Te Rawhiti Marae

Everyone thinks the old maomao are the scourge of the sea.  They¹re the
sooty shearwaters of the underwater world.  Yes in some circumstances I
think they¹d be right, like when you¹re using pillies for bait and they¹re
eaten off the hook by maomao before they even get anywhere near the bottom.
There are basically 3 types of maomao, the pink maomao, the blue maomao, and the grey maomao, which is similar to
the blue only they¹re a greyish colour and smaller.  They swim about in very
large schools, and are usually found around rocky structure, and deep water
pins.  Swimming with them most of the time are trevally, yellowtail
mackerel, and blue mackerel.  My old friend Joe Piripi called maomao
Œeyefish¹ because you invariably catch them in the eye.  I don¹t know why
that is, but my guess is this.  They¹re very smooth and well shaped.  The
only indentation on them is the eye socket.  So as they dart around the
pieces of bait, so the point of the hook accidentally catches them as they

Kia ora ano whanau....I thought you might be interested in this article from the Herald, that John Willoughby brought to our attention the other day. This does add weight to the argument (and my personal belief),that Government agencies do whatever they like and tell you what they want you to hear.  They rubbish anyone who presents any evidence contrary to theirs - and bombard us with so called facts, that are most often, out of date or just plain fabricated.

So take a look at the link and make up your own mind.....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10598798&ref=emailfriend

A great big shout out to Shane and Julia and their team for their great effort in cleaning up the the Bay last weekend... go and check out their website and the pictures they have posted!  Awesome mahi and thanks again to all who were a part of that mission....

http://www.northlanddive.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt0...