Considered a model of enlightened self interest, the New Zealand Seafood Industry is furious about a splashy newspaper article anchored to environmental organizations’ claims that insinuates a systemic failure surrounding the harvesting of hoki, which finds itself in fast-food fish sandwiches.
In a series of letters exchanged with The New York Times, which published the disputed story two weeks ago and on Friday issued a limited apology by e-mail that has not yet made its corrections page, industry officials and representatives found a plethora of errors in the original story by William J. Broad.
WorldFishingToday.com, the Web site of Commercial Fishing News World Wide, published an extensive report that noted the New Zealand fishing industry had sent The New York Times an open letter "detailing a variety of omissions and distortions in its reporting that painted an erroneous picture of the nation’s fishing community."
Read the complete story at The Gloucester Daily Times.
See also: Times apologizes to New Zealand hoki fishery,
and: New Zealand Hoki Fishery Deserves Praise, Not Condemnation.