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local woman has persuaded a group of alleged cockle poachers to return the molluscs to the ocean after confronting them on Cockle Bay beach. The beach is currently in closed season for collection. A 50-cockle seasonal limit is in place at the beach between May and September. Howick Ratepayer and Residents chair Matthew Brajkovich received a call from a woman who had witnessed a group taking cockles during closed season. He advised her to firstly stay safe, then advised her to call the MPI poacher line. She also asked the poachers to put cockles back. Brajkovich said he believed the cockles were returned “after a very long walk out”. In another recent case, Brajkovich says he found three people with two large bags filled with cockles and asked them to return them. “What was really concerning was when I told them to put them back, they dumped all the cockles in the beach rubbish bin,” he says. In another case from December 2019, an honorary fishing officer approached a party who had poached 1800 cockles. The cockles were all returned to the sea. Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross has
Honorary fishing officer returned 1800 cockles collected outside of harvest season. Photo supplied
been championing his case to convince the Minister of Fisheries to close Cockle Bay to all shellfish harvesting for at least five years and delivered a petition to Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash recently.
Nash ordered a new survey of the beach which took place at the weekend, something Ross hopes will “likely see a rahui or ban placed on the collecting of all shellfish”.
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