went to check on his business and to see if it needed cleaning when he says he was stopped by two women — identified as Penny Luann Sahli and Zoritta Wood — who were outside the building.
According to Jackson, one of the women said a washer was not working properly and she wanted her money back.
Jackson said he tried to inquire as to what the machine was doing so he could determine what he needed to repair it, but the situation "digressed after that."
According to Jackson the second woman then entered the establishment and they began to yell.
Jackson said, "the women came within close proximity of me. I asked both of them to step back and get out of my face and they refused to do so."
At some point, Jackson's keys were knocked our of his hands. He said the keys landed on the floor near the two women and, when he asked them to step back so he could retrieve them, they refused.
Jackson said they were standing over the keys and he put his hands on their shoulders and pushed them back. He characterized his actions as defensive in nature.
Jackson said he was at home later that evening, at about 11:30 p.m., when he received a telephone call notifying him the women had taken out warrants. He said he contacted Bladenboro Mayor Livingston Lewis and proceeded to the magistrate's office where the warrants were served. At that time, Jackson also took warrants on the women, charging them with simple assault.
Jackson, Sahli and Wood are scheduled to appear in Bladen County District Court on April 23.
According to records with the N.C. Department of Corrections, both women have criminal records — Sahli's record dates back to 1989 and includes convictions for larceny, larceny after breaking and entering, theft, credit card fraud, forgery, and drugs. In 2003, she was declared a habitual felon; Wood's record dates to 2005 and includes convictions for larceny and drug-related offenses.
According to reports, Sahli has a different recollection of events.
Sahli said that she was doing her laundry in Jackson's laundromat and the machines were not working. She said another patron told her if she wanted to speak to Jackson she needed to do something that would be seen by the security cameras that Jackson allegedly watches from home.
According to reports, Sahli said she tried to explain to Jackson what happened but he became visibly upset and began to swear before giving her the money back.
Sahli told WWAY, "He said, 'Get out of my washer. I could ban you,'" Sahli said. She said, 'I'm calling (police officer) Randy Sykes.' He said, 'You call Randy Sykes, because he works for me. You tell him to come to my house and have some tea.'"


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Sharks do the business in Bloem
6 Oct 2012
GARETH DUNCAN watched the Sharks secure top spot on the Currie Cup log after their 37-30 bonus-point win over the Free State Cheetahs in Bloemfontein.
With the Golden Lions going down in Kimberley, the Sharks are now favourites to finish first in the standings ahead of the semi-finals. If they win their final league fixture against Griquas in Durban next weekend, they will have home-ground advantage for the play-offs.
Head coach John Plumtree will credit a slick attacking performance that helped his charges down the Cheetahs in their own backyard.
Wing Odwa Ndungane grabbed a brace, while outside centre Paul Jordaan, flank Jacques Botes and replacement hooker Kyle Cooper also crossed the chalk. Flyhalf Meyer Bosman added three conversions and two penalties in what finished as a comfortable win for the visitors
However, the Cheetahs caused some early concerns after they surged into an early 10-0 lead.
Wing Raymond Rhule continued his outstanding breakthrough season with an impressive individual try. Getting the ball at first receiver, the Baby Bok speedster showed great pace to skin Bosman and prop Dale Chadwick for an easy run to the whitewash. Wing Nico Scheepers added a conversion, and later converted a penalty.
The Sharks fought back as Ndungane capitalised on enterprising backline play and scored two tries.
His first came after smart interplay with Springbok wing JP Pietersen, who showed fine form in his comeback from a broken thumb suffered in the Super Rugby final. Ndungane's second was a finish to a good team build-up.
Bosman added a conversion and penalty to secure the Sharks a 15-10 half-time lead.
The Durban union extended their advantage in the first minute of the second half as flank Keegan Daniel's chip into space was collected by Jordaan.
The Cheetahs narrowed the gap with scrumhalf Sarel Pretorius' score and Scheepers' boot, but tries from Botes and Hooper sealed the result.
The Cheetahs grabbed a consolation losing bonus point as Rhule powered over at the death. This was enough to lift themselves off the bottom of the log with the Blue Bulls falling to last place.
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6 Oct 2012, 18:42 pmCheetahs!!!!!!
7 Oct 2012, 08:41 amwould have been nice if Cheetahs got a 4th try for that extra log point. Lions V Bulls will be a good game next weekend
7 Oct 2012, 11:22 amWell done Sharks.
One has to wonder how Keegan is playing CC instead of with the Boks? Crazy really.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DioGenix, Inc. announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent that broadly protects DioGenix' proprietary next-generation sequencing assay, MSPrecise™, that has shown in recent clinical studies to accurately identify patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) at first clinical presentation.
"This patent, combined with DioGenix' expertise in developing novel molecular tests, is a strategic necessity, as our lead clinical trial advances to validate the accuracy of MSPrecise in real-world populations being evaluated for a variety of neuroimmune diseases like MS. These rights are merely the first in a growing patent estate based on novel insights into human neurology from a series of clinical studies initiated by the combined team at DioGenix and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW)," said Larry Tiffany, President and CEO of DioGenix. "Indeed, this patent is a cornerstone of our intellectual property portfolio that allows the company to pursue a longer-term strategy; building a comprehensive pipeline of tests for a variety of immune-mediated neurological diseases."
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A band that likes to go with whatever is popular. They used to try to be punk, and now you see them all glaring at you from under side bangs Some nerd: Wow! Good Charlotte is so totally cool! First they were so rebellious hating rich people and sing about not wanting to be like everyone else, but now they are so in touch with there emotions! How cool!
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A band that is only popular because the goons at MTV made them popular. Some people think that all bands on MTV are good, but good bands are bands that make music not for cash, but for the fans and meanings. Fuck the Media that thinks they can tell bands how to play.
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a poser-punk band that tries to be emo but in reality, just sucks. they dress punk but then their music sounds like a darker version of the backstreet boys. if you would like to hear more about this band, head over to hot topic and ask all the preppy chicks, im sure they have a lot to say. interested person: what do you know about the band good charlotte?
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A poseur punk-pop band from D.C. The lead singer sounds like a castrated church boy. Thanks to the folks down at MTV, we have to put up with these ass wipes. You like Good Charlotte? Dude, get a life.
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Alright, I will state that I was curious about this band about four years ago. I thought to myself: "Good Charlotte can't be that bad if they have so many 'hardcore' fans that go everywhere, buy everything and speak anything that is to do with Good Charlotte." Man, was I wrong. Good Charlotte sucks. They're basically a boy band that wears black clothes and wears eyeliner. Their music sounds like sped up emo music. You could describe their music as "emo with estrogen". MTV markets them to the teenybopper crowd. How so many young, impressionable kids can get suckered hook, line, and sinker into ANY of the garbage that this pathetic excuse of a band dumps onto them is beyond me. They definitely appeal to 12 year old kids, who have such a horrible life because they can't go to the mall and buy new clothes or get a new video game.
They are a whiny band that love to sing about how "horrible" and "tragic" their life is, meanwhile they are sitting in cash in their mansions. No one cares except for their legions of self-pitying fans who feel they can truly connect with GC's "deep" and "inspiring" so-called "music". They even have whiny ballads that sound like the rest of the "pop-punk" and "emo" genres at the moment. Yeah, GC is fuelled by teen angst and armed with extremely bad talent. I'm sorry kiddies but Good Charlotte is nothing more than pop. I'm 16 & I'm already getting tired of the new music because it is getting horrible & more horrible. It's a manufactured popularity c... |
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a band that used to be cool. then they sold out big time, and there fanbase is a bunch of preppy teenage girls who think they are rebellious. also the lead singer thinks he is black. preppy teenage girl: this is the anthem throw all your hands up i dont wanna be just like you!! Good Charlotte is sooo cool!! I especially like them because all of my other friends do!
Sane person: I thought you just said you didnt want to be just like everyone else. Comment submitted with request to Delete: "i think this definition along with most of these should be deleted because if these people really like good charlotte in the first place, they wouldn't have stopped liking them just because other people started liking them. These idiots are just jealous because these guys are living their dream and the people complaining about them."
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Is NOT a punk band at all. They are seriuosly a band for 9 year olds ( I should know because for reasons unknow I was obsessed with them WHEN I WAS 9). They're a bunch of whiny preps dressed in black in order to sell their self-pity albums. And they marry people like fuckin Nicole Richie. Big time wanna-bes. One of them even said "I guess if you're gonna dress like you listen to The Cure all the time, you're gonna get s... for it". LOSERS! Don't even dare compare yourselves to the greatness of The Cure. Damn whiny emos.... stupid kid: " OMGAWD!!! I LOVE Good Charlotte. GC 4EVER!"
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"I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready to speak candidly," Armstrong told The Associated Press, referring to his interview today with Oprah Winfrey.
In what's been billed as a "no-holds barred" session, the cyclist is expected to apologize for doping, as well as offer a limited confession about his role at the head of a long-running scheme to dominate the Tour de France with the aid of performance-enhancing drugs.
The interview will take place at his home and will be broadcast Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Armstrong was stripped of all seven tour titles last year in the wake of a voluminous U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that portrayed him as a ruthless competitor, willing to go to any lengths to win the prestigious race.
"The most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen," is how USADA chief executive Travis Tygart labeled the doping regimen allegedly carried out by the U.S. Postal Service team that Armstrong once led.
It will be Armstrong's first public response to the USADA report. A person with knowledge of the situation told the AP a day earlier that Armstrong will give a limited confession and apologize. He is not expected to provide a detailed account about his involvement, nor address in depth many of the specific allegations in the more than 1,000-page USADA report.
In a text to the AP on Saturday, Armstrong said: "I told her (Winfrey) to go wherever she wants and I'll answer the questions directly, honestly and candidly. That's all I can say."
A confession would be a stunning reversal after years of public statements, interviews and court battles from Austin to Europe that Armstrong waged while zealously protecting his reputation.
After a federal investigation of the cyclist was dropped without charges being brought last year, USADA stepped in with an investigation of its own. The agency deposed nearly a dozen former teammates and accused Armstrong of masterminding a complex and brazen drug program that included steroids, blood boosters and a range of other performance-enhancers.
Armstrong had remained defiant, tweeting a picture of himself on a couch at home with all seven of the yellow leader's jerseys on display in frames behind him. But the preponderance of evidence in the USADA report and pending legal challenges on several fronts apparently forced him to change tactics dramatically.
A federal whistle-blower lawsuit brought by former teammate Floyd Landis, who himself was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title, accuses Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service. The Justice Department has yet to announce whether it will join the case.
The London-based Sunday Times is also suing Armstrong to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel lawsuit, and Dallas-based SCA Promotions has threatened to bring yet another lawsuit against Armstrong to recover more than $7.5 million an arbitration panel awarded him as a bonus for winning the Tour de France.
The lawsuit most likely to be influenced by a confession might be the Sunday Times case. Potential perjury charges stemming from his sworn testimony in the 2005 arbitration fight would not apply because of the statute of limitations. Armstrong was not deposed during a federal investigation that was closed last year without charges being brought.
But the USADA report persuaded many of his sponsors to drop Armstrong — at the cost of tens of millions of dollars — and soon after, he left the board of the Livestrong cancer-fighting charity he founded in 1997. Armstrong is still said to be worth about $100 million.
Livestrong might be another reason Armstrong has decided to come forward with an apology and limited confession. The charity supports cancer patients and still faces an image problem because of its association with Armstrong. He may also be hoping a confession would allow him to return to competition in the elite triathlon or running events he participated in after his cycling career.
But World Anti-Doping Code rules state his lifetime ban cannot be reduced to less than eight years. WADA and U.S. Anti-Doping officials could agree to reduce the ban further depending on what new information Armstrong provides and his level of cooperation.
USADA officials said in a recent interview that the cyclist's cooperation could well initiate a "pathway to redemption."


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If it were up to two investors in The Timken Co. (NYSE: TKR), the Canton-based business would spin off its steel business to maximize shareholder value, according to documents filed publicly today.
The San Diego-based registered investment adviser, Relational Investors LLC, along with the California State Teachers' Retirement System, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a Schedule 13D form announcing they've invested in Timken to the tune of $254.3 million and 5.89 million shares. That's more than 6% of the company's shares.
In the same filing, the two also reveal that the California State Teachers' Retirement System has submitted a shareholder proposal to be voted upon by the company's shareholders at the company's next annual meeting. It recommends that the board of directors and management of Timken "act expeditiously to engage an investment banking firm to effectuate a spin-off of the steel business into a separately traded public company." The filing reveals Relational executives met with company management and board directors in August to recommend the same.Both investing bodies say they believe a spinoff would fundamentally and positively change the way the market values the overall business. They believe the market currently significantly undervalues Timken "due to its combination of two incongruent, core businesses and that a spin-off of the steel business from the remaining business segments … would maximize shareholder value.""A spin-off of the steel business would be consistent with actions taken by many major industrial companies," the shareholder proposal stated.An attempt to reach a Timken representative late this afternoon was not successful.
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Video: After UFC on FOX 5 win, Gustafsson still fine fighting before title shot
by Matt Erickson on Dec 13, 2012 at 2:20 pm ET
Given a couple days to think it over, that's his story, and he's sticking to it.
Gustafsson (15-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) made relatively easy work of Rua (21-7 MMA, 5-5 UFC), a former UFC light heavyweight champion, at UFC on FOX 5 in Seattle. The winner was expected to put himself next in line for the 205-pound title, likely to face the winner of April's title fight between champion Jon Jones and challenger Chael Sonnen.
And that still may be the case – that Gustafsson now is the contender in waiting. But if he is, he doesn't like the timetable. A late April title fight means the soonest Gustafsson could face the Jones-Sonnen winner would be late summer. On Monday, he reiterated that he has no interest in another long layoff.
"No way – I want to fight earlier than that," he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "If the UFC wants me to fight, I'll fight. It doesn't matter who they put in front of me."
But make no mistake. Gustafsson has his sights squarely focused on one big end goal, and that's the UFC light heavyweight title. He just doesn't want to take the path some others have taken before him, which is being anointed the top contender, then sitting back and waiting – oftentimes to their detriment.
"Of course I want the belt and I want to fight for the title," Gustafsson said. "That's my main goal and that's my dream. When I get the chance, I'll be more than ready for it – for Jones, Chael, who knows who has the belt when everything is sorted out. But I want to stay busy at the same time. I had a long layoff – I fought in April, and then I fought in December. That's too long for me. I want to be more active. So if I get a fight in between, that would be great, too. But I want to fight for the belt."
Gustafsson in April headlined the UFC's first trip to his home country of Sweden, where he beat Thiago Silva. But waiting eight months for his return this past Saturday is a wait he's not prepared to deal with again.
That's not to say Gustafsson wouldn't be happy with a little time off.
"I'm a little bit banged up," he said. "After three rounds, you're always a little bit banged up. It's just bruises, and I'll be good in a few days.
"He hits super hard, but I felt fine the whole fight and I was never rocked or anything like that. I was in danger with the foot lock, but that was it. He had it, but I never really felt any pain. It was really close – but I did what I could to defend it and it worked out fine."
And after he's "good in a few days"? Gustafsson plans to get right back to work.
"I'm learning all the time, and the best way to learn is to have a tough fight," he said. "I learned a lot from this fight, and I always try to be better every fight. I'm going to go back to the gym soon and start working on everything."
Just who he's preparing for remains to be seen, though. But there's little doubt that Gustafsson will ready to go.
For complete coverage of UFC on FOX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
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Whether you see yourself arguing a major case in the U.S. Supreme Court or defending a client in a county court, you'll need to have a law degree to practice.
Pre-law is an Interdisciplinary Studies concentration designed to assist the student in developing the communicative, analytical and methodological skills important to the legal profession. Under the guidance of the pre-law advisor, the program seeks to provide a broad liberal arts education in order to prepare a student for admission to and success in law school, graduate school or employment in the public and private sector.
Law schools do not require prospective students to major in a particular academic discipline. They recommend a broad, fairly comprehensive liberal arts education, for a lawyer needs more than legal skills and tools.
The lawyer should have a wide understanding of political, social, economic and philosophical problems - insights that provide a richer and more complete understanding of the legal profession itself and the place of the law as it functions within the socio-governmental framework.
The Pre-Law concentration is divided into two areas: communication skills, and analytical and methodological skills. Within these two areas, the student fashions his/her program in accordance with the requirements of the Interdisciplinary Studies major. It is strongly recommended that one area be within communication skills.
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In 2006 the UN General Assembly called for better management of bottom fishing in the high seas. In response, the SPRFMO adopted a set of interim conservation and management measures in 2007. New Zealand's first step has been to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs), such as coldwater corals and sponge fields, from adverse effects caused by bottom trawling.
The Ministry of Fisheries has mapped where bottom trawling occurred during 2002-2006. Fishing outside of this 'footprint' is prohibited. The footprint is further divided into lightly, moderately or heavily trawled areas according to the bottom trawling that took place in this period.
To protect the VMEs the largely pristine, lightly trawled areas have then been closed, together with representative parts of the moderately and heavily trawled areas. These closures amount to 41 percent of the entire footprint; around 112,000 square kilometres in the South Pacific area.
In open, moderately trawled areas, bottom trawlers are required to move on five nautical miles whenever evidence of a VME is encountered. The interim measures also make it mandatory for all high seas bottom trawlers to have a Ministry of Fisheries observer onboard.
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