spat harvesting

  Chris and Rhonda Hensley at Houhora, 40kms north of Kaitaia, are spat collectors.  Chris, who was raised at Ngataki, and Ronda, also manage a mussel farm and have a feijoa orchard. “I began helping collect mussel spat for distribution to mussel farmers with Dad in 1978,” says Chris. “Until then MAF had been the […]