Ryan
Contact-less Scallop Dredge
8 weeks is a good time to ban personal dredging and organise a recall of hand dredges. Allow 26 weeks to design and build a technology to replace commercial scallop dredging. This will permanently end the ecosystem failure that occurred in the Hauraki Gulf from scallop dredges. Imagine a restored gulf with as much or more life than ever before.
"Aucklander's can export contact-less scallop dredge machinery and technology to other affected areas in the world to have a global impact and to generate wealth for Auckland in a number of meaningful ways. Not only can we restore the Hauraki Gulf to 100% of pre levels but we can have an influence on the seabed health around the globe. It is a career objective of myself to design a contactless scallop dredge, what better than to be the mayor of Auckland to save 90% of time and effort that is miss utilised getting it approved and organised by others who don't contribute to the design work?"
Let's be part of a global change for technology professionals to enter city management and assist in solving problems within mass management of resources. A phase-out on any and all fishing or harvesting methods that contact with the sea floor is required, and the way forward is to simply replace methods of redundant technology rather than to close industries down. This means designing new nets and new harvesting machinery and mechanisations and to gift them to the industry.
On an intellectual level, we can replace dredging with technological solutions as a path of least resistance that means more fish for all.
Within 1 year we should have Gen 1 and 2 scallop collectors fastened to fishing vessels in commercial operation which will require less energy to run, less energy to hoist clean harvests onboard, less time sorting, and are free from a trail of damage that conventional scallop dredges cause to juvenile scallops, fish eggs, and marine life. Let's take fisheries management of scallops from a 4 to a 10.
