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Some local landowners surrounding the Whangateau Harbour are upset that mangroves…
Thousands of juvenile parore settle from their planktonic larval phase into the mangroves.…
Large, old established mangroves help protect the shoreline from erosion, but also…
They soon grow into small seedlings which are alternately inundated and exposed by…
Mangroves are important in many ways. They provide shelter for juvenile fish, and…
The mangroves themselves are fun to snorkel around. We have one species in NZ, common…
Yellow-eye mullet, often called sprats, are common in the estuary, where they form…
A strange fish in the Whangateau Harbour is the stargazer. It is an “ambush”…
If you approach very carefully sometimes you can get really close and personal with…
If there were a policy of no-fishing around Horse Shoe Island and the adjacent channel,…
Juvenile trevally also occur in the channel of the Whangateau Harbour, a school of…
The necklace weed bed is a very important nursery for parore. Whangateau supplies…
Whangateau is a popular place to snorkel and learn about estuarine ecology. Here…
The estuary has many millions of cockles and is known for the best cockle resource…
Mangrove areas in the estuary are great for kayaking in shallow water when the tide…
In contrast to the muddy estuaries close to Auckland, sand flats in the upper harbour…
The southern arm of the harbour has a rich mosaic of salt marsh and seagrass habitats,…
The Whangateau Harbour is a small estuary on the east coast out from Warkworth on…
The Whangateau Estuary offers fish like the Yellow Eyed Mullet with fantastic habitat.…
Trevally enter estuaries like this one to feed on crabs and shellfish.
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