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Post by em on Mar 12, 2024 13:31:12 GMT 12
The bronzey issue has kept me from jumping in and wiping the algae of the boat . Vis is max 2 metres on the mooring , I like to see them from a distance not at 2 metres away ! They will be there for sure with the eat all you can smorgasbord going on at the moment . It's not just algae, this stuff has been growing on the bottom like crazy this summer, both in the Gulf and up north don't know what it is, not coming from barnacles (plenty of those also in the Bay as usual). Has a reddish brown colour and grows awfully fast View AttachmentYep pulled some of that out of the through hulls and antifoul is only 6 weeks old . Really small lacy seaweed ? |
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Post by em on Mar 12, 2024 13:36:27 GMT 12
There’s also a funky coral worm thing in Whangarei river that grows on anodes and has pink spongy Affro type growth . Had one on the bonding anode when we hauled out and affro part was the size of a basket ball , got water blasted to oblivion before I could take a pic .
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Post by GO30 on Mar 12, 2024 20:11:24 GMT 12
Did someone say Bacon?
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Post by fish on Apr 25, 2024 14:34:06 GMT 12
There are reports (unofficial) that caulerpa has been found at Rakino.
Hardly surprising, but disappointing non the less.
Will be interesting how long it takes for this news to become official.
There is a crowd on Waiheke that want to work out if they can compost it. Currently this is not allowed because it is a controlled organism. They have been told they aren't allowed to. Sounds like the dredged stuff is going to landfill, but unofficially stuff on Aotea (that is Great Barrier for the non-woke) is being composted. I assume that is washed up stuff at a cottage industry scale, as opposed to industrial volume disposal of the stuff.
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Post by ComfortZone on Apr 27, 2024 9:57:03 GMT 12
from this week's SYC Newsletter Caulerpa HarvestingAn area of water north west of Kawau Island, Iris Shoal, will be closed to the public for around two weeks while targeted dredging for invasive seaweed Exotic Caulerpa takes place. The suction dredge trial is being carried out by Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust, in partnership with Biosecurity New Zealand, NIWA and Bay Underwater Services NZ. Detection buoys will be placed around the site while the trial takes place and the public is requested to avoid the area as much as possible.There is no information given yet as to WHEN this takes place but no doubt you will be able to tell by the buoys laid out. Don't know when Ngati Manahuri became "experts" on this. More money for Mook, the $10M man?? |
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Post by fish on Apr 27, 2024 11:23:35 GMT 12
from this week's SYC Newsletter Caulerpa HarvestingAn area of water north west of Kawau Island, Iris Shoal, will be closed to the public for around two weeks while targeted dredging for invasive seaweed Exotic Caulerpa takes place. The suction dredge trial is being carried out by Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust, in partnership with Biosecurity New Zealand, NIWA and Bay Underwater Services NZ. Detection buoys will be placed around the site while the trial takes place and the public is requested to avoid the area as much as possible.There is no information given yet as to WHEN this takes place but no doubt you will be able to tell by the buoys laid out.Don't know when Ngati Manahuri became "experts" on this. More money for Mook, the $10M man?? Who is Mook? I wouldn't mind if Ngati Manahui used some of their Billions to do something useful, instead of just putting their hand out. But I assume BioNZ is actually paying for it. First thought I had was of alarm suction dredging Iris shoal, given the scolly population there. But then I guess if it's got a caulerpa infestation the scollies are at great risk anyway. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Apr 27, 2024 13:53:06 GMT 12
from this week's SYC Newsletter Caulerpa HarvestingAn area of water north west of Kawau Island, Iris Shoal, will be closed to the public for around two weeks while targeted dredging for invasive seaweed Exotic Caulerpa takes place. The suction dredge trial is being carried out by Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust, in partnership with Biosecurity New Zealand, NIWA and Bay Underwater Services NZ. Detection buoys will be placed around the site while the trial takes place and the public is requested to avoid the area as much as possible.There is no information given yet as to WHEN this takes place but no doubt you will be able to tell by the buoys laid out.Don't know when Ngati Manahuri became "experts" on this. More money for Mook, the $10M man?? Who is Mook? I wouldn't mind if Ngati Manahui used some of their Billions to do something useful, instead of just putting their hand out. But I assume BioNZ is actually paying for it. First thought I had was of alarm suction dredging Iris shoal, given the scolly population there. But then I guess if it's got a caulerpa infestation the scollies are at great risk anyway. Terence "Mook" Hohneck, Chair of Ngati Manuhuri Settlement trust. Lives in Rotorua, happy to sell out North Rodney on the new Waste Management tip www.localmatters.co.nz/environment/fury-over-10-million-landfill-backflip/excerpt The new agreement with WM superseded any previous evidence from settlement trust chair Mook Hohneck and trustee Ringi Brown, the document added.
The sudden switch from anti- to pro- has prompted an outpouring of bitterness, scorn and fury from locals and others opposing the dump, with dozens lambasting the decision on social media, calling it nauseating, disgusting, greedy and corrupt, among other things.
Omaha Marae chair Annie Baines said the trust did not speak for the iwi, and branded the decision as heartbreaking and a disgrace.
“Our marae is the only Ngati Manuhiri marae and I can tell you 100% that we are dead against this dump. What these guys [the settlement trust] are doing, I have no idea. It’s a disgrace,” she said.
“A lot of the whanau are in shock. Why? Why would you ever agree to it? We have never had any part of their decision. It’s heartbreaking.”
Wayne Greenwood is chair of Pakiri G Block Ahu Whenua Trust, which represents 217 Maori freehold landowners. He said no authority was given to the NMST to represent them.
“The settlement trust is making decisions without consulting the people, the mana whenua. They are only speaking for themselves,” he said. “We’re a Maori Land Court appointed trust, yet we’re just being worked over by the settlement trust. They have just gone ahead.
“The whole of Pakiri is up in arms about it because we haven’t been consulted.”
Fight the Tip executive member Michelle Carmichael said it was obvious that the environment was far from the leading motivation in the trust’s U-turn. |
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Post by harrytom on Apr 28, 2024 10:31:27 GMT 12
Terrence (HOOK) Hohneck is crook according to a friend . Haha I see you have quoted Wayne Greenwood. Hes a good bugger
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Post by Cantab on Apr 28, 2024 20:23:07 GMT 12
The plan is to fill bags with the bits coming out of the rotary filters, it's going to take a lot of bags. Pretty sure it will also do a pretty good job of chopping the weed into little bits and spilling it all over the place.  |
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Post by fish on Apr 28, 2024 21:27:27 GMT 12
The plan is to fill bags with the bits coming out of the rotary filters, it's going to take a lot of bags. Pretty sure it will also do a pretty good job of chopping the weed into little bits and spilling it all over the place. View AttachmentWonder what was wrong with the geocloth sacks the other guys are using? looked like a simple, self contained process to me. Perhaps if they pumped them up too fast they burst and cause a major spreading event? I would have thought geocloth would have a finer mesh size than a rotary screen. But I guess you can make a rotary screen with any mesh size you want. Just the smaller you go the less flow capacity you have. Definite risk of just chopping the shit up. Where is this one Cantab? |
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Post by Cantab on Apr 29, 2024 12:00:06 GMT 12
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Post by fish on May 12, 2024 12:02:50 GMT 12
  These pictures are getting people excited. Apparently an estimated 90kg of caulerpa - "intercepted by Patukeha Hapu, Ngati Kuta Hapu on water surveillance team and the Bay of Islands Water Taxi.", cause the skipper wouldn't have noticed that lot on his anchor. Omakiwi Cove 10th May. Besides all the hand-wringing - that is clearly causing some logistical issues with anchoring. I'd be surprised if the anchor set in the seabed with that going on, and of course the shear logistics of clearing the anchor once you get it up. |
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Post by dutyfree on May 12, 2024 16:46:21 GMT 12
They were anchoring in the prohibited anchorage area. I assume they were told to move and that came up
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Post by fish on Jun 11, 2024 9:23:30 GMT 12
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Post by GO30 on Jun 11, 2024 11:18:41 GMT 12
There is a word that sums up the Leigh find perfectly.
That word is 'Inevitable'.
But then I was shit at England class so it might not be.
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