Happy to have contributed in a small way to this report out this week. The Hauraki Gulf was included as one of many cases studies around the world. 🌊
The common theme? Bottom trawling does not help with food security or the local environment.
Report:
The impact of bottom trawling in food […]
Heartbreaking, and yet more proof that the ocean around us needs more protection!
Seabirds struggled to raise chicks in the Hauraki Gulf this summer. What happened?
theconversation.com/seabirds-struggled-to-ra... […]
4/4 Le Defender monte en puissance dans le Rangitoto Channel. Cette reprise marque le début d'un bloc de travail crucial pour l'optimisation des réglages avant les prochaines échéances internationales. 🏆
#AmericasCup #ETNZ #HaurakiGulf #Voile
The irony is the fishing in the broader #HaurakiGulf will be better with the #MarineReserves in place than without them including as they act as nurseries for young fish - a safe place to grow.
#MarineConservation
And this article.
Crayfish 'functionally extinct' in the Hauraki Gulf
Removing too many crayfish & big snapper has skewed the ecology of the #HaurakiGulf and seen the rise of #KinaBarrens
These pieces are nearly 10 yrs old - more #MarineReserves are just happening
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
The #HaurakiGulf is a wonder - one of the richest marine environments around our coast.
While we have #NationalParks on land that we treasure, #MarineConservation has been left behind.
Can new Hauraki protections bridge the promise vs action gulf?
#greensky
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/03/c...
Raising a red flag over the decline of crayfish in the #GoatIsMarineReserve, #HaurakiGulf & #BayofPlenty is one of my stories I was most proud of.
So few journalists were/are covering marine issues.
Crayfish 'functionally extinct' in the HaurakiGulf
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
The good, the bad and the ugly about the new Hauraki Gulf Protection Act. 🌊
This new law will increase protection in the waters of the Hauraki Gulf and is coming into force from next weekend. 🐳
The Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Act: Turning the Tide for the Marine Park […]
While not lacking criticism, the Hauraki Gulf Protection Act is coming into force this weekend.
It is a net positive, despite its shortcomings, but much more work needs to be done to restore the mauri of Tīkapa Moana, the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park […]
An immature Takapu or Australasian gannet in the #HaurakiGulf #Auckland #NewZealand on 1st April 2015. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Wildlfe #Photography Please check out www.instagram.com/nick_e_robin... and submissions at #SuperSeabirdSunday and give this a repost. Thank you.
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Now that we're awake anyway, check out the awesome work of Heal the Hauraki.
This episode is about the amazing people doing the mahi to restore ecosystems in Tīkapa Moana Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.
AKA some of the witches with green liquid that Shane Jones is so scared of.
Heal the Hauraki - […]
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PhD project dev. artificial horse mussel reefs in NZ. Fully funded- Auckland Uni.
Vast #HorseMusselBeds in the #HaurakiGulf destroyed early last C. in boom & bust comm fishing skewing marine ecosyst
Could artificial structures help recovery NZ wide #science
profiles.auckland.ac.nz/j-hillman/te...
😳The #HaurakiGulf - it just keeps on giving.
Navy divers neutralise World War II #mines near Auckland
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
White-fronted tern, also known as Tara, #HaurakiGulf #Auckland #NewZealand on 1st April 2015. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Wildlfe #Photography Please check out www.instagram.com/nick_e_robin... and other submissions at #SuperSeabirdSunday and give this a repost. Thank you.
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This is long overdue. The population - as with the #HaurakiGulf - is in very bad shape.
Ban on taking #crayfish from Northland's east coast on the cards
#agsky #fisheries #MarineConservation
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Before Sunrise sky clouds create stories along horizon
After sunset sky colours gold red fire orange to grey clouds hug #Rangitoto and her sister islands on horizon clear yellow to blue high sky
Sunrise sunset sunrise sunset
Blessed beginnings blessed endings dark light dark light
Beauty emerging through light of the Night.
Empty full nothing everything
Sun shows us secrets through infinite sky stages.
Lucky lucky we are beyond belief
Simple magnificence manifested.
#HaurakiGulf #Rangitoto
In December 2023, marine biologists in New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf came upon an unusual sight: an octopus riding on the back of a shark. #sharktopus #makoshark #octopus #Isurusoxyrinchus #HaurakiGulf #Auckland
Ignoring the popular demand of protection to cave to commercial fishers, again.
This is yet more regulatory capture from the fishing industry preventing actual protection for a dwindling return of about $14K a year.
The health of the Hauraki Gulf is worth so much more than that.
(And there […]
Three very cool permanent jobs with #DOC connected to the expansion of marine protected areas in the #HaurakiGulf - down the road here at Warkworth. Two divers and a skipper. 👍🤿 🛥️🐟🦈
#Marinereserves #MarineConservation
careers.doc.govt.nz/jobs/DOC-184...
careers.doc.govt.nz/jobs/DOC-184...
Excellent. 🐟
With more #HaurakiGulf #MarineProtectedArea's (MPA's) proposed, Uni of Auck has a fully-funded PhD spot with Inst.Marine Science, based at Leigh.
Project: Improving video methods for monitoring the effectiveness of MPA's.
App deadline: 24 February 2025
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How have 800 years of human activity reshaped coastal habitats? 🐟 In @globalchangebio.bsky.social, we explore the #palaeobehaviour of #NewZealand #snapper, revealing shifts linked to the Industrial Revolution and offering vital insights for #conservation and #restoration. #HaurakiGulf t1p.de/zyfc4
For the amount of ill will, aggravation, & reduction in biodiversity outcomes, a simple no to Seafood NZ would have been a better option. Big public support for protection
Govt to weaken #HaurakiGulf marine protections over $14k in fishing revenue.
#MarineConservtion newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/22/g...
Appalling behaviour - hope they are identified & prosecuted. #MarineReserves act as reservoirs for fish populations in the wider #HaurakiGulf.
Swimmers bust alleged poachers at #GoatIsland marine reserve in Leigh, North Auckland
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/swimmers-...
In search of the world's largest #MantaRays in the #HaurakiGulf. These rays are in trouble globally. Being data deficient here sees them with no protection. So more info on their movements/activity is needed esp. if there is a local breeding population here.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Sounds good
EDS Webinar: The Role of #MarineSpatialPlanning
Dec 11, Midday. Reg needed
Marine manag/ protected areas/active marine restoration in NZ. Int. best practice/insights from #HaurakiGulf #SeaChange planning/proposed national marine spatial planning framework
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka was told not to allow commercial fishing in #HaurakiGulf protection zones, documents reveal
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/conservat...
Using the poor to justify commercial fishers in the #HaurakiGulf HPAs is ‘weak’, says iwi leader.
www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/using-t...
In this instance commercial fishing was no longer allowed but recreational fishing - with some restrictions - was.
Numbers of species like crayfish continued to fall & were basically non existent, esp when compared to fully protected Tawharanui in the #HaurakiGulf.
