Mainly found on New Zealand's North Island, this large clam treasured by Māori coastal communities nearly became extinct due to exploitation. But now, it might be on the way back. As food obsessions ...
Digging for shellfish is a summer tradition in Northland, but taking prohibited toheroa or excessive amounts of tuatua is likely to result in prosecution. Photo / NZME Fisheries New Zealand is ...
MISSION: Keen conservationist Betsy Young has been working for some years to re-establish the beds. Many years of observing and gathering information on the depletion of toheroa on Te Oneroa-a-Tohe ...
Fisheries officers are appealing to the public to ensure they’re up to speed with the rules around collecting toheroa now that the rare shellfish are making a comeback to 90 Mile Beach. Ministry for ...
People gathering the bountiful tuatua this season may accidentally be picking up the rare and treasured toheroa shellfish instead. Ministry for Primary Industries honorary fisheries officers say ...
Fisheries New Zealand is considering prosecutions after people were caught this summer illegally harvesting protected toheroa and taking excessive numbers of tuatua. Northland manager Swazi Lal said ...
A Western Southland man caught with 86 toheroa near Tuatapere in January has been fined $1100. Taylor Unahi, 75, of Tuatapere, was apprehended with the shellfish in the back of his Toyota by Fisheries ...
Several hundred toheroa on Orepuki beach were lost in a mass die-back, the first of its type since the early 1990s. "In scientific terms, we call this an ecological catastrophe - a short, sharp event ...
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