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Plenty to do with the price of fish
Wednesday, August 01, 2012 • Sophie Rishworth
AN Inside New Zealand documentary tomorrow night that is tipped to be “quite shocking” will include interviews by Gisborne man Daren Coulston.

Called The Price of Fish, the TV3-funded two-year investigation looks at the scandal of foreign charter vessels — so-called “slave ships” — plundering New Zealand fish stocks, dumping oil and abusing their Indonesian crews in NZ waters.

Mr Coulston became involved in the issue after the fishing trawler Oyang 70 went down in calm seas on August 18, 2010 off the coast of Otago with the loss of six lives.

In 2010, he spent weeks in Indonesia interviewing the five widows and families of the six men who died, and many of the crew. Footage and the information gleaned through these interviews will form part of the documentary, which Mr Coulston said would be both enlightening and shocking to the public of New Zealand.

“Most people are not aware what has been going on out there, and it’s not — as far as I can tell — the New Zealand that anyone wants.

“We don’t expect these things to be happening in our country.

“We asked the crew what happened when the boat sank and asked them what else was going on out there and they told us.”

Mr Coulston has dedicated two years of his life to bring transparency to the atrocities he discovered on foreign-owned fishing vessels in NZ waters.

“The next question is, as New Zealanders are we prepared to tolerate it? Foreign charter vessels are still fishing here and they will be for another four years, but will the crew ever see justice?” he asked.

The former deep sea skipper encourages people to not only watch the documentary but to write to Minister for Primary Industries David Carter, Minister of Immigration Nathan Guy and Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson to protest against the conditions on board these vessels.

The Price of Fish is on TV3 tomorrow night at 9.30pm.
DOCO EXPOSES HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: Gisborne man Daren Coulston interviews an Indonesian family after the sinking of foreign charter fishing vessel Oyang 70 off the coast of Otago two years ago, with the loss of six lives. The interviews form part of a documentary aired on TV3 tomorrow night called The Price of Fish. Picture supplied
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