A typical Nelson day of beautiful blue skies and a howling afternoon sea breeze had once again foiled plans of heading out wide in the bay, in search of an early snapper or
two. With limited boating opportunities, the time seemed right to try our luck in an area I had always fancied giving surfcasting a nudge.
Heading out to a local estuary, we began the short trek to the river mouth, which involved making our way barefoot across seemingly endless stretches of oysters and juvenile
cockles that sought refuge in the shallow estuarine seabed, as well as deep that brought the nagging thought of unsuspecting stingrays sitting directly in our path.
After this little adventure under the glaring sun and already gusting wind, we found ourselves admiring the beautiful view of our fishing spot.
With a shallow bar extending out 20 or 30 metres, a short wade in waist deep water was all it took into the the channel and unexplored waters. With no evidence to suggest we were in a good spot, it came as a bit of a surprise to see my rod buckle and hear a
pathetic little screech as a short burst of line pulled from my reel. After a good
extremely fat and wellconditioned gurnard, to my great excitement. This was only my second gurnard
three plump carrots sitting in the shadow of the rods and it was time to call it a day. 5/0 Black Magic Snapper Snacks and oily strips of jack mackerel was the go-to for about perfect, with a new memory banks and a species successfully targeted and caught.
Windy days aren’t all bad and they often force you to try new areas and techniques that you wouldn’t usually consider if taking the boat out was an option.
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How on earth do you take the ocean’s temperature and could it help us better understand and manage the health of our fisheries? Carol Scott believes so, thanks to…
The Moana Project is a 5-year $11.5 million Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment (MBIE)
Endeavour Ocean research initiative, spearheaded by MetOcean Solutions, the oceanographic division of the New Zealand MetService. It aims to improve understanding of coastal ocean circulation, connectivity and marine heatwaves to provide information that supports New Zealand’s seafood industry.
The Moana Project has five major components: Ocean observations, Modelling Ocean currents, Connectivity of kai moana species, Cross cultural ocean knowledge, and Benefits & Impact.
Recently, marine heatwaves have hit New Zealand waters leading to temperatures well above normal. These higher temperatures may impact fish populations, and it is uncertain how deep the marine heatwaves extend or how exactly they a ect fished species.
Like atmospheric weather forecasting, ocean models need direct and real observations to improve forecasts. Weather stations feed information into weather forecast models, but ocean models lack observations, particularly below the surface and near the coast. Like weather forecasts, individual temperature observations are used to improve ocean models, but where these
observations were made are not shown on the forecasts.
The Ocean observations team collects and collates historical and near-real-time ocean temperature and salinity measurements. The team led by Dr Julie Jakoboski has two main goals: Using a ordable novel technology to get more observations in New Zealand’s coastal seas; and, making existing ocean observations available to everyone whenever possible.
The ocean observation component is looking to improve the understanding of, and ability to predict, the ocean dynamics that support our blue economy, but more data is required. In order to do that, a small,
smart temperature sensor (Mangōpare sensor) has been developed by Nelsonbased technology company ZebraTech.
The project relies heavily on the commercial fishing sector to attach the devices to their gear. The sensor’s sleek design allows it to be attached to almost all types of fishing gear, including pots, trawl nets and longlines. The sensors measure temperature, depth, time and position at regular intervals. They create detailed vertical temperature profiles by measuring every 1m depth between the surface and 200m, every 4m between 200m and 1000m on the way up and down and every 5mins while at a constant depth (such as in a pot, on a line, or similar stationary gear).
Mangopare sensor
Source: Moana Project media
Source: Moana project media
When the sensor is hauled aboard, it automatically o oads data to a counterpart deck box. This data is then uploaded online to ZebraTech’s cloud server and transferred to a secure MetOcean database to be assimilated into the models.
To date (Sept) there has been great participation in the project with the following collected:
• Moana profiling systems on fishing boats: 29
• Total deployments: 3592
• Total number of temperature measurements: 1.6 million
• Most measurements from one sensor: 15,511
• Time spent underwater by all sensors: 1006 days Deepest measurement recorded: 1497m
This information has been sourced from the Moana Project webpage which can be found at www.moanaproject.org
Deckbox used to pick up data o oad from the sensor
Source: Moana project media
Many a year ago, when my boys were too small to tolerate a big day out involved by meeting our crew on the last part of the day.
buckets and towels and we would head to the reserve at Taieri Mouth to meet the men coming home over the magical spot with no cell phone reception, swift water, peace and plenty of wildlife. The boys would happily play in the river, catch crabs and
shallows to pass the time. Eventually, small dots would emerge on the horizon and gradually come into view as a wide array of different
way up the river to the ramp.
My husband would nose into the bank, where the water was deeper and we’d exchange the truck keys for
back from the reserve, past to the large gravel car park with the boat ramp, where a hive of activity would ensue either side of the low tide.
On this particular outing, my parents were visiting, so Dad went for the early start mum enjoyed a leisurely start and picnic with the boys and me. Uncle Barry had taken a crew in his new Stabi, as well as the crew in our boat, so a bit of a queue formed at the ramp waiting for their turn to pull up onto the dry. Barry and
shallows and Barry went to fetch the truck, while Gary held the boat. The big old vessel that pulled up ahead of them rather distracted my
poor mother who copped an eyeful of the captain’s naked, bright white rear, as he bent over peeling off his wetsuit oblivious to an audience!
Meantime Gary was guiding the boat onto the trailer and managed to fall into a hole someone had revved out while trying to manoeuvre their boat onto a trailer. He completely disappeared except for his hat and the boat gently glided away downstream! Back he came for another
attempt and fell into the same hole a second time.
We all had a good laugh before Barry realigned the trailer to aid Gary’s efforts. Once up on the dry, it was our turn.
Just as our boat was nosing
the day. The small boat and trailer at the end of the car park broke free from its vehicle and gathered pace, freewheeling back in a direct line for Uncle Barry’s Stabi! There was plenty of yelling
Coverage from Cape Farewell in the south to Cape Egmont in the north, and the east from Cape Palliser to Cape Campbell. Most of the Marlborough Sounds, Golden Bay, Tasman Bay , Wellington and Cook Strait. At times. This channel may be workable outside these perimeters.
Channel 04 – Drumduan.
Covers Tasman Bay and the western d’Urville area.
Permanently linked to both channels 60 and 65.
This means that any transmission made on channel 04 is heard simultaneously on both channels 60 and 65 and vice versa.
Channel 60 – Mt. Burnett
Covers Kahurangi Point in the west, all of Golden Bay and the western side of d’Urville Island.
Channel 60 is permanently linked to channel 04 (and subsequently to channel 65) so any transmission made on channel 04 is heard on channel 04, 60, and 65 as well.
from many people, the only two who weren’t saying anything were Gary and Barry, poised like wrestlers anticipating the impact of the runaway with Barry’s Stabi. Mercifully the trailer turned gracefully on a slight uphill, allowing many hands to bring the runaway under control.
Thankfully the remainder of landing and driving home went very smoothly and concluded another fantastic adventure at the Taieri Mouth boat ramp.
Channel 63 – Mt. Kahikatea.
Covers Queen Charlotte Sound, Port Underwood, Cook Strait, south to Cape Campbell, Kapiti and Mana and also parts of Kenepuru and Pelorus Sounds. This channel is good for Wellington approaches but not good within Wellington Harbour. (Mariners are advised to cancel Trip Reports at Barrets Reef buoy).
Channel 65 – Paradise Reserve
Covers Kenepuru and Pelorus Sounds, Havelock, d’Urville, western Cook Strait, parts of Tasman Bay, Golden Bay and large sections of Queen Charlotte Sound.
Channel 66 – Mt. Stokes
Coverage area is similar to Channel 01. This repeater is for commercial users only and is not operator monitored.
Channels 01 and 63 are linked for the marine forecasts only and one operator monitors both channels.
Channels are monitored 0700 hrs to 2200 hrs all year round
Blair delved into his creel of experience to snag
with a thud, just ahead of an early season rainbow trout. The indicator closes in on the dark shape and suddenly it disappears. Strike! As my rod comes up high into the air, I hear a sickening crack. I don’t want to look but in my head I know what’s happened.
A broken rod is something none of us want on the opening day of the season, the tranquility of unspooked stream is replaced by over just as it started?’’ Not being one to give up so which was still hooked and had rushed off downstream.
back into the river without a second thought.
Time to think out of the box. Whipping the broken section back on was not going to work. The rod had
snapped two-thirds of the and broken length into my pack and attempted to cast double haul the line just far enough in order to reach the but certainly doable.
I wandered up to the next pool, quietly confident with my now halved-stick. The first cast flew in like I was fishing with the full 9ft rather than the 6ft I now held. The five fish in the current were not going to be picky, I knew that much.
A few casts later, one of and my indicator sank. With no tip to strike with,
another 4lb rainbow dancing across the top of the water, obviously upset about the fact he had been fooled by
laughed, this was a bit more entertaining than usual. The trout scampered away back to his house much wiser
more out of the same pool using the mangled rod, with this new half-rod they had never seen.
from this experience is when all seems lost, there is seemingly always light at about ready to turn around and call it a day but relying
would still be able to catch half-rods more often!
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She’s a weirdo, has been for the past 15 years or more. I don’t know how we put up with her but we have. She was born into our care, one chosen from a litter of eight, a speck of white on her chest the only thing that differentiated her from her black and tan littermates.
Speck was strange from the get-go but she did nothing wrong. She never bonded with Poss, she bonded with her older brother Cruz. Wherever Cruz went, Speck went. He was bold, friendly and brilliant. She was shy, totally unsociable and average. Together they were a special team that caught pigs where others failed.
When Cruz passed on Speck was lost. Her world imploded and she had no option but to bond with Poss. Now 10-years-old she had to develop a personality and accept younger dogs as her off-siders–not that she couldn’t do the entire job on her own!
At 12 Speck got pregnant
The equivalent of an elderly spinster landed with a young woman’s burden; the pregnancy was unplanned and unfair.
At 14 Speck caught her her nickname was Grandma.
Kim SwanAt 15 Grandma potters about with faded eyes and minimal hearing. She is in good health but her days are numbered. We’ve discussed her future, Poss and I. When does he make the call? Before another long cold winter? Or when her arthritis steals her mobility and her joy for living? Soon we say, soon, because she’s becoming even more addled and odd than usual.
Perhaps, we say, it will be her time when she no longer looks forward to her dinner. We’ll accept her odd, her addled and her old-age until she no longer wags her tail and accepts her meat treats with gusto.
But then all that changes.
One day Poss takes Speck and her old Huntaway buddy for a gentle stroll after he’s hunted the young teamsters. Somewhere new to sniff the pit-stops—an outing—an affectionate and kind-hearted gesture towards the elderly pair. But Speck vanishes. One moment she’s there, next moment her and her little paw prints have disappeared.
Poss searches for her at once. He barks-up the Huntaway to bring her back. He calls. He drives all about but Speck is nowhere to be found.
By nightfall Speck is still missing.
The following day Speck has not come back to the track, nor to the food left for her nor to the entry-point gate. We are distraught. Has she tottered off and died? Has she blindly got herself trapped behind a blackberry bramble jungle, or a steep drop, or fallen in the creek and drowned? We call and whistle and drive all we can but she is deaf and cannot hear us.
The thought of Grandma slowly perishing, possibly within cooee of the track, is too much to bear. Many a tear is shed.
Day three and Poss determinedly walks every ridge, every gully and every track and trail. He takes the youngsters to leave as much scent as possible. All day he trudges, calling till he is hoarse. Speck does not respond. Poss leaves the forest, certain his old dog is dead. He comes home, shakes his head and we hug and cry. This is no way for an old dog to go.
With a bucket of dog tucker in-hand, Poss takes the youngsters back to their kennels. He is a broken man. But there, curled up asleep in the grass, is Grandma!
Fourteen kilometres from where she disappeared Grandma is home. The doddery old dog who can barely walk the small loop around the house paddock has completed a Captain Tom-styled-marathon on tarseal roads.
Speck has done the entire journey under cover of darkness, unseen by residents and road-users. She has passed numerous households, with their strange smells and their
barking dogs. She has many a single-lane bridge. How did she know which way to go? Or how far to go? She did not know she was almost there—no one to say, “Halfway now.”
No one to say, “Almost there, just a little further.”
She just had to keep limping along slowly, hopefully, till she smelt a familiar environment. It is an incredible journey,
completed successfully by a grandma-dog whose faculties and physicality are seriously diminished.
Footsore and exhausted, when Speck is woken she accepts her dinner with a wagging tail, peering with foggy eyes at her master. She’s not ready to leave us yet, and we’re not ready for her to be gone either. Time now for her to rest in peace but here at home and not in pig dog heaven.
Navico has announced a partnership with the electric powerboating championship, scheduled to kick off in early 2023 with up to 12 teams set to race on a tight, technical course reaching speeds up to 50 knots (58mph; 93km/h). The announcement coincides with the E1 Series unveiling RaceBird electric powerboat in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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new Racebird set to electrify spectators
partnership and to be part of the development process towards designing and producing the most advanced electric race boats in the world,” said Knut Frostad, CEO of journey is quickly taking hold in the boating industry perfect platform to raise the bar around innovation and encourage action in marine conservation and sustainability.”
is designed to create powerboat racing championship, with competition held close to shore in urban areas featuring the RaceBird, a hydrofoil-type boat now under development for use in the series. The RaceBird was designed by SeaBird
Technologies and Victory Marine and features an electric outboard motor, enclosed safety canopy and hydrofoil technology. The boats will be powered by a 35kWh battery from Kreisel
peak power output, with a projected top speed of 58mph (93 km/h). Using innovative hydrofoil technology, the RaceBird powerboats will rise high above the water’s surface, allowing for minimum drag and maximum energy
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Captain Cook in the 1770’s. It is actually a member of species in New Zealand, but only two dine on humans. The others prefer penguins, bats and seals.
smell to detect their prey. Only the female bites, using her saw-like jaws to stab the skin, creating a pool of blood, which she laps up with her tongue. Her saliva contains an anticoagulant which also causes the irritation. The female needs the blood to produce her eggs, which she lays in fast males congregate in shady humid bushy areas and live off sap and nectar.
To avoid detection, cover as much skin as is comfortable colour clothes: yellow, green, grey and white. On exposed skin, wear a repellent such as essential oils of citronella and lemon grass and/or manuka: put
of water and spray on clothes
and exposed skin. When bitten, don’t scratch, as this increases the off your skin will cause less irritation than squashing the little suckers, but it’s not half are lured in by the smell of their squashed mates—but then, you get to kill more of the blighters.
recently, Peter Anthony posted this message, “Hi guys. New here. Where are some good spots for surfcasting close to Nelson?”
With good snapper catches being reported in Tasman Bay, interest in surfcasting had been piqued and many newcomers to Nelson have been asking for information on Facebook re possible surfcasting spots handy to the city.
On the Nelson Tasman Fishing Facebook page
that Tahunanui’s Back Beach, accessed from Parker’s Cove at the end of Parker’s Road, is the ideal spot to enjoy Nelson’s surfcasting. Handy to town, no snags, snapper and rig there and a pleasant place to be.
Labour Weekend. A 6.00am by this time. Two rods out, one baited with prawn on a pulley rig and the other with a two-hook clipped down ledger rig, baited with squid
and pilchard.
snapper with these lines in the water. On this occasion, no luck, but a few pleasant hours spent as the sun came up, with a red glow over the hills behind Nelson.
minutes from my home on the Tahunanui hills.
There is a roomy carpark at Parker’s Cove and from there a few minutes’ walk across the sand to the channel,
few hours after. As you are sharing this beach with dog walkers, keep an eye on your baits, hooks and gear, as a lot of dogs will visit you for a sniff.
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There is no bad day to go hunting, but you could say some are not ideal. One day over winter there was one such day, rain, wind and the temperature hovering
As I was suffering a bit of cabin fever, I decided to rug up and go for a hunt, as I reasoned it was a chance to
Thermotough puffer.
It was only a short drive to a regular hunting spot that would see me do a beds and bush. To be fair, I the bush bit as the rain had increased noticeably!
passed slowly as the cold bit
my ungloved hands but, at least, my body was nice and warm. Then the rain stopped and was replaced by snow. I could not believe it, I was 300 metres above sea level and it was snowing! That sealed it, I was cutting the trip short and retracing my steps to the ute, after I had a particular spot as I am about so I get a great view through
While scanning the all thoughts of cold hands disappeared as I spied a stag heading for the shelter of the bush. He was not alarmed so I had a couple of minutes spare before he would
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disappear. With a round safely in the chamber of the .243, I lay down on the snowy ground to get a steady
scope nicely and a shot to the chest had him stumbling towards the bush. Erring on the cautious side, I gave him another one and it was game over.
The climb down the steep slope to him was best forgotten, as half way I slipped and put my hand into a onga onga bush. At least now I had another reason not to dwell on cold hands, as the stinging and numbness was so much more interesting!
at the true height of the
would not have seen the found him half submerged in heaving, dragged him clear butchering began.
range organic meat and the head as a memento, I ute and the warmth of the heater. By the time I got home, warmth had returned to my hands and, apart from the pain from the onga onga, the world was a better place. As I have always said, it is the hard hunts you will remember the longest and I can assure you, this one will bring a smile to my face for years to come.
The news that Daiwa has released its new Certate SW to the market will be music to is its reputation in the high-end spin reel game.
The Certate SW shares its monocoque body with the famous 20 Saltiga. The system does not require a body cover, instead using an engine plate to screw directly to the single-piece body, removing the requirement of a traditional side plate and screw system. It also allows a larger diameter drive gear (the same as the 20 Saltiga) to be installed which reduces the amount of wear and increases winding
power. Combined with a Magseal line roller and body, the result is a lightweight reel with strength and water-resistance.
Sharing the same redesigned drag as 20 Saltiga, Certate SW’s multilayer carbon drag delivers outstanding performance and durability. The new washer design combined with the aluminium drag knob increases heat dissipation, improving drag performance under heavy load.
The resulting package is at the pointy end of high-performance reels, and ranges from $999-$1099.
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The Wild Twins by Amber and Serena Shine – the twins share their most extreme achievements, the secrets behind their strength and endurance, and advice on living life to its fullest. With go-getter attitudes, perseverance and fearlessness, these inspiring sisters are all about getting outdoors and reaching your potential - returning home covered in mud and with a story to tell.
Waiuku with the bush and mountains in sight. Together they've:
“These new jigs have been designed
jigs have a sharp side to side darting action
as well. By lifting the rod quickly then dropping the rod tip down slowly the
this will keep the jig in the bite zone for a longer period of time and suddenly
• enjoyed hunting adventures in New Zealand
• run the world's highest marathon on Mount Everest
• walked jaguars in the Amazon
• sailed treacherous seas from Hawai'i to San Francisco
• navigated ice falls while climbing Mount Cook
• raced 322 kilometres on a dogsled
• survived naked in the African wilderness for twenty-one days on the hit Discovery show Naked and Afraid.
pieces.
midnight, although it was hard to tell on this moonless night, with nothing but the endless African wilderness surrounding us. Carried by the wind, we could just make out the roar of a twigs snap just outside our realised a large wild animal was circling Amber and me.
prayed it was not a lion or hunted.
for the next movement, which would give away the creature’s position. My heart pounded and those few moments seemed to last an eternity. Amber and
need to say a word. With that glance we were saying to each other, ‘Be ready for the charge!’
We were in this together how ridiculous this sounds, given we only had a machete and a bow with three arrows, but, in the heat of the moment, we had to back against anything with four legs, with our bare feet in the thorn-ridden wilderness.
and Amber grabbed an arrow in one hand and a burning in the other.
The close howl of a hyena vibrated through the air and my heart pounded clean out of my chest. With its powerful, wide jaw and thick neck, the hyena would have no problem ripping us to
and our boma of spiky
the only things stopping it from attacking us. My more movement close by. Another hyena was circling in. How much danger lurked further out in the shadows?
there a pack of hyenas waiting for a meal of fresh meat?
We cursed the darkness; the moon wouldn’t be out until the early hours, so we couldn’t see anything beyond the small ring of
Fear, which had made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, slowly transformed with the danger we were in. We were sitting prey being stalked by predators.
My eyes were wide and
calculated what we could do to fend off the growing threat. Realistically, our machete and broad-tip arrows would be no match for a single hungry hyena, let alone a whole pack of them.
Near our boma stood a tree with branches just thick enough to hold our weight; we could climb it—not to escape a lion or leopard— but we might just manage to get of reach of a hyena. The tree was covered in thorns and looked impossible to climb but, given the choice of that or being attacked by a time.
We had to scare off the hyenas before they became brave enough to breach the barrier of our boma, and realise we were easy pickings. Hardly able to contain our adrenaline, we readied ourselves and, on onto our small metal pot.
also open up more opportunities to catch other species such as hapuku, bass, and bluenose.
I was amazed at how many snapper I caught on the 210g and 250g jigs, and if you haven’t seen it yet on YouTube, check mark.
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The metal-on-metal sound cracked violently into the night, deafening me for a few seconds. Amber shouted aggressively and waved a sent sparks through the air. Over the commotion, we heard yelping and snarling, then the rushed movement of wild animals scurrying off. By the light of Amber’s burning branch, we could just make out the outline of two hyenas disappearing into the darkness. Their sheer size
With adrenaline still pumping, we looked at each
other with relief. We had deterred them this time, but would they be back? Were they only metres away, waiting for their chance to circle in again? Would our attempts at fending them off be successful in the nights to come? Given this was our
would we be faced with in order to survive?
(Edited) extract from The Wild Twins by Amber and Serena Shine.
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In the small seaside town of Riverton sits a humble Kiwi business that has been maximising the value of pāua shell for more than 30 years.
Purchased from a commercial pāua diver back in the 90s, Ocean Shell owner, Bruce Shields, says the site is a far cry from its early days when it consisted of a single, rudimentary warehouse, with no shell processing or manufacturing functionality.
“It wasn’t anything like what we do now, but it was a start,” says Bruce. “My brother Richard and I began the business with a focus on pāua shell. Then we got into buying mother of pearl from the Pacific Island pearl farmers in Tahiti, Northern Australia and Indonesia.”
Bruce and his team have bought, dried, graded and sold more than 5500 tonnes of pāua shell since the operation began. Today, Ocean Shell is the largest trader of pāua shell both domestically and internationally— purchasing more than 90 percent of New Zealand’s commercially harvested pāua shell each year.
No part of the pāua goes to waste. It is the hallmark of Bruce’s business—sharing the ocean’s beauty in a sustainable way.
“We recognise shells are a limited resource,” Bruce says. “Our philosophy is that when we buy shell, we have to be able to deal with all of it, not just the best parts. We are always aiming for zero waste in our operation.”
Local pāua shell constitutes 30 to 40 percent of the 500 tonnes of total shell that Ocean Shell handles each year.
“That’s the amount that would otherwise be wasted if operations like ours didn’t exist,” says Bruce.
The pāua shell is purchased from commercial divers who land the shellfish for its high-value meat—most of which comes from Southland, Kaikoura, Marlborough, the Wairarapa and the remote Chatham Islands.
Only pāua that meet the Minimum Legal Size of 125mm or more are taken, leaving the smaller juvenile pāua in the water to reproduce and keep the stock healthy. It is considered one of the most sustainable methods of fishing.
“These divers and fishermen aren’t
harvesting the shellfish purely for the decorative shell—the shell is simply a by product and that is what we are adding value to,” says Bruce.
“We are pleased to be a more significant contributor to the pāua industry’s bottom line these days.”
Once the meat has been landed and processed, the shells are sent to the Riverton factory for sorting, which is especially important for meeting di erent market requirements, says Bruce.
“There is a lot of variation to deal with in the quality of not just pāua, but all shells. The colour, the environment it comes from, damage caused by pests like marine worms and so on. But that is what makes each shell unique.
We believe there is a use for each one, no matter how bad its quality. There is value in all of it.”
Even an E-grade—a reject shell— has at least ten percent of its shell that is still useable. These low-quality shells are often suited for fashion jewellery or for lower quality furniture inlay work.
A portion of the sorted pāua shell is sent o shore to be formed into sheets of raw pāua veneer. It is then sent back to New Zealand to be processed further at the Riverton factory. Processed shell materials are an increasing part of Ocean Shell’s business and are sold under its Lumea brand by Bruce’s daughter, Nina, and her team.
Their pāua veneer has become a soughtafter material in the Middle Eastern market, where it is primarily used for upmarket inlay in luxurious hotels and palaces for decorative panels and furniture.
“The Emirates Palace Project in Abu Dhabi have very talented craftspeople designing and inlaying our veneer to make decorative panels for their interior fit outs,” says Bruce.
“We have supplied the project around 2500 sheets of white mother of pearl veneer so far.
It is pretty special to have our shell, all the way from little ‘ole New Zealand, adorning
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palace walls.”
Pāua veneer is also used for the BONZE brand of softhead game fishing lures, and in Europe and Japan, Ocean Shell’s solid shell pāua pieces are used for trout fishing.
Pāua shell was supplied to a mansion in China too, where it was crafted into decorative baulistrade for an ornate staircase.
Bruce says it never fails to surprise him what overseas markets use their pāua shell for.
“Sometimes it is tacky and other times we see spectacular work like the staircase.
Either way, it’s great to see our product reaching all corners of the world.
An unexpected boom in the American
wellbeing market has brought a surge in demand for whole pāua shells too, due to a trend called ‘smudging’.
It is a Native American Indian cultural custom that has become increasingly Westernised, where white sage leaves are burned in shells to cleanse the interior of a home,” says Bruce. “It’s a completely new trend for the shell market that’s almost come full circle from the days when shells were used as ashtrays!”
Ocean Shell has expanded beyond pāua shell and is now considered one of the more significant seashell traders in the world.
“We see ourselves as being in both the
close, disrupting freight and causing fuel costs to spike.
Whether we are coming out of it is a big question mark,” says Bruce. “We have a younger crew here now. They are all really switched on and have a lot of potential. Even so, the business is in a bit of a transition phase.”
His daughter, Nina, is involved too, taking care of the processing and marketing side of the business. Bruce hopes that Nina will take over the reins when it comes time for retirement.
“But with Covid, everything is up in the air,” he says.
“I just hope the business survives this rough patch so it is here for another 30 years and remains a strong family business.”
The lack of tourism has also hit the factory hard.
“Pre-Covid, our Riverton factory made giftware and souvenir items for the tourist market. Once the borders closed, that was the end to that part of our business.”
Sta numbers reduced from 22 to just 12.
raw shell business and the shell materials business now,” says Bruce.
New varieties of shell have been introduced to their trade, including trochus shell from the Pacific Islands, green snail shell from Japan, black mother of pearl from Tahiti and abalone shell from Chile. Trochus shell is supplied purely for manufacturing buttons and mother of pearl is supplied to luxury-brand watch companies in Switzerland to produce highquality watch dials.
“We recently started buying shell out of abalone farms in South Africa too,” says Bruce. “Our operation stretches around the world.”
Only a small portion of whole shells from international sources go directly to the Riverton factory. The rest are moved from their island location through a complex web of logistics and handling to reach processing facilities in South-East Asia.
“Logistics are arguably the biggest part of the business,” says Bruce.
“You are relying on a chain of transportation that can be haphazard and high in risk. There is a lot of paperwork that comes with trading shells and a lot of red tape too. Then there are the customs processes, sustainability certificates and language barriers.
To get a shell from a far-flung atoll in Tahiti to a shell factory in Vietnam takes considerable organisation and significant cost.”
Those costs have worsened significantly this year, with lockdowns forcing factories to
Demand for pāua shell jewellery has gone too, says Bruce, as there is an absence of travellers passing through airports or visiting souvenir shops to sell to.
The only silver lining has been an increase in demand for shell generated from online sales. Through its Lumea Brand, Ocean Shell has supplied more pāua shell to craft markets in the USA since the pandemic. It’s one of their biggest new customers, says Bruce.
“Traditionally, very few shops around the world sold shells before,” says Bruce.
“Now, we are seeing more retailers transitioning to online, in part due to Covid forcing people to shop remotely and through other means. That has increased the ability of everyday people to access shells like pāua.
People are buying small packets of pāua, tumbled pieces that we make here in Riverton, for craft projects. We pack them into small, half-kilogram bags, then ship them o to the States where they are distributed or broken up further.
Online shopping has been a real life saver for the shell industry in times like these.”
Despite the tough times, Bruce says the satisfaction he gains from the job remains
thesame.
“What always excited me in this industry is seeing clever craftspeople and designers using our material. get a lot of satisfaction out that, seeing what can be done with the humble shell.
“It’s a testament to the shell’s journey too. All the hard work – the handling, processing, transportation and trading of the shell – to reveal its beauty and share it with the world.”
November is one of my favourite months for trout
halcyon month of May, when insects are hatching and the trout are busy feeding on
Before moving to New a member of the Leek
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struck with great gusto, but unfortunately, the trout weighed only a couple of ounces and whistled past my right ear at great speed! My friend, Jim Wilson, who taught me this technique found this highly amusing. One of my greatest
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Though this is a little off-topic, I would like to recount a highly amusing incident that happened early one sunny Sunday
morning in August 1984, when my mucker, Alan
River Churnet, at a stretch that runs parallel with the Caldon Canal through the Churnet Valley in Staffordshire. The following is taken from an entry in my Churnet at Basford Hall, Alan got his favourite pike plug caught up a tree on the far bank. After much fruitless effort in its retrieval, he decided that its salvation could only be brought about by swimming into the river and retrieving it by hand. As it was 8.00am and nobody around, he stripped naked and swam across the river to the far side next to the canal tow path.
As he was in the process of recovering his new plug, two elderly gentlemen, innocently enjoying an early
morning stroll, were heard only a few yards from where Alan was crouching stark naked. He immediately hid behind a bush, but realising that they were going to see him anyway, he stepped out in front of them, while covering his private parts with his hands, then asked them, “Do you have any women with you?”
The look of shock and horror on these poor fellows faces as they recoiled back from the depravity of a naked youth stepping out from behind a bush and enquiring about women caused me to collapse with laughter.’
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What has happened to Fish Mainland?
We are facing some of the harshest changes/cuts to rec.
and not a whisper from Fish Mainland to advise rec.
and to get their submissions in.
The proposal is to lump all species into the daily catch bag, so if you use ‘couta, tuna, or even spotties, they will count as part of your daily bag. Even worse, they want to standardise the
bag will drop from 30 to 20
drop to ONE (in line with Fiordland),
red moki would become no take and perch would be 20 (both in line with Kaikoura), and so on. Remember,the Ministry NEVER increases your allowed take, so would not increase daily bags to match other areas. and should be treated as such. We must say no to
don’t match the true situation and are very selective to try and implement unnecessary harsh restrictions.
sneak this through while the whole country is obsessed
Bill HartleyLynne the Ruthless is calling me a grumpy old man more than ever. I suppose I’ve always been a bit grumpy and there’s stuff all I can do about getting old so, perhaps, just perhaps, she’s right. Not that I’ll admit to it until I get a fair bit older than I the way things are going, if I am becoming a grumpy old man, who the hell could blame me?
Just look at our society. We have the vast majority of people doing or trying to do the right thing by getting a vaccination or, even if they don’t believe in it, obeying
all the other rules like social distancing, staying in their bubbles and generally not doing anything else to endanger other people. Then, we have the others who are really a waste of perfectly good oxygen doing their own thing and giving rest of us.
What these scumbags need is the full weight of the law coming down on their heads, hard enough to sit them on their backsides.
These idiots come in all types, from gang members to the head of a, to use the word very loosely, church, cult. They do have one thing in common, they are mostly order. They thumb their nose because they know bloody well bugger all is going to happen to them. How about a mandatory three months in a jail cell? That would give them time to think and also give the rest of society the time for their covid infection to run its course. They mightn’t even survive it but no, Jacindarella says let’s be nice, let’s educate them, let’s
even reward them if they do what the rest of us have done and get a bloody covid shot. Where’s my feed of KFC or concert ticket? Yeah right.
Another thing I’m grumpy about is three people died on the Manukau Bar recently. No, I’m not going to be a smartarse like some idiot on Facebook who said we’d better be careful or Jacinda will ban bar crossings.
have lost loved ones too
been reported on national media they were not wearing life jackets. Why, why would alone one as unforgiving as the Manukau and not wear thing or the old she’ll be right, it won’t happen to me? Sadly, for the three men and their families it did happen. This leads to another thing making me a grumpy old man. We are a boating nation. Well, over 20 percent of us go on the
Rescues and searches cost millions every year. This bloody government dishes out millions to every no hoper around but would they ever consider taking the GST off or, better still, subsidising life jackets, emergency locater beacons of course they wouldn’t but they’ll happily give over two million dollars to a gang drug rehabilitation programme. Wonder why the Ruthless man?
They were two days ‘out of the box.’
The sort of days you recall in the darker months of winter to help stave off cabin where that expression came from, you might say the days were fresh, new and very
to the largest lump of water on the Coast, Lake Brunner, a favourite haunt of many, including a gaggle of Lesser Spotted jet skiers.
The nose of the Osprey was pointed toward the big water but there was no
need to leave the bay, as the lake was up, with enough reeds amongst the trees.
Trout were cruising in the shallows over territory that
Simpson—“Mmmm worms, mmmmm beetles!”
in the clean, clear water, even swimming past under
where possible and the paddle where that was more practical, then even hauled myself along using tree branches and bunches of reeds. The routine was to get a good vantage point, tie up to a tree, then watch and wait—but not for long.
Like silent running submarines they emerged. Seemingly from nowhere, with slow waving tails, intent on getting as much grub as possible from the newly inundated environment.
When surrounded by trees and reeds there is little room for a back cast so rolling dapping—anything to get the
tree hugger to retrieve the of angling were enjoyed—
the dummy, not hooking up thing out of their mouths, plus at times being ignored because the trout wanted a second course of what wasn’t it!
around the corner and across in front of the boat at the same time.
trouble.”
on the bottom ready for a twitch to get their attention, a nice technique but the twitch sent it into a lump of
tree root—had to laugh!
The boat was moved around from spot to spot and in one possie there were four shallow, one false move or a muffed cast and they’d high tail away.
Towards the end of the expedition a resolution was passed to return the following day for more fun.
Next morning my intention was to visit a more remote part of the lake to again get amongst the trees. Got a water boatman out for a swim but it was totally
was said to work in the high country but it hadn’t, so on it went for a swim in the low country and nek minute, there was a 4-5 pounder zooming around on my very tight line. Another C&R but it almost needed CPR, as it was reluctant to stay upright and swim away. However, with encouragement, it went off again—very satisfying. caps so it was into the lee of an arm to continue the enjoyment, then later, as the distant rumble of hunger was headed in. Two days wellsavoured during the darker days of the chilly season.
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Alan Key, who is a Fish Mainland Board of Director, self-reporting would greatly improve management decision making by reducing reliance on anecdotal information about what was caught, where and when.”
Geoff Rowling, who is a Fish Mainland member, says, “Fishers’ reported data would help take a lot of the ‘guess work’ out of decisions that impact on them. The self-reporting system provides them the opportunity to participate in sustainable management by putting forward valued data that only they can provide.”
Fish Mainland is working with Plink Software in Nelson to develop the selfreporting system. The CEO of Plink Software, Jeremy Banks, says, “The system is designed as a user-friendly
effort. The system is being
The data provided by also includes self-reporting of any marine mammal observations during the comments,” says Jeremy. The self-reporting system is designed in accordance with the Research and Science
New Zealand Fisheries can be used to calculate the following for each blue cod area:
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reporting system can provide samples of reported data that provide broad signals, or indicator statistics, regarding trends in catch and effort for both targeted blue cod and bycatch within the different areas. The aim is for the data to greatly enhance what we know about the health
since blue cod is vulnerable to localised depletion”, says Jeremy.
Recently, Alan, Geoff and Jeremy trialled the App in Tasman Bay outside Motueka. Alan said, “While the App performed very things that warrant minor changes in reporting. For example, we found there isn’t any value in taking images of undersized blue
reduce mortality if their size is estimated and they are released at the water line.”
“We anticipate the App within the next month or so. The next trial phase is to provide the App to the Fiordland Marine Guardians, groups that understand
the value of their reporting and are prepared to report regularly and accurately.
in discrete areas, there are better opportunities to assess potential underlying biases in the data,” says Jeremy.
“The real carrot for the groups participating in the upcoming trial is that they
codes, so they regularly receive reports on their members’ collated catch and effort information for each blue cod area. While the data will report the GPS are caught, the location will be reported by the blue cod area. So, your favourite revealed,” says Alan.
The government and police have changed the way they and the holders, after the Christchurch shooting. I believe this was a cover to hide the bad performance and ‘lies’ right after the event. While everyone knew they weren’t as clean as they tried to convey, the media stuck to the story and backed them all the way.
which has been followed by more bans and what they liked to call a ‘buy-back’, but that was crap—they never place. Millions spent and wasted.
Then came the policy change to it being a privilege
To some, that might not be a big thing from—a right to a privilege—but it is huge. Privileges can be cancelled or simply withheld by those who grant of them. Rights should be secure.
Why the big change in
thinking and the way honest people are being treated?
The tin hat side of me has to think that they are doing this as part of a larger plan. The UN have made it very clear they don’t like civilians
and this government seems to also think this way. So this becomes an issue about what the government thinks and wants—ideology— which doesn’t bode well for us in the long term.
right as an honest person to
and its citizens and to help improve things for both. Huge changes to our civil rights have a long-lasting effect and need to very closely scrutinised. Changes
have gone out for public consultation and submission; a proper one, not one of their half-assed ones, but a full six months, with an open mind by those running it.
asking for a privilege. What right does our Government have to arbitrarily remove the rights of our citizens?
The rights of New Zealand citizens should be guarded very closely, by both its citizens and the people voted in to govern the country. They are meant to be looking out for both the country
As we have seen with Auckland, a knife was publicly used to stab a number of people, again it wasn’t a New Zealander but someone allowed to stay in our country, who even had a 24-hour watch on him. Yet he still managed to attack innocent shoppers in a supermarket. How is it we keep letting these people in, and even when they know they are dangerous we let
law changes are going to be rushed through this time? And who are they going to be aimed at?
Government meddling shooting from the lip?
Always keen to get amongst the snapper, I’m prepared to try new things and not frightened to take advice. The lads at Capital Fishing are a good source of information, on both gear and rigs to use but they are also happy to steer you in the right direction.
west coast very often but the lads gave me a heads ups on a good drift to try. Still water and a skim of cloud made for a pleasant outing and in 95m off the back of the
320 GT reel matched to my Penn 6 foot rod. Terminal tackle consisted of a pink 6/0 Snapper Flasher rig.
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Widespread misunderstanding about the New Zealand fishing industry still exists but employment opportunities are many and varied. No longer is it the domain of the crusty old seafarer, wizened skipper or roughneck crew—those stereotypes have long since been assigned to Davey Jones’s locker. Daryl Sykes explores employment opportunities for young school leavers intent on….
In 2019 I was approached to run a trial career guidance workshop for secondary school students. The Ministry of Education personnel, secondary school teachers and career guidance sta made it clear that they had taken a very narrow view of the fishing industry. They wanted me, as a former professional fisherman, to talk to their students about working on a fishing boat: how did you get the job; what did you have to do; can you make much money? All the very basic stu that completely ignores the full extent of the fishing industry and the scope for students to find their secure and profitable niche either in, around or across it.
If a person has an interest in either academic pursuits or the more physical field work and data collection disciplines, the fishing industry is a very credible career option.
As with most good projects we start at the start and examine the range of essential activities which enable utilisation of fish stock whilst ensuring sustainability. The old adage applies—‘you cannot manage what you do not know’—and there three key streams of work required to produce the information that guides fishery management decision making. Each of those relies on certain skill sets and disciplines, most of which have application across other primary industry sectors.
Field work and data collection
Whilst all those people are measuring, counting, computing, and consulting, someone must be out there catching fish. It is my long experience that good fishermen are born, not made, but it is also my long experience that a good fisherman can learn to be a better—and safer—fisherman. But the fishing industry requires tools of trade as well as catching expertise and the range of support services and activities provides a raft of career opportunities.
Fish won’t jump in the net:
Having a fully found vessel and e cient gear gives any commercial fishermen a head start in the business but then there is the bureaucracy that must be navigated. Knowing and understanding the rules of the game are essential – the fisheries management regime is complicated and demanding. So too are the maritime rules. Basic qualifications are essential, and fishermen literally need to go back to school from time to time as they move through the various industry sectors. The progress from a deckie on an inshore lobster boat to the wheelhouse of a deep-water trawler requires study and dedication. It also provides employment for tutors and examiners.
To acknowledge another old adage—‘there are old fishermen, bold fishermen, but no old, bold fishermen’—it is necessary to learn and put into practice the skills of responsible seamanship.
And when you decide to be a fisherman you know you are choosing to be part of an industry that is under a microscope of public scrutiny—you need to know how to play that game, or at least to do your part in the industry being able to say ‘nothing nasty to see here, move on’.
The employment prospects and career options do not end with the fish on the deck ready to unload. The infrastructure of fish receiving and processing is extensive. So too are the required skill sets. The end game is sustainably harvested, high quality and nutritious seafood. Many good chefs owe their reputations to the raw materials they obtain from the fishing industry.
The catch has no value until it is consumed:
Next time your kids or your grandkids start chatting about what they want to be when they grow up, you can tell them with confidence that there is more to their fish and chip dinners than they probably realise. If they want interesting, varied, well paid and satisfying work, I can recommend their consideration of the fishing industry. After all, it has served me well, and I it, for over 45 years.
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lucky enough to secure one of his last charters.
Our destination was the legendary Three Kings in the far north. Easter weekend 2018 and it was an excited
joined Max in stunning Maunganui to celebrate his 50th birthday. There
for live bait for the trip
were epic. Many PBs were broken as various species
Richard Smedleyand squid were hauled over Pursuit’s gunnels.
For me, the best was saved for last. Heading home we spent a pleasant evening in Spirits Bay using the last the sun set on the day and
mooching in the depths below. After Rick weighed pounds, he declared adventure.
All six of us departed the Pursuit in Maunganui with a certain swagger that had not
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