toheroa การใช้

• Traditional seafoods such as toheroa and whitebait were over-harvested.
• Shellfish abundance has declined, especially toheroa, scallops, tuatua, cockles and pipi.
• The toheroa is a very large shellfish with a solid white, elongated shell with the apex at the middle.
• Ahipara Bay was once well known for its toheroa shellfish, but gathering these is restricted due to their near-extinction.
• The toheroa has been an extremely popular seafood, often made into a greenish soup, for which it has an international reputation.
• This beach is home of the famous local shellfish delicacy called the toheroa, which was over-harvested in the 1950s and 1960s causing the population of the shellfish to decline enough that public gathering of the shellfish is now prohibited.