Post by fish on Dec 22, 2022 20:16:55 GMT 12
MPI, or Biosecurity NZ (Division of MPI) have actually done their job. Once.
A Cruise ship was barred from entering Milford Sound during to having live snails in its discharge pipes.
The ship had to drop two days off its planned five day itinerary, and has parked out of the EEZ off Tauranga to get commercial divers to give its bum a wipe.
Apparently 6% of international ships have been turned away since Jan 2020, which could go some way to explaining the high freight costs into NZ. Just a shame they didn't start doing their job before we got fan worm, the carpet weed, the white haemaroid thing, the thing invading is it Dusky Sound? The asian paddle crab and a few others I'm sure I've forgotten.
Noting that the ship left Auckland on the 15th Dec, and has only stopped at Brisbane before heading for Milford Sound... Maybe they are Auckland snails trying to escape the pollution of the Waitemata?
www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/130847298/cruise-ship-too-dirty-for-milford-sound-after-sea-snails-found
A Cruise ship was barred from entering Milford Sound during to having live snails in its discharge pipes.
The ship had to drop two days off its planned five day itinerary, and has parked out of the EEZ off Tauranga to get commercial divers to give its bum a wipe.
Apparently 6% of international ships have been turned away since Jan 2020, which could go some way to explaining the high freight costs into NZ. Just a shame they didn't start doing their job before we got fan worm, the carpet weed, the white haemaroid thing, the thing invading is it Dusky Sound? The asian paddle crab and a few others I'm sure I've forgotten.
Noting that the ship left Auckland on the 15th Dec, and has only stopped at Brisbane before heading for Milford Sound... Maybe they are Auckland snails trying to escape the pollution of the Waitemata?
www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/130847298/cruise-ship-too-dirty-for-milford-sound-after-sea-snails-found