Frequently Asked Questions

How do you plan to succeed?

By building a large and diverse Alliance of organisations and individuals unprecedented in the Hauraki Gulf’s management history representative of the people who live, work and recreate within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park and the creatures that dwell in and around it’s waters.

We will unite them in a campaign to petition the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries to use his decision making power to remove these bottom contact fishing practices and begin a meaningful revival of the health and wellbeing of the Hauraki Gulf.

What is the Hauraki Gulf Alliance hoping to achieve?

The phasing out of all mobile bottom contact fishing methods within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park and to reverse the decades of abuse and degradation which these methods have caused. This means phasing out the use of fishing methods such as bottom trawling, scallop dredging, Danish seining and bottom contact precision harvesting by 2024, from the entire Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, using section 11 of the Fisheries Act. This decision does not require new legislation and can be implemented by Cabinet approval.

Who makes up the Hauraki Gulf Alliance?

The Hauraki Gulf Alliance began with the coming together of New Zealand’s foremost environmental organisations as we collectively realised that unless we stand together as one we will never see bottom trawling and dredging removed until the last fish or shellfish has disappeared. No matter what our political or cultural divides are, these fishing methods must stop. On that we agree. 

These founding organisations make up the start of the Hauraki Gulf Alliance - LegaSea, New Zealand Underwater Association (NZUA), Greenpeace Aotearoa, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society (Forest & Bird), The New Zealand Sport Fishing Council (NZSFC), Environmental Defence Society (EDS), WWF - New Zealand, The Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand (ECO), New Zealand Angling and Casting Association (NZACA) Yachting New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS).

We invite you to join this Alliance whether you are a club, society, organisation or business.