date:Jul 12, 2012
t that farm further towards Tuhitarata Bay more than 10 years ago, and have since been in dispute with the council about how to rectify it.
Residents in nearby bays opposed the application, saying 95 per cent of Beatrix Bay was already covered by marine farms, and that had a serious impact on the diversity of sea life. Mussel farms had vacuumed up all the plankton which meant there was not the shellfish that used to grow prolifically in the area before the farms started in the 1980s.