This is another cool mantis shrimp that was caught on the wharf. It was caught with a fish hook that hooked in its tail. This mantis shrimp went to the museum. These shrimps are marine pests because they create mass destruction on our shell fish.
More rubbish picked up at the beach. There is always fishing line, hooks and lures being picked up. The fishing line can strangle marine animals.
This boat belongs to the Sea Cleaners. They clean up beaches and oceans around New Zealand.
We are fish taggers which means we tag fish and that provides valuable information about the fish like their size and where they swim.
This is photos of the beach clean ups we do. There is lots of different rubbish.
Sometimes fisherman cellotape their rods to the wharf and leave the cellotape there. After a while when the rain has hit it, it gets soggy, loses its strength and falls of the wharf into the ocean as plastic rubbish.
More rubbish at another clean up.
We found this rubbish in the mangroves, it is a piece of matting and has mangroves trying to grow on it.
This is a skull of a bird that we found at the beach.
At this beach they are building a new sea wall to stop erosion.
They use lots of concrete to help make the sea walls
The sea wall stops the waves hitting the beach too hard.
More photos of the seawalls.
This is solar powered bin that can compact the rubbish in it. It uses the suns light to compact the rubbish down smaller.
This shark was caught and it had lots of sea lice on it. Some of us picked off the sea lice so the shark had a better chance of survival because they were eating him.
These next four photos are about a fish we caught. We were fishing on the wharf and hooked a kahawahi and it darted off and because we weren't holding the rod, the rod went over the side of the wharf and took off. Then a boat came in and we asked them if they could go and get the rod which was a long way out and still floating. They got the rod and the fish and brought it back to shore and gave it too us.
The seagulls are watching us fishing.
At a fishing competition around the water front.
A cool picture of the ocean feeding the little river at high tide.
We dropped a go pro down where we were fishing and saw these cool yellow coloured fish with a black dot on. We google what they were as we didn't know.
We were fishing and the shag was fishing as well and trying to steal our bait.
We went fishing and the people beside hooked up an octopus. This is a pretty cool photo.
A group of us went drone fishing and we caught snapper and a hammerhead shark.
More rubbish at the beach.
These rusty pipes were at the beach. They are dangerous but we couldn't get them out.
Lots of tangled fishing line. This is not good for the birds or marine animals as they get stuck in it.
One of the sea walls that was built to stop erosion. The wall stops the waves hitting hard on the beach.
This is the work place for the men doing the beach restoration.
A group of us went drone fishing. It was fun.
