Seasick - Saving the Hauraki Gulf

There are very few places in the world that have life like we have here in the Hauraki Gulf on the back door step of a large city like Auckland.

– An Auckland ferry captain on the marine life on display in the gulf

About a thousand years ago, the Hauraki Gulf was the Yellowstone National Park of the international marine eco-systems.

– A Hauraki Gulf advocate paints a picture of a once pristine environment

Literally see no fish...at all. Nothing.

– A Hauraki Gulf diver describes the condition of the sea floor

It was almost like overnight the flounders disappeared, so when I asked Mum 'what's for breakfast' it was Weet-bix and a bit of off milk. And we're going 'what's wrong? Something's wrong here.'

– A local on how quickly the gulf deteriorated