Greenpeace Oceans Campaigner Karli Thomas says NZ fish stocks like snapper, hoki, orange roughy, yellowfin and bluefin tuna are all endangered and that the government needs to look at changing its quota system to allow for regeneration of stocks.

View video from Breakfast on TV1 on Monday 8th March.

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John Landrigan | 4th March 2010

We love our beautiful beaches, our gorgeous Gulf islands. So why are we turning them into garbage dumps? John Landrigan and chief photographer Kellie Blizard went to Great Barrier Island to see for themselves.

Hayden Smith (left) and Sam Judd clearing trash from the coastline of Great Barrier Island. KELLIE BLIZARD

We love our beautiful beaches, our gorgeous Gulf islands. So why are we turning them into garbage dumps? John Landrigan and chief photographer Kellie Blizard went to Great Barrier Island to see for themselves.

A plastic bottletop dropped at the top of the Waitakere Ranges floats down through Oratia Stream into Henderson Creek and then Waitemata Harbour.

If it’s raining hard and the bottletop catches the high tides, it might be whipped out to Rangitoto Island within two hours.

If a southeasterly is blowing, it could reach Great Barrier Island’s idyllic beaches inside a week.

This journey is the story of a piece of discarded rubbish hitting the perfect – or, as the case is – imperfect storm so it can contaminate the furthest reaches of our Gulf.

Read full article from The Aucklander.

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AUUC screening of The End of the Line TONIGHT!

Tickets available on the door – bring cash.

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See you all at the club meeting TONIGHT!
6:00pm, Wednesday 10th March 2010
Engineering 3.401

Our first official meeting of the year will kick off with a bang. Hear all about the club, what we do, where we go, how we get there and why we’re the best club at Auckland University! Find out all about the trip to Goat Island this weekend. Meet the people you’ll be diving with all year. Drinks at Shadows after the meeting. You don’t have to be a club member to come along and enjoy the presentation so bring your mates.

We will be accepting new member sign ups at the meeting (LAST CHANCE to get the discounted $20 student membership deal – CASH ONLY).

You can also buy your tickets to our movie screening of The End of the Line.

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Breakfast’s Tamati Coffey checks out some of the action from Auckland University’s Orientation Week on Tuesday 2nd March 2010.

View the Auckland University Underwater Club on the TV#1 Breakfast Show. Go to 2.25 to see AUUC.

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