{"id":342829,"date":"2026-03-22T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342829\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:51:11","slug":"cruise-ship-protest-catches-fishers-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/342829\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise ship protest catches fishers\u2019 attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People fishing off Warren Lewis fishing jetty in Port Chalmers watch a demonstration by Climate Liberation Aotearoa supporters ahead of cruise ship\u00a0Norwegian Spirit\u00a0leaving port bound for Fiordland yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>About 14 people in kayaks and boats held flags and banners, while about 20 more supporters displayed placards from the jetty.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Liberation Aotearoa spokeswoman Rosemary Penwarden called for the government to ban cruise ships from Fiordland, a Unesco World Heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018It epitomises the tourist industry to the world. And the cruise ships are destroying it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018It\u2019s remote, it\u2019s dangerous. And we need to respect that.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian Spirit\u00a0is 270m long, with capacity for about 2000 passengers and 900 crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People fishing off Warren Lewis fishing jetty in Port Chalmers watch a demonstration by Climate Liberation Aotearoa supporters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-342829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}