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The United States government may recommend that orange roughy be classified as a threatened species.

The recommendation would be made to CITES, the world body overseeing trade of wild animals and plants.

If the move was accepted it would put greater restirctions on commerical fishing of the species and a strict monitoring programme would have to be set up.

Recent NZ government estimates put the number of adult orange roughy in New Zealand waters at around 140 million.

Should orange roughy be classified as a threatened species? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:

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2. Steely Del says
   "The writing has been on the wall on this one for years and it should come as no surprise. Rape and pillage folks, modern mans' way!"
3. raegun says
   "Perhaps a bit of realism could prevail here, practically everything in the ocean is under threat now. Not a lot of point in singling out one species."
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