to reverse effects of dredging by reintroducing mussels
Now they've taken drastic action to reverse the effects of dredging by returning the humble mussel to the moana.
Mervyn Kerehoma has lived his entire life in the Auckland suburb of Ōrākei and knows this moana like the back of his hand
"The mussels back in the 80s used to hang off the piles over there," Kerehoma tells Newshub.
"The older cousins would come out here and try and get a kai. All us younger ones would try and follow them."
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