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Only two of the 43 crew members and more than 6,000 cattle onboard the Gulf Livestock 1,<\/a> which was heading from New Zealand to China<\/a>, survived, prompting authorities to suspend live cattle exports and launch a review.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspension expires on Oct. 23, but a conditional ban is in place until Nov. 30, during which time New Zealand\u2019s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) can livestock exports by sea subject to the new conditions. The conditions include additional inspection of livestock ships, lowering stock density on vessels to 90% of current limits to match new Australian standards, increased requirements for voyage reporting and ensuring at least 20% of feed is available for unplanned delays.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MPI said it moved fast to ensure there\u2019s no serious animal welfare issue for the 24,000 cows in pre-export quarantine, which would likely have to be slaughtered without the interim measures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe want to ensure they are moved safely. It\u2019s important to note New Zealand does not export animals for slaughter, but as breeding stock,\u201d said MPI Director-General Ray Smith.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Zealand has been looking into a wider policy review of live animal exports since 2019. MPI said it will advise the new government in the coming weeks after the ruling Labour party was returned to power last week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ($1 = 1.4979 New Zealand dollars)<\/em><\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Only two of the 43 crew members and more than 6,000 cattle onboard the Gulf Livestock 1, which was heading from New Zealand to China, survived, prompting authorities to suspend live cattle exports and launch a review. The suspension expires on Oct. 23, but a conditional ban is in place until Nov. 30, during which …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[8292,813,1241,4573],"class_list":["post-19994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-cracks","tag-livestock","tag-ships","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/19995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}