Credit: Chris Sisarich/NZStory
Quantifying seafloor contact
Investigating and reducing interactions between commercial fishing gear and the seafloor
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Credit: Matakana Island © Shellie Evans
A novel approach to aquaculture in Aotearoa New Zealand
Growing community wellbeing with pātiki tōtara/yellowbelly flounder
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Credit: Ōhiwa Harbour, Sustainable Seas
Ecological responses to cumulative effects
This project brings together mātauranga Māori and science to develop new knowledge about cumulative effects
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Communicating risk and uncertainty
Creating guidelines, models and tools that explicitly identify risk and uncertainty, to help make decision-making more inclusive and multi-sectorial.
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Credit: Hamish McCormick
Policy and legislation for EBM
We are developing a research base for policy makers, Māori and stakeholders to navigate the legislative, policy and practice constraints surrounding EBM and any changes required to enable it.
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Credit: Rob Suisted
Scale and EBM
Improving understanding and communication of scale-dependencies for EBM
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Credit: Brady Doak
Modelling restorative economies
Determining the benefits of small-scale, community-based marine restoration initiatives
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Credit: pjmalsbury/iStock
EBFM in the Hauraki Gulf
Developing a monitoring and indicator framework for the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park
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Credit: Leigh Tait/NIWA
Building a seaweed sector
Developing a seaweed sector framework for Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Credit: Ripiro Beach © Taoho Patuawa
Thinking outside the can: Engineering toheroa aquaculture
Developing sustainable, community-based aquaculture in Te Taitokerau
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Credit: Kura Paul-Burke
Pātangaroa hua rau: the bioactive potential of sea stars
Investigating the economic potential of collagen and bioactives from 11-armed sea-stars to manage overpopulations
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Credit: iStock/Ruslan Dashinksky
Seaweed sun defence
Investigating the potential of algal bioactives to prevent and improve the outcomes of sunburn
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Credit: Lamprey and eel weir Whanganui River taken by James McDonald © Alexander Turnbull Library
Whakaika te Moana
Exploring traditional aquaculture practices to inform a hapū-based blue economy
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Credit: Ayushi Kachhara NIWA 2018
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Enabling kaitiakitanga and EBM
Exploring how Kaitiakitanga and EBM can operate alongside one another within coastal and marine environments.
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Credit: Jill Scott NIWA 2018
Perceptions of risk and uncertainty
We are investigating people's perceptions of risk and uncertainty in the marine environment and how these different experiences can improve decision-making about marine resources.
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Credit: Ngāti Kahungunu Inc on Te Matau-a-Maui, Waka Hourua © Desna Whaanga-Schollum, 2013
Indigenising the blue economy
Addressing key barriers that currently prevent Māori from using their marine resources in a more culturally relevant, economically impactful, and environmentally sustainable manner
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Credit: Carolyn Lundquist 2020
Spatially-explicit cumulative effects tools
We are incorporating cumulative effects of multiple stressors (from human activities on land and sea) into decision-making tools.
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Credit: Ngati Manuhiri Settlement Trust
Kohunga Kutai
Creating a sustainable supply of seed mussels using mātauranga Māori
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Credit: Chris Sisarich/NZ Story
Kia tika te hī ika: Exploring fisheries tikanga and mātauranga
Investigating the tikanga of ICP Iwi Partners as it relates to commercial fishing practice
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