Dredging
Recreational fishers support banning scallop dredging
It's scallop season and thousands of recreational fishers want dredging stopped. At a recent AGM of the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council and Legasea, delegates voted to promote low impact scallop… Audio
Sale of West Coast dredging ship 'beginning of end' for harbour
West Coast dredging ship Kawatiri has been used to keep the local port open, but now the Buller District Council has decided to sell it; and one councillor says that decision is the beginning of the… Audio
Marlborough leads on seabed protection
The Marlborough District Council has become the first in the country to include protections for important seabed habitat in its annual plan. Last year a report by marine biologist Rob Davidson found… Audio
Seabed habitat in the Marlborough Sounds is rapidly degrading
A newly released report has found 13 hundred hectares of important marine habitat was destroyed in just four years between 2011 and 2015, more than 71 percent of the area originally surveyed. The… Audio