Giving tipa / scallops the best chance to recover

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13:25 on 10 January, 2022

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Scallop Shell. Photo: Bernard Spragg, Flickr CC

Here’s our submission to Fisheries NZ on recommended options for the SCA1 (Northland) and SCA CS (Hauraki Gulf & Coromandel). We request nothing short of a full closure.

The table below from Fisheries NZ shows the extent of the collapse of the scallop fishery under the current ‘management’ approach.

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