The support for banning bottom contact fishing techniques is growing. 

Local community initiatives such as rāhui on shellfish species by Ngāti Hei and Ngāti Paoa, and the Coromandel Restoration Programme have only heightened the conversation of the urgency to ban destructive fishing methods that are destroying our seafloor habitats. 

And just today, public consultation has become available for a two-year closure on all scallop harvesting, initiated by Ngāti Hei.