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Once famous for its mussel reefs, the Firth of Thames lost these water-cleaning, fish-supporting habitats through dredging and overfishing, which culminated in the collapse of the mussel fishery in the 1960s. A community trust called Revive our Gulf is seeking to reinstate the reefs by dropping tonnes of surplus mussels from nearby aquaculture operations in the hope that they will mat together and form permanent reef structures on the seabed. Mussel farm owner Pete Bull (right) and manager Vaughan Bronlund add a few more tonnes to a site east of Waiheke Island.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 130 November-December 2014.
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2014.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/sea-change/
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 130 November-December 2014.
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2014.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/sea-change/
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