{"id":9,"date":"2006-08-24T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T08:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/?p=9"},"modified":"2012-07-07T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T06:35:53","slug":"leigh-and-goat-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Leigh and Goat Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seashore around the Marine Station of Leigh was the first of New Zealands Marine Protected Areas (or MPAs), being established in 1977. It attracts up to 200 000 visitors each year and is a complete &#8222;no take zone&#8220;. Biomass, especially of highly valued fishes and rock lobsters has since increased manyfold. One only needs to stand along the edges of the lava rocks to witness snappers and other fish swim in the amazingly clear water below. Cheers for Melli for picking this destination for our trip, and we will be back (with a mask and snorchel) once it gets warmer..<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/August\/shag.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">A small colony of pied shags or Karuhiruhi (<em>Phalacrocorax varius<\/em>) breed at the Leigh reserve.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/August\/martin.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/August\/melli.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Marine biologists at work leisure, happy as kids in a candy shop.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/August\/Lepsiella.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>Lepsiella scobina<\/em><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/August\/starfish.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Cushion star (<em>Patiriella regularis<\/em>)<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/August\/fish.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">and blue maomao (<em>Scorpis violaceus<\/em>).<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seashore around the Marine Station of Leigh was the first of New Zealands Marine Protected Areas (or MPAs), being established in 1977. It attracts up to 200 000 visitors each year and is a complete &#8222;no take zone&#8220;. Biomass, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/?p=9\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}