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Whangaparāoa residents and iwi are calling for a ban on taking seafood from Auckland's Army Bay as they say what was once an "abundance of sea life" was now gone.

Local iwi Ngāti Manuhiri was considering asking the minister for a rāhui or halt to collecting seafood from the area to give it time to regenerate.

Long time Army Bay resident and founder of the Protect Whangaparāoa rock pools group Mark Lenton, said in the past two years there had been mass stripping of the rock pools at Army Bay with large groups turning up, sometimes in mini buses, with all sorts of tools and buckets to harvest all the k

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