Sam Woolford - Marine

Another year has passed since we last had freshly gathered scallops from the Hauraki Gulf on our plates. The Northland and Coromandel scallop fisheries have...

Communities like Mahurangi continue to pay the price for decades of poorly managed fisheries. Right now, we’re dealing with temporary closures to shellfish harvesting, bans...

Tarakihi is a kiwi icon. That’s what makes it so devastating that east coast tarakihi is the latest fish stock to collapse under the outdated...

Common sense has prevailed. For now. The controversial Fisheries Amendment Bill has been put on ice. Last month, Minister for Oceans and Fisheries Shane Jones...

Rock pools are being stripped bare. Our intertidal coastline is under growing pressure, and we can no longer ignore the damage. Local communities have genuine...

When Kiwis care deeply about something, we make ourselves heard. More than 30,000 Kiwis spoke up and made a submission in May opposing the Fisheries...

The Minister for Oceans and Fisheries Shane Jones has been working closely with the commercial fishing industry to cook up a concoction of changes to...

Getting on, under or near the water quiets the everyday noise of life. For many of us, the Hauraki Gulf is filled with memories of...

Being able to step out the door with a bucket and gather pipi used to be one of the simple joys of living near the...

It’s no secret that the Hauraki Gulf is a unique place. So special, in fact, that more than 25 years ago, it was given the...