If you are heading to Aotea Great Barrier this summer you need to read this:There are currently biosecurity rules in place making it illegal to fish from three harbours on Aotea Great Barrier Island. to prevent the spread of the invasive seaweed pest Caulerpa brachypus.
The requirements are set out in a Controlled Area Notice (CAN). As well as banning the take of any marine life (fish, shellfish, seaweed, crays), if you anchor in these harbours, you’ll need a permit from Biosecurity New Zealand to move on. As partners in the response, Ngāti Rehua Ngāti Wai ki Aotea have placed a rāhui over the same areas.
The legal controls are in place until Thursday, 30 June 2022.
Eye-catching new campaign from WWF New Zealand to help save the Hauraki Gulf, Tīkapa Moana, Te Moananui-ā-Toi! 🐳 Learn more about it below:Are You Pro-Extinction?
A new poll shows huge public support for measures to protect and restore Tīkapa Moana, Te Moananui-ā-Toi. SBN is joining calls to finally ban trawling and
Breaking: Minister approves Waiheke closure. 🐳 Ngā mihi Ngāti Pāoā for leading this, Waiheke Marine Project, Waiheke Local Board and the Waiheke community for their support, and to David Parker for approving the closure today. A great day for the Hauraki Gulf, Tīkapa Moana, Te Moananui-ā-Toi.
Yes…. Great.. read that today. 👏🏼Bruce said the local Tribe have instigated it some time ago…. There’s been noShell fish around for some time!!! Great news 👏🏼
Great news, good work everyone ❤️
A chance for the place to recover 👏👏👏
Good news. Well done people!
Congratulations this is so huuuuuuuuuge💙
Best Christmas present ever it's going to keep fisheries busy all Summer
Breaking news: each whale in the Hauraki Gulf is consuming 3 million microplastics a day. 😢🐳 That's not a typo - 3,000,000 a day for each Bryde's or sei whale tested. Hear more from Dr Rochelle Constantine of the The University of Auckland and our own Tangata Whenua Co-Chair Nicola MacDonald on the 1News piece below.
And here's the kicker: 99.99% of the microplastic ingested is already in the plankton, not just floating around in the water, so water quality testing won't necessarily be picking this up. The whole food chain is compromised.
Our next hui will be online on Monday 29 November from 1pm. The agenda papers are now out here: infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/. A zoom link to join will be posted in the comments closer to the time of the meeting. All very welcome! ... See MoreSee Less
This is great news. What’s needed now is to translate this into action - pronto!
Really exciting to see these results support what we're hearing on the ground
Congrats, great news, people want this!
Save even more money by just printing everything in English that everyone speaks.
Excellent! Any chance of political will making the changes required? 🙄
Pollution from Auckland city is screwing the Gulf… & they’re still cramming more people into the crap-hole! Until something is done about the gross overpopulation of Auckland & failing sewerage system you’re wasting your time. It’s all money & greed driven.
🐥 tara iti breeding season please be careful there are only 40 left in the 🌏The first tara iti/fairy tern egg of the 2021/2022 breeding season has appeared at Papakānui, one of their four nesting sites that are all North of Auckland!
While this is fantastic news, we have had some concerns about behaviour that occurred at another breeding site at the same time the egg was discovered.
Last weekend we came across a person and her dog in a vehicle parked in the dunes at the base of the wildlife refuge at Mangawhai. The person was escorted out of the reserve and now this incident is being followed up by our compliance officers - for entering a wildlife refuge (breaching the Northland reserves bylaws) with a vehicle and a dog. Both are prohibited and may result in a $800.00 infringement notice.
It’s concerning to see such a blatant breach of wildlife refuge rules, especially with the tara iti/fairy tern breeding season just starting.
With fewer than 40 birds, the tara iti/fairy tern is nationally critical and despite intensive management has teetered on the brink of extinction since the 1980s.
In partnership with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, the Revive Our Gulf project is working to establish kūtai beds and improve the health and mauri / life essence of Ōkahu Bay. For Ngāti Whātua Ōrā...
When the diets of our largest residents of the Hauraki Gulf, our tohorā 🐳, change rapidly as this important research shows, it matters for more than just the whales...New research from our members:
Multi-species feeding associations are temporary and dynamic communities of animals exploiting the same or co-occurrent resources. We determined how shifts in whale prey preference from fish to zooplankton changed the dynamics between seabird competitors over a 10-year period in the Hauraki Gulf. Communities that rely on interactions for foraging success are vulnerable to changes by key predators, leading to degradation of the mauri in the Gulf.
Good news!***Motutapu-Rangitoto stoat incursion update***
Breaking news! Last Friday, a stoat was found caught in a DOC150 trap on Motutapu Island. The trap was located in an artificial den using the sonic lure of a recording of juvenile stoats, as well as female stoat-scented bedding. This is the first time DOC has used this type of sonic lure to trap a stoat.
To help us determine if there are other stoat(s) still remaining, the stoat has been sent for DNA analysis to help us compare its genotype with those of scats already found on the islands. We also have two more conservation dog visits booked, and have moved the sonic lure to a new area. We continue to trap and use thermal camera imaging. Ka rawe!
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
13 hours ago
If you are heading to Aotea Great Barrier this summer you need to read this:There are currently biosecurity rules in place making it illegal to fish from three harbours on Aotea Great Barrier Island. to prevent the spread of the invasive seaweed pest Caulerpa brachypus.
The requirements are set out in a Controlled Area Notice (CAN). As well as banning the take of any marine life (fish, shellfish, seaweed, crays), if you anchor in these harbours, you’ll need a permit from Biosecurity New Zealand to move on.
As partners in the response, Ngāti Rehua Ngāti Wai ki Aotea have placed a rāhui over the same areas.
The legal controls are in place until Thursday, 30 June 2022.
For more information, please visit: bit.ly/31ycCZ1 ... See MoreSee Less
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Alix Webster Wayan J Rosie Bradley Twiss
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
15 hours ago
Eye-catching new campaign from WWF New Zealand to help save the Hauraki Gulf, Tīkapa Moana, Te Moananui-ā-Toi! 🐳 Learn more about it below:Are You Pro-Extinction?
Learn more: ow.ly/psJR50H2v3m ... See MoreSee Less
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
2 days ago
Ngā mihi nui Sustainable Business Network Million Metres 👏🐳 ... See MoreSee Less
Kiwis want to protect and restore the Hauraki Gulf – not trawl it - Sustainable Business Network
sustainable.org.nz
A new poll shows huge public support for measures to protect and restore Tīkapa Moana, Te Moananui-ā-Toi. SBN is joining calls to finally ban trawling andShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
6 days ago
💪👏 🐳 mīharo! Awesome!
Revive Our Gulf
Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei - Whai Māia ... See MoreSee Less
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
👏👏👏
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
1 week ago
Breaking: Minister approves Waiheke closure. 🐳 Ngā mihi Ngāti Pāoā for leading this, Waiheke Marine Project, Waiheke Local Board and the Waiheke community for their support, and to David Parker for approving the closure today. A great day for the Hauraki Gulf, Tīkapa Moana, Te Moananui-ā-Toi.
www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-releases/waiheke-island-scallop-mussel-rock-lobster-and-paua-fisheries... ... See MoreSee Less
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Wonderful news! Thanks to all those involved ♥️
Yes…. Great.. read that today. 👏🏼Bruce said the local Tribe have instigated it some time ago…. There’s been noShell fish around for some time!!! Great news 👏🏼
Great news, good work everyone ❤️
A chance for the place to recover 👏👏👏
Good news. Well done people!
Congratulations this is so huuuuuuuuuge💙
Best Christmas present ever it's going to keep fisheries busy all Summer
Excellent news!👍❤️
Fantastic news! Ka pai 👏👏👏
View more comments
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
1 week ago
Breaking news: each whale in the Hauraki Gulf is consuming 3 million microplastics a day. 😢🐳 That's not a typo - 3,000,000 a day for each Bryde's or sei whale tested. Hear more from Dr Rochelle Constantine of the The University of Auckland and our own Tangata Whenua Co-Chair Nicola MacDonald on the 1News piece below.
And here's the kicker: 99.99% of the microplastic ingested is already in the plankton, not just floating around in the water, so water quality testing won't necessarily be picking this up. The whole food chain is compromised.
Learn more at the paper published here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721068911?via%3Dihub ... See MoreSee Less
Whales in Hauraki Gulf consume millions of microplastics each day - study
www.1news.co.nz
A study led by Auckland University discovered that on average, whales ingests about 25,000 microplastics per mouthful.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
2 weeks ago
Our next hui will be online on Monday 29 November from 1pm. The agenda papers are now out here: infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/. A zoom link to join will be posted in the comments closer to the time of the meeting. All very welcome! ... See MoreSee Less
Infocouncil
infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Zoom details for Monday 29 Nov 1pm Meeting ID: 833 2651 5762 Passcode: 824230
Thanks - joining now
Jan Welsh
Kathy Voyles
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
3 weeks ago
Breaking: new public poll reveals overwhelming support for protecting and restoring the Hauraki Gulf. 🐳 See more here:
gulfjournal.org.nz/2021/11/results-of-hauraki-gulf-poll/ ... See MoreSee Less
Results of Hauraki Gulf Poll
gulfjournal.org.nz
A groundbreaking new poll (available for download below) shows huge […]Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
This is great news. What’s needed now is to translate this into action - pronto!
Really exciting to see these results support what we're hearing on the ground
Congrats, great news, people want this!
Save even more money by just printing everything in English that everyone speaks.
Excellent! Any chance of political will making the changes required? 🙄
Pollution from Auckland city is screwing the Gulf… & they’re still cramming more people into the crap-hole! Until something is done about the gross overpopulation of Auckland & failing sewerage system you’re wasting your time. It’s all money & greed driven.
What a crock of shit
View more comments
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
3 weeks ago
Did you know there is a newly released report on seabirds called 'State of Our Seabirds' by the Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust - NNZST?
gulfjournal.org.nz/2021/11/the-state-of-our-seabirds/ ... See MoreSee Less
The State of our Seabirds
gulfjournal.org.nz
The Te Moananui-ā-Toi / Tīkapa Moana / Hauraki Gulf is […]Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
3 weeks ago
😡
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/boat-seized-after-fishermen-caught-with-99-snapper-including-undersized-fis... ... See MoreSee Less
Boat seized after fishermen caught with 99 snapper, including undersized fish - NZ Herald
www.nzherald.co.nz
Auckland MPI Fishery Officers seized a recreational boat after the group were foundShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Name and shame. Confiscate boat trailer and vehicle and fine him\her.!!!
😩
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
4 weeks ago
🐥 tara iti breeding season please be careful there are only 40 left in the 🌏The first tara iti/fairy tern egg of the 2021/2022 breeding season has appeared at Papakānui, one of their four nesting sites that are all North of Auckland!
While this is fantastic news, we have had some concerns about behaviour that occurred at another breeding site at the same time the egg was discovered.
Last weekend we came across a person and her dog in a vehicle parked in the dunes at the base of the wildlife refuge at Mangawhai. The person was escorted out of the reserve and now this incident is being followed up by our compliance officers - for entering a wildlife refuge (breaching the Northland reserves bylaws) with a vehicle and a dog. Both are prohibited and may result in a $800.00 infringement notice.
It’s concerning to see such a blatant breach of wildlife refuge rules, especially with the tara iti/fairy tern breeding season just starting.
With fewer than 40 birds, the tara iti/fairy tern is nationally critical and despite intensive management has teetered on the brink of extinction since the 1980s.
Read more here: bit.ly/3n7pn4R
📷 :Malcom Pullman ... See MoreSee Less
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
4 weeks ago
Some exciting mahi happening in Ōkahu bay right now to keep your eyes on...
www.reviveourgulf.org.nz/stories/about-the-okahu-bay-project/
Revive Our Gulf The Nature Conservancy The University of Auckland Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei - Whai Māia ... See MoreSee Less
About the Ōkahu bay project - Revive Our Gulf
www.reviveourgulf.org.nz
In partnership with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, the Revive Our Gulf project is working to establish kūtai beds and improve the health and mauri / life essence of Ōkahu Bay. For Ngāti Whātua Ōrā...Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Fantastic 👏👏👏👏
Lisa M Ridehalgh
Wahoo!
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
4 weeks ago
Perception v reality... 😢 ... See MoreSee Less
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
4 weeks ago
When the diets of our largest residents of the Hauraki Gulf, our tohorā 🐳, change rapidly as this important research shows, it matters for more than just the whales...New research from our members:
Multi-species feeding associations are temporary and dynamic communities of animals exploiting the same or co-occurrent resources. We determined how shifts in whale prey preference from fish to zooplankton changed the dynamics between seabird competitors over a 10-year period in the Hauraki Gulf. Communities that rely on interactions for foraging success are vulnerable to changes by key predators, leading to degradation of the mauri in the Gulf.
Full article: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.739894/full
University University of Pisa, The University of Auckland
If you would like your research shared, please email secretary@nzmss.org with a short summary and link to the article. ... See MoreSee Less
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Hauraki Gulf Forum Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui-ā-Toi
4 weeks ago
Good news!***Motutapu-Rangitoto stoat incursion update***
Breaking news! Last Friday, a stoat was found caught in a DOC150 trap on Motutapu Island. The trap was located in an artificial den using the sonic lure of a recording of juvenile stoats, as well as female stoat-scented bedding. This is the first time DOC has used this type of sonic lure to trap a stoat.
To help us determine if there are other stoat(s) still remaining, the stoat has been sent for DNA analysis to help us compare its genotype with those of scats already found on the islands. We also have two more conservation dog visits booked, and have moved the sonic lure to a new area. We continue to trap and use thermal camera imaging. Ka rawe!
You can read more in our media release here: www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-releases/2021-media-releases/breakthrough-in-motutapu-stoat-hunt/ ... See MoreSee Less
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
Comment on Facebook
Thank goodness!
At long last. What a clever stoat to stay free from all the traps for so long.
Fab news!
Well done and thanks for all that effort