The New Zealand delegation in the recent meeting of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation resisted efforts by the European Union to strengthen some controls that exist around bottom trawling. The New Zealand delegation, the Ministry for Primary Industries, resisted increasing the distance which vessels have to move to after they have had an accident and pulled up vulnerable marine ecosystem species like corals. New Zealand resisted increasing that distance from one nautical mile to five nautical miles. What that means is that if a fishing vessel encounters deep sea corals, pulls them up, then it only has to move one nautical mile away, and it may still be damaging the same seamount.