After three years of planning, a decommissioned fishing trawler took just 10 minutes to sink

A 60-year-old decommissioned fishing trawler has been intentionally sunk off the coast of Hawke's Bay to create an artificial reef and dive site.
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Fishermen, conservationists push to move trawlers off coast

MARSHFIELD — Charter boat captain Peter Murphy says he can't understand why regulators allow 150-foot trawlers to drag nets that stretch hundreds of feet through the ocean to catch Atlantic herring — ...