Marine NZ

Tawharanui Crayfish
Video by Steve Hathaway

This video is from Steve Hathaways blog spot and goes with the October 2011 article in the NZ Fishing News. It was shot just before the Tawharanui Marine Park was just about to change it's status to a marine reserve and become NZ's latest MR (the opening was 28th August). There is not much that changes in reality for this MR as it has been a total no take since 1981- the boundaries have changed slightly and now DOC administers it.... the one change that made me want to film this was that there is no feeding of fish and crayfish in a marine reserve, but in a Marine park there is no such rule.... and also Tawharanui has one of the biggest cray populations around, with about 1000 crays per hectare....there are some feisty crays there.
Steve Hathaways blogspot Added: 10/16/2011
Tags: Habitats | Invertebrates | Crayfish | Marine Education | Marine Reserves | Monitoring and Research | Special Places | Tawharanui

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