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Latest advice from Biosecurity New Zealand on how you can protect the coastal waters we all love from the invasive seaweed exotic caulerpa: A battle is underway at sea this […]

The Ngāti Hei Settlement Bill received its second reading in parliament on the evening of the 9th of April.  The Hon. Paul Goldsmith, Minister of Treaty Claims introduced the Bill. […]

Great to see Whitianga community members, iwi leaders, scientists, experts in mātauranga Māori, rangatahi, MP Scott Simpson, MPI, divers and business people all turn out for Te Wero Nui- the […]

Ngāti Hei, in collaboration with LegaSea, presented their plan to restore the Tipa / Scallop population on Eastern Coromandel today to the Hauraki Gulf Forum (HGF), the statutory co-governance entity […]

Today Ngāti Hei have requested a formal temporary closure (S186A under the Fisheries Act 1996) of the tipa/scallop fisheries in line with the rāhui placed in December 2020.

Opito Bay locals have joined forces with Ngāti Hei to put a voluntary rāhui in place, banning scallop harvesting over summer. The rāhui was put in place by kaumātua Joe […]

Well-known Wharekaho resident and Ngāti Hei kaumātua, Joe Davis, has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List released on Monday […]