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Te Korowai Partners
You will find information and updates from Kaikoura Marine Guardians and the newly formed Fish Mainland recreational community fishers group.
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The name says it all, useful info from other like minded fantastic groups and organisations.
2020 MEETING DATES FOR TE KOROWAI & KAIKOURA MARINE GUARDIANS
TE KOROWAI KAIKOURA MARINE GUARDIANS
4 May 5 May
8 June
6 July
10 August 11 August
7 September
5 October
9 November 10 November
COMMUNITY BASED PAUA RECOVERY EDUCATION PROJECT
This project is funded primarily by the ‘Earthquake Recovery Work’ Fund which was an arm of the ‘Sustainable Farming Fund’ operated by Ministry of Primary Industries. The project started in September 2017 and is due to be completed in October 2020. In addition to MPI, the project is co-funded by Paua 3 Industry Association Incorporated.
The major focus of the project is using aquaculture to enhance local paua populations that have been severely impacted by the effects of the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. The community has been engaged through multi-level syllabus for secondary school education, presentations to key Runanga entities and by providing aids to tertiary education projects.
As some of you may have noticed we are occupying the un-utilised ‘Old Wharf Lockers’ on Avoca St. This has been a great facility provided by the Kaikoura Council free of lease charges for the term of the project. This location has limitations but we are working through these, and simply put there were very few other options. The plant was operational with very little effort and has current resource consents.
Staffing is very important and I’m happy to say that the project is operating very well. From the start of the project I was selected by the ‘Steering Committee’ as Project Manager. For the first two years I tried to do too much solo. However we now have spread the work load and increased project awareness. Together with Rachel Vaughan employed as Project Coordinator there is increased organisation. We have recently employed Robert Paul Wolf, PhD whose doctorate work involved spawning Polychaete (marine worms) species. Paul has introduced a lot of intellectual property into the project and has more good ideas for direction. While Paul’s work on Polychaete species spawning was with different species, there are certain parallels for this project making his knowledge invaluable. Paul is currently working at the old wharf facility in a solo capacity as we are operating at minimum levels under MPI essential service practices. We have approximately 15000 juvenile paua ready for release in the near future.
It is intended that the project explore the benefits of enhancement in various life cycle stages of paua. This includes release 7 days post fertilisation. The benefits will mainly be concluded on cost effectiveness. There is nice interactions with this project and the work that David Schiel is conducting through University of Canterbury and secondary school education.
Recently in term 1, myself and Paul have been delivering syllabus to Years 9 & 10 students at the Kaikoura High School. We have been able to coordinate field trips with University of Canterbury to study transect survey techniques in the field.
Community participation has grown well in the operation of this project over the last year. We have achieved much more in the last 6 months than the first two years. Special thanks to the following for their contributions:
Rachel Vaughan, Paul Wolf, Jack Van Berkel, Mike and Antonia Radon, John Tait, Jo Fissenden, Cassandra Kitt, Paul Threadgill, Sara Beardmore, Sharyn Goldstien, Darren Kerei Keepa, Larnce Wichman, Geoff Basher, Steve Vaughan, Phil Richardson, Martin Pattison, Shawn Gerrity, Tommaso Alestra.
