Contents

COVER : Cultured mussels hang from the ropes of a mussel farm.
CONTENTS - Features :
DEER [Officially, they are introduced pest species that damage native plants, but local shooters love them and visiting overseas hunters pay handsomely for trophy heads. We also farm them and do well from exporting venison. Are deer assets of enemies];
BALLENY ISLANDS [New Zealand is trying to have these desolate, frigid and utterly hostile Antarctic islands and the seas around them made a Marine Protected Area];
KELLY TARLTON [A self-taught diver who was never daunted by a challenge but took it on with a mixture of enthusiasm, determination and improvisation];
DIRE STRAIT - BLUFF OYSTERS [These succulent bivalves thrive best, not out in sand or gravel, but in a living reef composed of bryozoans, sponges, bivalves and ascidians - a fragile structure that years of dredging has almost exterminated];
AQUACULTURE [It yields a lot of food from not much sea, but the only thing that is likely to attract more objections than a proposed marine farm is a marine reserve];
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; VIEWPOINT [high ground contested]; GeoNEWS [comet, new island, dark sky park, 500th albatross]; BLAKE TRUST; WEATHER [Hot and cold]; BOOKS [Shipping out]; MUSEUMS [Tawhiti in Hawera];