Post Listing Layouts – Page 15 – Great Barrier Island News – Barrier.news – Aotea Great Barrier Island News

List - Vertical Post - Page 15

Ecology - Aotea Green

Convoy of fishers protests new Hauraki Gulf restrictions

A convoy of boats will travel across Auckland on November 22 in protest of the new Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act, which came into force last weekend. The Act restricts recreational fishing in 12 high-protection areas of the…

Community News

Aotea Iwi Open Major Exhibition on Outer Hauraki Gulf

Members of Ngāti Rehua Ngātiwai ki Aotea travelled to Tāmaki Makaurau this week to proudly mark the opening of the immersive exhibition, ‘Ngā Huhua: Abundance’, at the New Zealand Maritime Museum. The special opening event took place on Thursday evening,…

The RNZYS property at Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Island — including the historic Lidgard House (left) — is set to be sold, despite opposition from some members.

Tech - Aotea Green

Kawau Island Sale Going Ahead, Says RNZYS

The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has rejected a push by dissenting members to overturn its decision to sell prime waterfront property at Kawau Island, asserting the move is constitutionally out of their hands. In correspondence seen by Barrier Times,…

Composite image of Charlie and Winnie Blackwell above the Kaitoke flats on Great Barrier Island, showing the mānuka scrub and swamp area at the centre of the Council’s investigation.

Community News

‘We Feel Like Murderers’: Council Raid Terrifies 90-Year-Old Barrier Farmers

For 170 years, the Blackwell family has not just farmed the land on Great Barrier Island/Aotea; they have embodied the island’s enduring spirit of self-reliance. But for patriarch Charlie (89) and matriarch Winnie Blackwell (90), the latest confrontation with Auckland…

Masonry - Page 15

This bright-green invasive caulerpa seaweed is smothering the delicate marine ecosystem on Great Barrier Island. Photo / Glenn Edney

Caulerpa bans lifted in key bays, but whole island now a controlled area

The Ministry for Primary Industries has eased anchoring bans in several Aotea harbours after the invasive seaweed Caulerpa began dying off in…

Ecology - Aotea Green

Plans laid for New Zealand Spearfishing Championships on Barrier

Photo / Daniel Torobekov

New hardwood benches sit beneath a steel-framed canopy at Tryphena Wharf, giving passengers shelter while they wait for ferries or collect freight.

Community News

Tryphena Wharf reopens after $8.3m rebuild

Great Barrier Islanders are welcoming the reopening of Tryphena Wharf, the island’s busiest port, which came back into service last week after…

Crowds once packed Port Fitzroy for the Mussel Fest, with stalls serving half a tonne of kūtai and the old Jet Raider ferry delivering day-trippers direct from Auckland.

Community News

Mussel festival makes a summer comeback to Port Fitzroy

The island’s much-loved mussel festival is back on the calendar, with a refreshed, family-friendly format set for Saturday 10 January 2026, 10am–7pm,…