\u201cThey are shocked that this has happened, questioning why someone would commit such a crime,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said the alleged incident was deeply disheartening for a small iwi working hard to build economic opportunities<\/a> for its people and the iwi would now face additional costs from recovering and resetting the assets. <\/p>\n Te Aup\u014duri is a relative newcomer to New Zealand\u2019s aquaculture industry.<\/p>\n The mussel farm north of Kait\u0101ia, now in its third year, is part of a long\u2011term aquaculture development that began after the iwi regained control of its Houhora farm following its 2012 Treaty settlement and the return of leases signed in 2018. <\/p>\n Green\u2011lipped mussel farming has become a significant economic pathway for Te Aup\u014duri, with the iwi gathering juvenile mussels (k\u016btai) from Ninety Mile Beach <\/a>and growing them on longlines<\/a> before transferring them to other regions for finishing.<\/p>\n Te Aup\u014duri previously described the farm as a chance to build intergenerational benefits and local employment in an industry forecast to exceed $3 billion nationally by 2035.<\/p>\n Te Aup\u014duri Fisheries Management plans to develop nine marine farms in Northland.<\/p>\n The r\u016bnanga is expected to comment further once more information comes to light. <\/p>\n Sarah Curtis is a news reporter for the Northern Advocate, focusing on a wide range of issues. She has nearly 20 years\u2019 experience in journalism, most of which she spent court reporting in Gisborne and on the East Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey are shocked that this has happened, questioning why someone would commit such a crime,\u201d she said. She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,93034,166408,1558,3595,43714,528,3233,2893,166409,3594,98618,101,121035,111,43,139,529,22258,69,8481,8841,8690,7187,8229,26995,6923],"class_list":{"0":"post-303755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-aquaculture","10":"tag-aupuri","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-by","13":"tag-discovering","14":"tag-far","15":"tag-farm","16":"tag-fear","17":"tag-greenlipped","18":"tag-hit","19":"tag-iwis","20":"tag-left","21":"tag-mussel","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-north","26":"tag-norths","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-reeling","29":"tag-suspected","30":"tag-te","31":"tag-team","32":"tag-they","33":"tag-vandalism","34":"tag-what"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}