Twenty-thousand tonnes of mussels are booked to be dropped into Ōkahu Bay as part of an ambitious Ngāti Whātua Ōrakei plan to replenish seabeds that have over the past century been severely depleted.
It's the third such massive drop to have taken place as part of the effort to, as it were, re-mussel 500 square kilometres.
Revive Our Gulf project restoration coordinator - or kairuruku whakahaumanu kaimoana - Peter van Kampen spoke to Susie Ferguson.
